16 May, 2026
One More “Robert Frank in Butte, Montana” Story
Not long after my wife, Darby, and I returned from last summer’s Portland-to-St. Louis road trip — which included one night at the Finlen Hotel in Butte — I started thinking how...
27 February, 2026
The Miniature Camera Monthly
Above: Cover photo of the August 1939 issue of Ray Bolger for it’s feature article on the new about-to-be-released movie The Wizard of Oz My wife retired a couple years ag...
30 October, 2025
Robert Frank’s Leica (Well, Close)
After our recent road trip, which included a night at the Hotel Finlen in Butte, Montana, and a chance to photograph the window where Robert Frank made one of the 83 images incl...
20 October, 2025
Prakticas and Their Associated Lenses – Building A Film Camera and Lens System At Reasonable Cost
The post that Matt Reverzani gave us about his work with a Praktica L prompted me to write an article about this range of cameras. Now the Prakticas were always ‘bottom of the p...
1 October, 2016
A brief history of Reid & Sigrist – Guest post by Wilson Laidlaw
In the great British tradition of “Keep calm and muddle through”, during WW2, British official war photographers had used a whole hodge podge of assorted cameras, ranging from l...