Revisiting the Minolta SRT Series

The Minolta SRT-101 started the quite popular lineage of SRT-series cameras from Minolta. Following the 101, we also got the … More

Large Format Photography – an Introduction

C’mon, you know you’ve always wanted to try it! Back about 30 years ago when I was a young photographer, … More

A sad, sad story My last post was about taking my Nikon F2 on a fantastic road trip through the … More

Greatest Mechanical SLR Ever? Back in 1959, Nikon set the bar for a professional 35mm SLR with the release of … More

The “Black Beauty” So, today we’re taking a look at the Canon EF – affectionately known as the “Black Beauty” … More

Useful Tool for Macro Photography? So, when a dentist friend of mine was getting ready to retire, he was looking … More

The year was 1983. The year I turned 16, got my first car – an orange 1969 Chevy Camaro. The … More

Once Minolta let the autofocus cat out of the bag in 1985 with their famous 7000 camera, autofocus technology began … More

I couldn’t be happier that there are companies out there which are producing new products marketed toward classic and vintage … More

As far back as the early 1960s, Asahi Pentax was formulating plans for a 6×7 format SLR. But development issues … More