It might surprise many people who still have a fondness for film that the number one best selling film today is Fuji’s Instax instant film. A small rectangular instant film, not unlike Polaroid’s classic film, Instax cameras are hot items for teenagers and millennials for the “MAGIC” of seeing a…
This week’s featured post is a review for the Coronet REX Flash by Alan Duncan at Canny Cameras. I love reviews like this of little known and basic cameras as they are often overlooked on many camera review sites and blogs. I’ve always made it a point here on my…
The site move to Bluehost occupied a bit of my time (although not nearly as much as I had thought), but I considered skipping a Recommended Reading post for this week, but I am glad I didn’t as there was a good selection of worthwhile posts this week to talk…
Another historical lens article by Cheyenne Morrison, and another post of the week. I gotta hand it to James Tocchio, owner of Casual Photophile for convincing Cheyenne to write these highly detailed and fascinating historical lens articles for him as these things are right up my alley. Cheyenne goes back…
This week’s featured post is a very well written and thorough dive into Nikon’s Pre-AI (sometimes called non-AI) lens system. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, AI stands for “Automatic Indexing” and was a way in which the position of the aperture ring could be automatically coupled to…
This week’s featured review is for a very cool camera that I am in the process of shooting as well, the Zeiss-Ikon “Bullseye” Contarex SLR from Japan Camera Hunter. German manufacturers are well known for making complex machines. Whether you’re talking about cameras, automobiles, or airplanes, there’s a saying that…
I am a big fan of Australian photographer Cheyenne Morrison after reading several of his posts online and listening to his appearance on Episode 38 of the Classic Lenses Podcast. I always look forward to anything with his name on it, and this week, we have a doozy! Not only…
For this week’s Recommended Reading post, I’m revising the format slightly as the WordPress embed feature doesn’t seem to be working for me. In Jim Grey’s regular series “Operation Thin the Herd”, Jim revisits those cameras in his collection he hasn’t touched in a while and shoots another roll of…
Well the secret is out. Thanks a lot James. I’ve been wanting to add more Wirgin Edixa Reflexes to my collection for some time, but a combination of high prices and poor condition have kept my collection to just one model. But after reading this excellent article that covers both…
A modern (made within the last 20 years) manual focus rangefinder with TTL metering and a Copal Square vertically traveling focal plane shutter in a compact body using the Leica Thread Mount?!?! Take. My. Money. It always surprises me after the years I’ve been collecting and researching old cameras to…
There’s been a lot of crowdfunded photography related projects lately, many of which attempt to introduce new cameras or other photographic tools of questionable value, but this latest is one that I could actually see myself trying out. It’s a dark room timer that not only keeps track of time,…
This week’s featured article has a headline that reads like hundreds of others out there, but if you take the time to read it, is a hauntingly personal retrospective on true events of James Tocchio’s photographic journey. It’s an unexpectedly beautiful and brutally honest article that I know James had…
