20 March, 2024
Nikon F4 Review – A Design Revolution
Some cameras are ergonomic and have a continuity of style with other cameras in a given system. This has been true basically since the beginning of mass-produced cameras of almo...
6 November, 2023
Nikon D700 – a 2023 Review of a Classic Full Frame DSLR
I used to shoot a Nikon D700 professionally as a second camera to a D3, and later a D800. The D3 was the peak of my positive relationship with Nikon, and the D800 was the last N...
30 October, 2023
Nikkormat FT Mini-Review – Back to Basics
Nikomat or Nikkormat? Actually, both are ok to use, in order to describe one of the heftiest (but beautiful) cameras I have ever owned and handled. Well, apart from the Pentax 6...
9 October, 2023
Nikon FM and How it Became my “Do Anything” Camera
I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of getting to understand one camera so well that it becomes an extension of oneself. Thus, some years ago, I set out to find this m...
28 August, 2023
Nikon FM2 Review – Its significance and modern appeal since 1984
I was hired once to take some portraits of a young woman. I asked her to give me a few portrait examples that she liked. To my surprise, she said that she liked “The Afgh...
Sometimes, in the world of photography, certain cameras hold a special place in our hearts that goes beyond their technical specifications. They become vessels of cherished memo...
In 1973, the year of the Minolta XM's launch, Minolta had been serving the consumer market very successfully for several years with the SR-T . There, it was a hard-to-beat queen...
28 December, 2022
Nikon FM2 Camera Review – Joy in Simplicity – By Ted Ayre
Like many millennials I grew up in the 90’s with family point-and-shoots, quickly watching them disappear for digital compacts in the 00’s, and then those being ditched for the ...
