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As the official release of the 7Artisans 35mm f/2 looms, I’ve been getting excited about it and have taken to using the prototype I’ve had kicking around for a while. Mechanical...
It is probably easiest if I just come out and say it like this: The XPAN will forever hold a special place in my heart.
It's been two years since I've owned it, and roughly 200...
6 April, 2018
Reflecting on some analogue memories – by Rob MacKillop
I gave a review of the Hexar here which was wholly positive, and Hamish gave his more negative thoughts here. Suffice to say I still have the camera. Yes, the menu system (if we...
5 April, 2018
5 Frames with a Kodak Retina IIc – By Howard Dale
This is one of my all time favorite cameras. Approx. 136,000 were made between 1954 - 1957. Kodak acquired German manufacturer Nagel in order to produce a camera that could comp...
4 April, 2018
5 Frames with The Contax RTSii – by Anil Mistry
I've been intrigued by Contax SLRs for a while so I eventually caved and got an RTSii and I'm blown away. It's beautiful. a Porsche designed solid hunk of metal with a luxuriou...
A few years ago my parents got me my first own camera - a Leica Vlux 114. Before that I just shot my pictures with cameras, which I lent from them. Soon after that I bought a Le...
2 April, 2018
Photographing Punks on Polaroid – by Simon King
I've always thought of myself as an outsider - I think a lot of photographers do. It makes it easier for us to introspect; to look at the world from a perspective a little more ...
The Agfa xx35 series of cameras (in this case the 1035) and the Plaubel Makina 67 are both wonderful examples of what what appears to be German functionalist industrial design. ...
