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Last Chance to Enter Our Spring Giveaway!
This is it, friends! Today is the last day to enter our spring giveaway for a chance to win your very own Canon AE-1, or one of three AE-1 Exploded View prints. That’s right. In our never-ending quest...
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Exploded Views – Canon AF35M
It seems we’ve been on something of a Canon binge lately. We’ve reviewed the classic A-1, put a wide FD lens through its paces, and just wrapped up our AE-1 springtime giveaway! Yes, the past few...
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Canon AE-1 Spring Giveaway Winners Announced
It’s springtime (finally), and to help spread the joy of photography we began April with a giveaway. We asked our readers to post photos to our accounts on Ello, Facebook, and Instagram using the...
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A Letter to Our Readers
To Our Readers, For those of you who follow CASUAL PHOTOPHILE’s social media pages (Ello, Facebook, and Instagram, specifically), you’ll have already seen our post regarding our noted absence this...
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CP Book Club – Leica : The First Fifty Years by G. Rogliatti
There are few pleasures as easy to attain as the simple act of sitting and relaxing for a few moments with a good book. And for those of us who are into photography there is certainly no shortage of...
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Noteworthy Lenses – Minolta MC Macro Rokkor QF 50mm ƒ/3.5
It’s time for another look at a fantastic piece of vintage glass, and today we’re talking about a truly versatile lens. It’s the Minolta MC Macro Rokkor QF 50mm ƒ/3.5, and it provides one of the...
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Product Spotlight – Asilda Store Pins Patches & Prints
This hobby of ours comes with a price tag. There’s no denying that. Things can get pretty expensive pretty quickly, and often you get what you pay for. Spend ten bucks on a lens and you’re likely not...
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5 Best Japanese 35mm Film SLR Cameras
The last time we compiled a “Top Five” list we were focused on the simple joy of point-and-shoot cameras. The automated nature of the five cameras we chose was perfect for those photo geeks interested...
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Father’s Day Sales at F-Stop Cameras
As our faithful readers will know, in addition to covering the world of classic cameras and photography here on CASUAL PHOTOPHILE, we also run a pretty swell online camera shop called F-Stop Cameras....
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Nikon N8008 / F-801 – Camera Review
Shooting classic cameras often brings compromise. Sometimes your camera lacks auto-focus, other times it’s got no light meter, or maybe your camera can’t auto-expose. We love old cameras, but...
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Film Profile – Kodak Portra 400
As happens very often here at CP, we received not long ago a shipment of gear bundled in an old, dusty camera bag. Inside one of the pouches was found a couple of rolls of film, and upon closer...
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On Photographing the Homeless – A Dialogue
To be fair, I’m not a very good photographer. If I’m good at anything (though that’s questionable) it would have to be writing. It’s my belief that the job of a writer is to ask questions, to treat...
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What is Depth of Field (DOF)
We’re back with more photography tips to help new (and experienced) shooters better understand this fantastic hobby of ours. In the past we’ve covered things like ISO, zone focusing, and...
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Zeiss Ikon Contina II (524/24) – Camera Review
In shooting vintage cameras there exists something of a “sweet spot”; a kind of “Goldilocks zone” that only a certain number of cameras occupy. For many shooters, a camera needs to be old enough to...
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Noteworthy Lenses – Nikon Nikkor 105mm ƒ/2.5
We’re back with another noteworthy lens, and this one’s a real legend for Nikon photographers of a certain age. Yes, if you were shooting film during the 1960s or in any of the subsequent three...
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DIY Photo Frame Using Polaroid Film Cartridges
Looking for a hip and inexpensive way to frame and showcase some of your best photos? If so, watch our latest video. In it we show how to take old, empty Polaroid film cartridges and turn them into...
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Exploded Views – Olympus OM2
We’re back with another Exploded View, and this time we’ve dissected a fan-favorite SLR. It’s Olympus’ OM-2, and it’s among the smallest and most technologically advanced cameras of the film era....
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Film Profile – Kodak Ektar 100
We’re back with another film profile to help you decide which film is right for you. Last time, we talked about Kodak’s Portra 400, a warm and rich color film that we thought was a pretty solid...
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Minolta X-700 – Camera Review
I’ve long been a fan of Minolta’s cameras and lenses. The boys from Osaka were always among the most innovative, forward-thinking, and truly exceptional camera-makers. And while they had their share...
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Olympus Zuiko Auto-W 28mm ƒ/2.8 – Lens Review
We’re back with another lens review, and this time we’re taking a look at a sleeper of a lens from Olympus. The OM-System Zuiko Auto-W 28mm ƒ/2.8 doesn’t look like much on paper, but its fun-factor,...
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