Nepal Kodachrome Adventure by Andrew Kirkby It has taken me a year of thinking and reviewing my images before i could get this together for your readers. I think that Kodachrome enabled me to take pictures reminiscent of the National Geographic magazines which inspired me to pick up a camera as a teenager (my father [Read More...]
Wow! – Must see photos – Russia in color, a century ago Someone posted this link to my Facebook wall and after I checked it out I knew I had to share it here. It is a collection of amazing photographs taken between 1909 and 1912 by Sergei Mikhalovic Prokudin-Gorskii (died in 1944). As I [Read More...]
- USER REPORT: The Fuji X100 vs the Leica M6? By Frederick Ogez I can hear the angry comments already, “This is ridiculous! These two cameras were never intended to be matched against the likes of each other… A viewfinder camera with a fixed lens and an interchangeable lens rangefinder??!” And, “Not another FILM AGAINST [Read More...]
The Power of the Polaroid (and photos in general) By Steve Huff I have been home for 3-4 days and am STILL going through my e-mails so sorry if you wrote and did not get a reply just yet. One of the emails included a link to a story with some pretty powerful images. All [Read More...]
Olympus XA: The smallest rangefinder camera By Konstantinos Besios (His Blog Here) The Leica M is considered to be the best tool for street photography, small and light with top image quality and the pros of a rangefinder camera. But, there are some cases when I wanted an even smaller camera body that could literally [Read More...]
What I’ve learned from Shooting Film By Andrew Shipman The main reason I want to write this is to explain why I think shooting film is not only fun and rewarding but also an indispensable tool for making you a better and more consistent shooter whether film or digital. A little background on me:Iím 36 [Read More...]
As Ubiquitous as a Pen A few years back when Olympus started it’s ad campaign for it’s Pen series Digitals, I wondered aloud to myself “Could it be? Could I finally have a digital version of my beloved PenFT?” Sadly the answer was no. I won’t go into the technical reasons why I am not [Read More...]
5 Reasons Why I Am Glad I Switched to a Film Rangefinder for Street Photography By Eric Kim For nearly two years, I shot street photography entirely with a DSLR (the Canon 5D to be specific). I had always heard of people primarily using rangefinders for street work, but wasn’t quite sure why that was [Read More...]
Is the Yashica Electro the best deal in rangefinder photography? by Ricky Opaterny Eight years ago, I shot with a Leica for the first time and immediately found the experience to be photographically unparalleled. Although I longed for an M7, my budget at the time could only accommodate a used R body, an old [Read More...]
Film Types and Examples By Tyson Call One of the most daunting things about starting to shoot film can be walking into your local camera store and seeing multiple varieties of colored boxes with names like Kodak Tri-X and Ektar. The clerk asks you which one you want and you stutter, trying to figure out [Read More...]
The Friday Film: A Look Back at a Classic! The Leica CM Zoom. By Steve Huff Yea! The Friday film is back for today, March 4th 2011! It’s been a while since I shot film and I have to say I missed it! A few months ago I had some extreme financial issues and had [Read More...]
- From Steve: Starting off this Monday morning with a cool little guest post by Mikael Tornwall. Coming this week…The M9 Contest Details, Pentax K5 review, some film stuff, and a look at the Panasonic LX-5. Enjoy! – Why a used M7 is more expensive than a new M9 The true cost of film by [Read More...]
A Trip To Hong Kong With The Leica M3 By Allen Liu First, before I tell you about my recent trip to Taiwan and Hong Kong, I want to thank Steve for giving me the opportunity to share my experiences and photos. For the past 12 months, aside from when I was on vacation, I [Read More...]
A reader of this blog, Konstantinos Besios, sent in these two images in where he snapped the same scene with his M8 with a B+W 092 Infrared filter and his Leica M7 with Tri-X 400 and a B+W 091 Red Filter. The M7 was scanned on an Epson V500 scanner so it is not even [Read More...]
Received a few more images from the attendees of the NYC event on October 15th so I had to post them! The 1st set of images are from Riccis who was a guest speaker. He used an old WIDELUX film camera which was VERY cool. Riccis Valladares Images from Riccis Valladares using his Widelux camera [Read More...]
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