23 November, 2021
Ten Years Gone: The Ricoh GXR
I have always been a film photographer: I grew up when there was only film and realised, pretty early in the digital age, that the tens of thousands of hours I had already spent...
16 September, 2021
A Tale of Two Compacts – Emotion and Camera Choice – By Octavia Vans
This article originally began its life as separate reviews of two different not-so-compact cameras. However at some point they merged into a comparison, and then evolved, like a...
I was asked the other day to share my thoughts on the ongoing retro camera design trend for an article that has since been published on Lifewire, titled ‘What’s with all these C...
I never bought a new camera in my whole life. In my teens I started taking pictures with my father's old Agfa Silette. Three speeds, manual focusing, no light meter, but setting...
11 June, 2021
Heresy! Get with the Program (Mode) – By Bob Janes
Some photographers are slow to embrace change. Automatic exposure took a surprising time to get established. Part of this would have been a because photographers wanted to stay ...
Just before christmas an opportunity came up that I couldn’t refuse.
A camera that I have been researching since I began in film photography came up for sale in the Facebook fi...
There are two types of film cameras for me that hold a really special experience, Rangefinders, and Twin-Lens Reflex’. I find that especially the latter offers me a very unique ...
16 December, 2020
Why the Nikon F6 died (and What the Prospects of a Replacement are) – By Nik Stanbridge
There have been a few articles recently musing on the demise of the Nikon F6 35mm film camera to mark the fact that Nikon has withdrawn it from sale after a 16-year run. In writ...