Camera Geekery: Konica C35 FD Review A nice long guest review for you all to enjoy. Johan Van Huyssteen shares his experience with one of the great fixed lens rangefinders. Sit down with a nice drink and enjoy. It’s too heavy! My first 35mm film camera was a properly banged-up Fujica ST605N, paired with a surprisingly […]
Camera Geekery: Plaubel Makina 67 It was the spring of 2008 and I was aimlessly exploring the grounds of Shinjuku Gardens when I spotted a round sunglasses wearing old man with a moustache and those distinctive tips in his hair. It was the legend himself Nobuyoshi Araki doing the same, albeit with a peculiar hunk […]
Camera Geekery: Evolution of Intent in Modifying Cameras As you know, I have worked on some very interesting custom cameras in the past, but the cameras I have been working on with Horatio Tan from @streetsilhouettes have been on another level. And they are polarizing. Horatio takes this opportunity to explain his vision. Evolution of […]
Camera Geekery: JCH x Thirdculture Pins As some of you might know, I am pretty active on Instagram, and recently I came across the work of @thirdculture. And I am really glad I did, because we came up with these awesome pins. In case you are not familiar with Jean-Paul’s work, he has been making […]
Camera Geekery: The Nandha Hotel in Bangkok Last month I was lucky enough to be invited to Bangkok by Monogram Asia to give a talk about cameras and photography at their 8/8 Street Photography Workshop. I met lots of cool people and had a really good time. But one of the definite highlights of the […]
Camera Geekery: Solarcan Now I am not usually a Kickstarter kind of guy, but I do rather like this one. Solarcan is actually already nearly funded, but a little push wouldn’t hurt for this cool product. I quite fancy one myself. Born from a love of photography, art & astronomy Solarcan is a unique camera […]
Canon 35mm film SLRs compared Today we have a great guest article that was written by Dank Spangle and first featured on his blog. If you like Canon SLRs then you are going to love this. A side by side of some of the greats. I’ve got a small collection of Canon 35mm film SLRs. Here’s what […]
Camera Geekery: Minolta XD11 Review A guest review of a fantastic classic camera. The Minolta cameras were solid performers in their day, with an excellent array of lenses, and now many of them are cheap as chips. Come and read Jeb Inge’s review. Camera Review: Minolta XD11 By Jeb Inge When I made the switch […]
Camera Geekery: Voigtlander Bessa F/6.3 Rebuild by John Kossik Ever wondered how to hack an old camera to work with more modern films? Well Joh Kossik knows how, and he shares his experience with us. This is very cool. Be warned, this post contained naked cameras and real maths. Voigtlander Bessa F/6.3 Rebuild I Description […]
Camera Geekery: Hacked Instax Mini Recently I instagrammed an interesting camera I had seen. A heavily modified Fuji Instax, that has been designed to work with 4×5 lenses. Loads of people asked about the camera so I found out a bit more for you all. My good friend Vishal at CameraFilmPhoto always has some cool […]
