Hawkesmill Camera Straps – Possibly the Most Luxurious Straps on the Planet
What can we possibly say about a camera strap? After all, if it keeps your camera off the ground, it’s doing its job. Where’s the angle? This was my main…
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Fujifilm XF 23mm F/2 WR Lens Review – The Fuji X Series’ Best Kit Lens?
Lens names seldom roll off the tongue. Most sport an alphabet soup of millimeters and f-numbers, and while these tell us most of what we need to know about a…
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Seizing the Means of Production with the Soviet Zenit-E 35mm Film Camera
I spent the better part of a recent Saturday traveling and photographing a number of towns in central Virginia. In the town of Orange it was a vintage Coca Cola…
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Lomo’Instant Wide Instant Camera Review
Few things in this world are as fun as an instant camera. Just try holding back a smile while watching a camera spit out a white piece of paper on…
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Carl Zeiss 45mm F/2 Planar in Contax G Mount Review – an Almost Perfect Legacy Lens
The Carl Zeiss Contax G Mount Planar 45mm F/2 prime lens is, without bluster, amazing. It’s helped me make some of my favorite images in years. It’s also irritating. Never…
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The Canon P is A Beautiful, Functional 35mm Rangefinder Worth Shooting Today
What adjectives describe a modern Canon camera? Rugged? Purposeful, maybe? I’ll bet beautiful seldom comes to mind. That’s not a knock. Canon today produces cameras that survive when guys like…
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Fujifilm’s Instax Square SQ10 Solves the Problem of the Instant Camera
When I first heard that a new Instax camera was coming from Fujifilm, I was skeptical. Another instant camera pumping out tiny, expensive prints, I thought. Great. But I was wrong. Fujifilm’s…
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Eastman Kodak Double-X (5222) – a Cinematic Black and White Film
The word “cinematic” can be pretty vague. It’s one of those meaningless filler words that can be applied to anything and that tells you absolutely nothing about what you’re looking…
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Desert Island Cameras No. 05 – Pentax Edition with Ned Bunnell, Former President of Pentax U.S.
Desert Island Cameras is back with another very special guest. Last time, we picked our one-and-only Leicas with Bellamy Hunt of Japan Camera Hunter, and today we’re picking our favorite…
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Why I Got Rid of My Camera Collection and Why You Should Too – Maybe
It took me just over two years of shooting a different camera every week to realize I was ruining myself on cameras. Partly to blame was the simple fact that…
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Zeiss 50mm F/1.5 Sonnar versus F/2 Planar – a Film Shooter’s Opinion
When it comes to M mount 50mm lenses the choices are plentiful, and quite often the costs are high. Single coat, multi coat, ‘crons, ‘nars – the overwhelming abundance of…
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Featured Photophile No. 010 – Yoshi’s Japanese Street Photography
Featured Photophile, our recurring segment showcasing talented amateur photographers is back with more photo inspiration for you. And this time we’re bringing you the work of a really talented young shooter…
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5 American Cameras Worth Owning and Shooting
Today is the 4th of July, and while I’m no history professor, I at least know that this is the day we Americans celebrate the resistance and subsequent victory over…
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Topcon RE Super 35mm Film SLR Camera Review – The Greatest Loser
History, according to a popular truism, is written by the victors. And so it is in the world of cameras. Our victors? Nikon, Canon, Leica, etc. Info on those manufacturers…
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