Five Photography Products We Want to See Rise From The Dead
It’s Halloween, All Hallows’ Eve, that ghoulish night of the year dedicated to remembering the dead. It’s also the night of the year in which the unlikely reanimation of rotting…
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We Review the Polaroid Originals OneStep 2 Instant Camera
The OneStep 2, the new instant camera from recently formed Polaroid Originals, has arrived. We wrote about the importance of this back when the big announcement dropped, but if you’re…
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Pentax Spotmatic Camera Review – One of the Longest-Lived Mechanical Cameras Ever Made
Volkswagen produced the Beetle in one form or another for more than six decades. Six decades of building one of the most simple, spartan family cars on the planet. And…
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Zeiss Ikon ZM 35mm Rangefinder Review – Everything a Rangefinder Should Be
A few months ago, I sang the praises of the Zeiss C Biogon 35/2.8 M mount lens. In that earlier review, I spoke to my wife’s sixth sense and how…
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Jupiter-12 35mm F/2.8 Lens Review – Playing Russian Roulette with a Zeiss Copy
There is perhaps no more controversial, polarizing, and confusing subject in vintage photography than Russian lenses. For as many articles and forum threads that lionize the Russian lenses as dirt…
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Five Great Soviet Cameras – Guest Post by Colonel Troskovoynicovsky
Greetings, Western imperialist sow. I am Colonel Troskovoynicovsky writing from within the great Soviet Republic. Your days are numbered, but be joyful temporarily, for while we design your inevitable collapse…
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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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