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Minolta MC Rokkor X 85mm F/1.7 Fast Prime Portrait Lens Review
I sometimes forget how much I love old lenses. And then something like the Minolta MC Rokkor X 85mm F/1.7 comes through the shop and I’m instantly reminded. With its enormous front element, full metal...
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A Leica R6.2 Review – by Hamish Gill of 35mmc
I’d not shot a Leica SLR before I picked up the Leica R6.2. In fact, when I first shot with this camera, I’d hardly shot with any make or model of SLR for a few years. I mostly mention this as it helps...
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The Bolsey Model C – a Unique 35mm Twin Lens Reflex Rangefinder Camera
The Bolsey Model C, or as it’s formally designated, the Bolsey 35 Model C Twin Lens Reflex camera, is one of the quirkiest and downright weird cameras ever made. And that’s why I love it. Produced from...
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Canon MC Review –’80s Tech Fails in Today’s World
The traditional aesthetic of cyberpunk as a sub-genre of science-fiction has remained largely unchanged since William Gibson’s Neuromancer of 1984 crystallized the genre; dystopian future, low-life...
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All About the Nikon Nikkormat Series – a Retrospective
If the world of film photography is built upon the relationships between cameras and their shooters, there may be no relationship stranger than the one between Nikon and amateur photographers. Nikon’s...
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Minolta MC Fisheye Rokkor X 7.5mm F/4 Lens Review
Minolta made plenty of unusual lenses in their time. The STF 135mm F/2.8 T/4.5 (Smooth Trans Focus) portrait lens used an apodization filter to create the creamiest bokeh the world had ever seen. The...
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Wabi-Sabi of Photography and Why I Stopped Chasing Perfection
Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect. These are the three truths of the Japanese concept wabi-sabi, an aesthetic philosophy centered on the acceptance of transience and...
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An Interview with the Director of Sirkhane Darkroom, a Mobile Photography...
The Sirkhane Darkroom is part of a traveling school of sorts called Sirkhane, whose aim is to teach the arts to refugees from the Syrian Civil War on the Turkish side of the Turkey-Syria border. Their...
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Chinon Splash Review – My Sleeper Point and Shoot of the Year
I didn’t expect to like the Chinon Splash. Like so many other auto-everything point-and-shoot 35mm film cameras from the late 1980s, I assumed that it would be clunky, unreliable, and limiting. I...
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The Colorful Telephoto Street Photography of Ali Boombayé – Featured...
Street Photography 101 tells us we need a 50mm lens and black-and-white film. This has been the formula for damn near eighty years. And it’s boring. The cure? Check out Ali’s work on today’s Featured...
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Our Favorite Lenses as Chosen by Your Favorite Camera Geeks
Because real photo geeks know that it’s all about the lens, I asked a few of my friends in the camera community to choose their favorite lens, tell us why they love it, and share one favorite photo...
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The People and the Land of Northern Italy, as Seen Through the Lens of Ettore...
Today’s photographer spotlight takes us to northern Italy, where the large format photography of Ettore Moni explores the people who live and work in that region. His projects include studies of...
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Contax 167MT Camera Review
The highlight of my year, every year and without fail, is my trip to the United Kingdom. My primary vocational pursuit is academic research, and each year my field’s premier conference convenes at New...
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Ten Great Point and Shoot Film Cameras From $25 to $99
Hang out wherever people talk about film cameras and you’ll get the idea that shooting film is expensive. And yeah, it can be. But it doesn’t have to be. There are plenty of ways to lower the cost of...
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Five Inexpensive Accessories to Get More Out of Your Photography
Earlier this week we published an article listing ten inexpensive (but still very good) point and shoot film cameras. Today we’re keeping the budget-conscious articles coming. Here are five (or more)...
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Our Five Favorite Cameras Not Made in Japan or Germany
Like many of you, the Casual Photophile team is mostly stuck at home while we wait for our cities and towns to reopen. In the social distancing era (which we hope will be short-lived), we’ve found it a...
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Schneider Kreuznach Super Xenar 50mm F/2.8 – Lens Review
James recently published an article titled Our Favorite Lenses as Chosen by Your Favorite Camera Geeks, in which he asked well-known bloggers, photographers, and Casual Photophile writers to talk about...
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Why Take Pictures? Answering the Existential Crisis of the Photography Hobbyist
For a minute there, I imagined that I could be a real photographer. It might be me at the head of a billowing trail of Saharan dust, my driver beside me wrestling our Land Rover between towers of...
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How the Nikon F100 (and Film) Changed My Digital Photography
My intention isn’t to review the Nikon F100, or the D700 DSLR which I’ll soon mention, nor their lenses, which swap wonderfully between the two bodies. If you look back to about a year ago on this very...
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We Review Negative Lab Pro and Interview its Creator, Nate Johnson
Developing and scanning film can be expensive. Here in the UK, high street stores like Snappy Snaps and Boots aren’t exactly cheap, and the quality of their work is often disappointing. Professional...
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