The Shitty Camera Challenge is the antidote to photography competitions. Instead of celebrating the best that cameras have to offer it celebrates the worst. You have a Leica, fo...
6 March, 2023
Sony DSC-R1 Review – A Surprisingly Usable Vintage Digital Camera – By Matthew Bigwood
The Sony DSC-R1 is one of many cameras on a list of ‘I would have liked this when it was new, but I couldn’t justify or afford it’, but I did manage to track down one on eBay la...
22 July, 2022
Fujifilm X-Pro1 – Digital Infrared Zone Focus Viewfinder Camera – First Outing – by Agata Urbaniak
“I did a bad thing” I responded to my partner as they asked me what’s in the newly delivered parcel I received last Saturday morning. I really wasn’t...
Or, twenty rolls of Ektachrome and the lies we tell ourselves. Or, how to be wrong. Preliminaries Why this mad thing? I’m a photographer who uses film and makes prints in ...
Me and my family recently spent a week driving around North Wales in my wife’s van. Me being me, I wanted to take a lot of photos. I also took a lot of cameras. 3 more than I ac...
I remember the immense hype around the Nikon Df just before its release in 2013 - teaser campaigns; leaked specs, mystery mock-ups. Then came a tsunami of derision and disappoin...
22 March, 2022
Digital Nostalgia – 5 Early Digital Cameras from between 2001 and 2005 – By Bob Janes
The world spins. Everything comes around. Eventually we start to get misty-eyed about stuff that seems to have only just left the room. Yes, I'm at that point. I’m about to get ...
21 March, 2022
The Rise of the Vintage Digital Camera
A good camera is a good camera, right? That’s how it should be. Of course, in the world of digital cameras where the image making technology is built into the camera, how long a...