With premium point and shoots skyrocketing in price due to their scarcity, celebrity endorsement, and cool-guy factor, many people are searching for alternatives to cameras such as the Contax T2 (nearing $600, I sold mine for $325 about a year ago) and the also steadily-rising Olympus Stylus Epic with 35mm 2.8 lens (some asking prices […]
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Recently, I have been trying to offload or sell some of my camera gear in favor of shedding the amount of stuff I have and simplifying my shooting. I’m really trying to only one one camera for each of the 35mm and 120 formats, but it is proving to be very difficult. More often than […]
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Over the years, I have tried almost all of the instant photography options out there. I started out using a Polaroid Land Camera with Fuji (both the 1000c and 3000b) pack film. Perhaps I just didn’t have the right knowledge, camera, expertise, or vision for instant film at the time. I guess didn’t know what […]
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I recently picked up a Voigtlander Bessa R3A with a 40mm f/1.4 Nokton. I think I have finally found my end-game camera for 35mm shooting. Well, at least for now. I know many people say that the build quality and shutter sounds between the Bessa and the Leica M series are almost incomparable in the […]
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Ever since I got into shooting film, it was like a whole new world opened before my eyes. Aside from the different formats of film I could choose to shoot, I also had thousands of cameras to research and choose from. I have been lucky enough to get my hands on many different cameras over the […]
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