When we zoom in or use a longer focal length, the subject looks bigger... other things being equal, of course. But other things need not be equal. We can, for instance, zoom in ...
My photographic story’s a classic one, a cliché you might say. It all started when I was just 8 years old on the day my grandmother gave me my first camera, passed down to me fr...
There are few things more frustrating to a photographer than being forced to stay home while museums, restaurants and parks are closed, unless you are really into still life, wh...
Tell me something that is heavy, hard, old and almost unbreakable. Is it a stone? No, it's a prewar Contax. I say "almost unbreakable", as these poor specimens have seen better ...
It’s the one that comes with the camera, it’s the 'nifty fifty' and the bog standard prime lense everyone has included in the pack that’s so quickly forgotten and replaced by fa...
20 June, 2020
A look back at a Return to Photography and Discovering Shooting Legacy Lenses – By Rock
When I returned to photography as a hobby after a fifteen year lay-off, my newly acquired camera was digital; it never occurred to me to look into film again. I did lots of rese...
If you saw the recent "Guess the Focal Length" Twitter post, this is where we reveal the answers. You can of course jump straight to the end, but since the photos were part of a...
As a longtime Pentax shooter, I stumbled across the diminutive Pentax Auto 110 by accident. The amateur-friendly SLR is an engineering marvel. Part of what I enjoy about it is m...