I am a musician and have been spending quite a lot of time in Krakow, especially as it's a great city for jazz. For the last…
Leica 50mm f/2 Summicron DR – Plum Blossoms – By Steven Bleistein
April 3, 2020About a month before Japan’s world-famous cherry blossom season in late March, is the lesser-known plum blossom season in late February. Plum blossoms in Japan are…
5 Candid Portraits in Paris with a Leica M3, Summicron 50mm f/2, and Kodak T-MAX 100 Film – By Steve Bleistein
July 9, 2019I love Paris. While I live in Japan, my business often takes me to Europe, and whenever it does, I always spend a weekend or so…
5 Candid Portraits in Tsukiji Pushing T-Max 100 with a Leica M6J and Summicron 50mm f/2- By Steven Bleistein
January 9, 2019Tsukiji is one of the few remaining neighborhoods in Tokyo where you can get a sense of what the city was like in the 1950s and…
I've returned to film photography fairly recently, having impulsively bought a Yashica TL-Super (plus three lenses and a parts body) for $30 at a garage sale…
Leica 50mm f/2 Summicron v3 – Cameraworks Restoration Review
December 10, 2017A few years ago a mate of mine bought a v3 50mm Leica Summicron that could be best described as a bit of a dog. Optically,…
I shot quite a few rolls over Christmas, but a few got left in cameras halfway through. In the case of this film, it got left…
These train carriages are parked up on a disused bit of railway line just inside the Hartlebury Trading estate near Kidderminster. Quite beautiful in their decay…