This article first appeared in, the now defunct, Wildling Magazine (vol.2 September 2015). We visited Iran in October 2014. Iran, not the most usual travel destination for a family. Yet there we were, waiting at the gate to board our long flight to Tehran with a little boy, not even…

If you have been using Leica lenses, you are probably aware of the two mounts that are available for the rangefinder cameras. There’s the current M system and there is the older, LTM (aka L39 aka screw-mount) system. The screw-mount lenses are generally much older (they were for the first…

In January 2022 I bought a Leica Monochrom Typ 246 (M246). I wrote last November about my experiences with it up to that point. For me, as someone that has pretty much shot film for the last 10 years, it has been quite a bit of a learning curve. So…

This article first appeared in, the now defunct, Wildling Magazine site (August 2015). The original post was just a collection of images…

Welcome back! It took a while, almost 2 years, but I finally got round to writing this up. We left part 1 of the story on the ferry, somewhere in the middle of the Adriatic, heading south east towards Igoumenitsa, getting ready for the 2nd part of our journey. We…

I’m currently a bit in a phase where I just find big photo equipment annoying. It is big, heavy, a pain to lug around, it drags you down, tires you as you walk about. Just…not nice. And then, something comes along that is refreshing: the pancake Canon 40mm f/2.8 …

I do like a normal lens. I really do. The majority of my photos are with one. Across all the formats I have used (35mm, 645, 6x6, 6x7) the one lens that served me the most was the standard lens. …

I was writing this story about the Nikon F3 and realised that pretty much all the photos I used were shot with the 50/1.2 AIS. So…here’s a mini review of this little gem. The specs This is the fastest F-mount lens Nikon made, along with the 58/1.2. It is also one of…

The Nikon F3. Nikon’s top end film SLR camera of the 80s. I had one (a few years ago, not in the 80s!), the F3HP to be precise. …