Every so often, I'll get really frugal and ask a couple of cameras to share a roll of film.  Though there are problems here and there, t...

For as long as I have successfully been able to use it, I have loved my Kodak Bantam Special 4.5 . Its incredibly compact design and intuiti...

Camera model designations are a curious mix.  There are numbers, combinations of letters, names, and amalgams of any and all of these.  The...

"Wow, but you're handsome."  That was my very first thought.  As someone who owns rangefinder cameras made from the 1940...

The camera sat on my shelf looking sort of lost among a handful of Japanese, American, and German counterparts, bedecked with its incongruo...

Ever shot a photo with one hand with the other bracing a pole?  Over a blind fence? Panning a moving subject due to a slow shutter speed? O...

Rarity and value in the film camera collecting world can often have no seeming relationship.  One can head over to ebay and see a huge quant...

The hobby of film photography on classic cameras is a road often fraught with perils and temptations, particularly when it comes to resistin...

Battery powered exposure metering is something that the vast majority of today's photographer's take largely for granted.  Today...

Friendships are always a mixed bag.  Some are marked by a certain sense of overreaching influence, where a person tries to give you guidance...

"Less Filling! Tastes Great!" was the tagline of one of the more memorable TV ads of the 1980's, meant to highlight the seemin...

Resistance was futile.   I kept telling myself I had no need to go into the format of 127.  I continually insisted that there was no benef...

I recall something in the frame of workplace logic that says "Fast, Cheap, Good - Pick Two." The implication behind this is that h...