My photographic journey took a new route recently. I had been scared of scale focus and viewfinder cameras for years - I mean how would one shoot people and portraits with a sha...
12 April, 2023
Olympus XA2 – A Brief Guide to my Every Day Carry Camera
The Olympus XA2 is tiny, it is quick to turn on, it's zone focus, and has a brilliant lens. In my humble opinion, it is the best EDC (every day carry) and travel camera, and a g...
31 October, 2022
Voigtländer Vito IIa Review – Going Full Circle – By Tony Warren
In 1955, having attained the grand old age of 16 and somehow managed to pass 8 of the 9 GCE O-levels I had sat, I received a neat little blue and silver box as a reward for one ...
28 October, 2022
Olympus Trip 35 on Holiday – Part 1 – Keeping it Simple in New Zealand – by David Hume
The Olympus Trip 35 is a compact 35mm viewfinder camera released in the late 1960s that sold millions of units and had a long production run. It’s a famous benchmark camera for ...
1 October, 2022
Voigtländer Vito CL – The Dad Cam – By Hans Gastafsson
I can't recall any family vacation, outing, gettoghether when I was young that my dad didn't have his Voigtländer with him. It almost seemed an integral part of him. Not that he...
Using the Bessa L for a week in Berlin alongside a Nikon FE2 brought home all the things I don’t like about the Bessa, as well as reminding me why I’ll never get rid of it. In t...
22 April, 2022
Kodak Retina 118 – More Than a Camera – By Lisa Murphy
As a professional archivist, understanding the context and provenance of archival material is hugely important. When I look at my camera collecting, I have applied a similar cri...
28 January, 2022
“I am Lonely” Said Vinnie the Voigtländer Vito BL – by Andrew Morang
Vinnie, the little Voigtländer Vito BL camera, shares shelf space with his friend, Spottie, the Honeywell Spotmatic.
Both feel a bit neglected. After all, one can only use so m...