Hamish’s recent foray into the world of SLRs with his project involving a Nikon F75 struck a chord with me. While I am big on compact cameras, I have quite a few of them that I’...
28 March, 2018
Leicaflex Standard Review – by Jason S. Ganz
The word Leica and film often brings up precision, manual operation, best-in-the-world optics, and ideations that shooting a Leica automatically makes one a professional – if no...
10 March, 2018
Nikon FM3a Review – My desert Island camera – by Anil Mistry
Last year I wrote a short piece for 35mmc as part of the “5 frames with” series. The camera I used was my Nikon Fm3a with the Nikkor 50mm f1.2 AIS lens- a combination that I jus...
4 March, 2018
Nikon F75 Project – Part 6 – preferences & ideologies
Having “upgraded” from my Nikon F75 to a Nikon F80, this little project has definitely come to an end. In fact, with the F75 being deposited on a particular shelf at work that u...
18 February, 2018
Nikon F75 Project – Part 5 – An afternoon with a zoom lens (and a roll of Portra 800)
Short of lenses attached to various point & shoot cameras it’s been ages since I’ve shot with a zoom. I am of course a prime lens snob. Blah, blah, limitations, blah, blah, smal...
13 January, 2018
Nikon F75 Project – Part 4 – The SLR viewfinder, fundamentally flawed and entirely outdated…?
The biggest issue I have is with the concept of the SLR is the viewfinder. It seems to me that the technology around the SLR viewfinder was flawed from day one, and has now been...
24 December, 2017
Nikon F75 Project – Part 3 – Kodak Portra 800 & Two competing brains at the Christmas Fayre
I talked around the way I think differently with different cameras in my hands in my post about the Lure of the Uncomplicated camera. How the Nikon F75 impacted on my thought pr...
The one feature I’ve always desired from a compact camera is a 50mm lens. I would estimate that around 75% of my photography is shot with a normal focal length. This is actually...