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July 14, 2020 in Entertainment, Film, Cameras, Popular, Lenses

A traveling photographer recruits is old pal to help document the exploration a small Ukrainian city, but the photogenic lure of an…

Read More Tags: Leica CL, Leica, Ukraine, slr, Agfa Vista 200, Voigtländer 15mm 4.5

The Hasselblad XPan is a legendary one-of-a-kind 35mm panoramic rangefinder worthy of its cult camera status, but at over $3,000 is it worthy of your money?

Read More October 26, 2019 in Cameras, Entertainment, Film, Lenses, Reviews

In this video you can see the Leica Summicron-C 40mm f2 Leica M-mount lens compared to the Carl Zeiss Tessar 45mm f2.8 for Contax/Yashica mount…

Read More October 01, 2019 in Cameras, Entertainment, Film, Lenses, Reviews

In this video my friend and I head out to Belgrade Fortress (built in 279 BC) in Serbia where we shoot two different Leica rangefinder setups. I chose to test out my new M-Rokkor 90mm f4 lens on…

Read More June 10, 2019 in Cameras, Film, Entertainment, Reviews

Although the current film photography community is incredibly small, I often feel that those of us remaining hold a cumulative passion matching that possessed by tens of millions just a few decades ago when film was the…

Read More April 06, 2019 in Lenses, Reviews, Tips/Resources/Guides, Film, Cameras

Most all Leica 40mm f2 Summicron-C lens reviews cover the same talking points, things like: most affordable Leica lens, body compatibility issues, awkward focal length, and undesirable bokeh. While these topics are all important…

Read More March 24, 2019 in Cameras, Film, Lenses, Reviews

The Avenon 28mm f3.5 LTM lens come from a Japanese manufacturer called YK optical in Yokohama, which had a short history of only producing two lenses mainly under the name of KOBALUX, a 28mm f3.5 as well as the 21mm f2.8 LTM…

Read More Tags: Leica, Leica MDa, Avenon 28mm f3.5, Kodak, Kodak Ultramax 400, Sweden February 16, 2019 in Cameras, Entertainment, Film, Tips/Resources/Guides

In this video, Cameraville travels to Finland to sit down with Juho Leppänen of Camera Rescue and take an inside look at their goal of saving 100,000 analog cameras by 2020. Leppänen details what is means to ‘rescue a camera’ …

Read More January 20, 2019 in Cameras, Film, Lenses, Reviews

The Horizon 202 doesn’t have any panoramic optics, it has panoramic mechanics. The Horizon 202 has a traditional 28mm f/2.8 prime lens, housed in mechanics which together categorize the Horizon as a swing-lens panoramic…

Read More Tags: Finland, Horizon 202, Cinestill 800T January 07, 2019 in Cameras, Lenses, Reviews, Film

Turning the knob one can feel a pleasing steady resistance of the multiple gears working together, turning the transport sprocket and take up spool, gently pulling the film out from the canister and along the focal plane, like a…

Read More January 05, 2019 in Tips/Resources/Guides, Entertainment, Cameras

In the middle of the 20th century at possibly the height of rangefinder camera popularity, Nikon did something amazing, releasing 8 variants of their flagship Nikon rangefinder camera in just 12 years- a feat only matched by the…

Read More December 25, 2018 in Cameras, Entertainment, Tips/Resources/Guides

Instagram and eBay are filled with images and info on premium compact film cameras, but when others offer comparable features and similar looks for 1/5th the price, is it really worth it? Here are 4 affordable alternatives to expensive point and shoot film cameras.

Read More Tags: Point and Shoot, Minolta TC-1, Fuji Tiara, Ricoh GR1, Nikon 28 Ti, Nikon AF600, Ricoh R1, Konica Hexar AF, Nikon L35AF, Konica, Nikon, Ricoh, Minolta, Fuji