11 October, 2026
5 frames with a 1933 Leica II
I have got infected by BLV. Here you ask, “what’s BLV?”. I tell you, Barnack Leica Virus is real. Once infected, the only cure is to get a Barnack Leica, wait a second, may be t...
4 October, 2026
Olympus IS-5000 – Never go back five
Second look at an Olympus IS-5000 film camera from 2002.
29 July, 2026
The Town that Adopted a Queen
It’s a quiet early afternoon in Balchik, a Bulgarian small town on the coast of the Black Sea. I’ve been staying here for the last 4 or 5 days and to be honest, I found it to be...
25 June, 2026
5 frames with a Leica M4-P
My first Leica was an M4-2, I used it extensively but sold it to help pay for my first digital Leica, an M9 in black. After a while, I missed the relatively quiet “Click&#...
16 June, 2026
Three Films, One Orchestra, One Weekend
Orchestras run on two things. Music and food. Most documentation skips the food. Concert halls, polished instruments, formal attire — that’s what ends up in the frame. But...
9 June, 2026
5 Frames with a Rolleicord IV
My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 50, which I had won in a photography competition as a teenager. The competition was organized by Kodak to promote their new 126 film cartr...
6 June, 2026
Airports on Delta 100
Beginning in the late 1980’s and through to 2013 I traveled almost weekly in my job shooting travel features for a large magazine based in the South of the US. I didn’t have a m...
30 May, 2026
5 frames with a Voigtländer BESSA L
What sort of camera is this? It is not a rangefinder; it has no built-in viewfinder, but it does feature integrated TTL metering with LED lights. It accommodates interchangeable...