This is a follow-up piece to one I wrote here about what to look for when buying cheap compacts. In essence that was about the delights of $5 compacts with prime lenses, flash a...
I got my first camera in 1966, it was a plasticky grey Ilford Sprite. I took mostly terrible photos on this little camera, but some were quite good, capturing the look of the ti...
I was asked the other day to share my thoughts on the ongoing retro camera design trend for an article that has since been published on Lifewire, titled ‘What’s with all these C...
I never bought a new camera in my whole life. In my teens I started taking pictures with my father's old Agfa Silette. Three speeds, manual focusing, no light meter, but setting...
17 June, 2021
Rediscovering the SLR with a Nikon F – By Hern Tan
I have never really gotten along well with reflex cameras. No, this is not some grudge borne out of spite from my quest to reattain my 20/20 vision of yesteryear, and subsequent...
11 June, 2021
Heresy! Get with the Program (Mode) – By Bob Janes
Some photographers are slow to embrace change. Automatic exposure took a surprising time to get established. Part of this would have been a because photographers wanted to stay ...
3 June, 2021
My Journey Shooting 85 Analog Cameras (and Writing a Book about it) – By Christof Bircher
It all started with a Canon A1 I picked up from my dealer for $20 a few years ago. And – I almost don’t dare to say – ended trying out 85 different analog cameras, shooting a fe...
Just before christmas an opportunity came up that I couldn’t refuse.
A camera that I have been researching since I began in film photography came up for sale in the Facebook fi...
