Following on from my Canon Demi C review, I wanted to write something about the orphaned lens that came about from me only shooting it with the 50mm. Having that nice lens gathe...
I really enjoyed Hamish's recent articles about the Sony A7RII, and the one regarding the never ending “film vs digital” debate. To me, these two articles felt as though they we...
In the last post in this series I talked bout how viable it is to use an unmodified Jupiter-8 on a Leica rangefinder - following on from that, I thought I might like to find out...
For a good while now I have been fascinated by the idea of hacking compact camera lenses to work on my Leica cameras. So far this has taken me down a few paths, with one end of ...
My first Leica was an M2 in 1959 it came with a 5cm 2.8 Elmar to which were added over time a 9cm and a 13.5cm. I never did get a wide angle 3.5cm, but what a nice viewfinder th...
A few weeks ago I was contacted by a chap called Matt who suggested it might be nice to create a list of reputable camera repairers. Specifically film camera repairers.
Rather...
If you have a broken Yashica T4 and lack the budget or inclination to send it for an all singing all dancing MS conversion, this strikes me as pretty much the most obvious alter...
In the last part of this story I was deliberating over the choice of converting the Yashica T4's Tessar vs the Nikon L35's Sonnar to M-mount. Whilst I was dead set on the latter...
