I often get accused of writing click bait titles. I’m really not sure what people think the purpose of an article title is if it’s not designed to get people to read it, but non...
Hi there. I’m Meifei Tang. I live in Shenzhen, China. I've loved taking photos since I was a child. My first camera was the Keystone compact camera. My parents gave it to me on ...
I had an opportunity to own and use Contax S2 together with 3 lenses (Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm F1.7 C/Y, Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 85mm F2.8 C/Y and Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 28mm F2.8...
The best camera, they say, is the camera you get for free. I still don’t know who “they” are, but I do know that I found my camera in the back of a dusty closet when I was movin...
Your kilo of soviet metal, your light meter which stopped working decades ago, your dark, murky viewfinder designed to just miss focus, your rewind mechanism engineered to give ...
If you've read any of my previous contributions to this website, you may recall that I started my photographic journey with a pair of Praktica's. My first was a Praktica MTL3 an...
It's like the deodorant Secret: “Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman.”...
The Nikon EM perfect! I love it. There's nothing it can't do. Well... that's an exaggeration...
You may find it odd that I am starting an article about a Fujica ST-901 SLR by writing about an Asahi Pentax SV instead, but please bear with me.