Camera or matryoshka doll? This Zorki S sets out to impress...

Regular readers will have noticed the radical new look of Macfilos. Many of you will not like it — we have already had two complaints－so I can tell you that work is in progress. I need to provide a little background. Two weeks ago we changed to a "new" Squarespace template which we preferred to the one we have been using for the past couple of years. There were no complaints and we were reasonably happy, bar a note to have a look at the typography in the cool of a convenient evening.

Fuji today announces a major firmware upgrate for the successful X-T1 DSLR-lookalike X-T1 mirrorless camera. It includes a new autofocus sysem with zone and wide/tracing modes for moving subjects, improved AF accuracy, an eye-detection systems which tracks the focus of the eye, an auto macro model and AF improvements in the movie mode.

While at the R.G.Lewis closing down sale today I picked up a full Leica catalogue, with prices, from November 1967. It's something I've wanted to find for a long time and I am still looking for a 1954 version right at the start of the M era. Interesting to see all these prices and reflect on how cheap they seem to us now.

This morning I paid a visit to R.G.Lewis in Southampton Row, London, to have a chat and look over the stock in the closing-down sale. Last week owner Len Lyons announced his intention to retire and 100-year-old business, once the UK’s leading Leica agent, will close in June. I came away having purchased a wonderful momento of a fine and dedicated Leica retailer.