The Leica IIIF RD has been the subject of a lot of my articles lately, and for good reason. It has been quite the ride. I first purchased a IIIF RD from KEH last year when I discovered it had pinholes in the shutter curtain. You can read about that here. I was happy to… Continue reading The Leica IIIF – Final Chapter?
It’s been a while since I have done a camera review, almost a year in fact. I’ve mostly been focusing on projects and film itself, so I didn’t notice it had been so long. I’m currently working on a review for a KMZ Start that Mike Eckman has lent me, so that will be coming… Continue reading Update: Bye Bye Leica IIIF
As I teased in my article Leica IIIF I Barely Knew Ye, more details were to come about my experience with the Leica IIIf RD. I ran into a bump in the road when I had to send it back for repair. When Hamish asked me to write something for his site I chose to… Continue reading Leica IIIF My First Impressions – Featured on 35mmC
I bought a Leica IIIF RD from KEH last month, but only had it for a short time. My first impressions of this camera will be featured in an article on 35mmc very soon, so I am only going to share some photos I took with it and give a brief story on what happened.… Continue reading Leica IIIF – I Barely Knew Ye
If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know I have been having quite the experience with a Leica IIIF I purchased from KEH. To get the whole story you can check out these articles here. In the meantime, I had purchased a Summitar 50mm f2 collapsible lens for the IIIF. At first, I… Continue reading Summitar 50mm f2 – To Keep or Not to Keep
In my quest to find a working Leica IIIF, I shared my thoughts on the Leica Summitar 5cm f2, and my decision on whether or not to keep it. I did end up keeping the lens because of the difficulty I had in finding one that wasn’t in horrible condition, as well as the compact… Continue reading Riding in Cars with Film – the Leica Summitar 5cm f2
I often receive comments on my articles and videos from former photographers and photojournalists with praise for some of the cameras I review, especially with the Nikon F line. I recently received a comment from Ken Mierzwa on my Nikon F2 article, and he mentioned that he was a photojournalist in the 1970s. Personally, I… Continue reading Guest Post: Ken Mierzwa
Several of us in the film community have decided to create articles sharing 3 cameras we used this past year that we are excited about. I’ve chosen 3 that I haven’t yet reviewed so that this can serve as a preview of what’s to come next year. Here are my 3 cameras from 2022. 1.… Continue reading 3 Cameras from 2022
My guest on this week’s Snapshot of the Film Community is a fellow south Florida photographer named Aloy Anderson. You may know him from his YouTube channel titled Raychristofer where he reviews products such as skateboards and microphones as well as cameras and film. I found him when I was researching my Mamiya 645 and… Continue reading A Snapshot of the Film Community – Aloy Anderson
