Compact Camera Market: Is the Japanese fixed-lens boom starting a worldwide trend?

Japan has experienced a resurgence in compact camera popularity, led by younger users seeking unique aesthetics distinct from smartphones, alongside a gifting culture, with fixed-lens models dominating sales.

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The Birth of Television: John Logie Baird’s 1926 demonstration in London’s Soho

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XPAN and my love affair with a quirky film format

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Zeiss Biogon 25/2.8 ZM: A superb one-lens option when hiking with a rangefinder

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Exploring grief and identity in Sayuri Ichida’s Absentee at the Leica Gallery, London

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Sup Up & Away: Celebrating the last of the traditional pubs in Yorkshire

Once a month, Ian Beesley and Ian McMillan (the poet) meet at a Huddersfield pub to discuss life and reminisce about past pubs in industrial Yorkshire. They reflect on the decline of these community hubs due to industrial changes, and a nostalgia for a vibrant pub culture that featured live piano music and local camaraderie.

Ricoh GR IV Monochrome: New pocket camera dedicated to black-and-white photography

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Panasonic Lumix TZ200: A new take on the ultra-compact travel camera

Panasonic's new Lumix TZ200 is a pocket camera just a tax larger than the Sony RX100 but with a zoom range from 24-360mm. Could this extended reach from a slower lens prove more attractive for travellers  than the Sony's faster f/1.8-2.8 lens but with a much tighter 23-70mm zoom?

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Sigma’s L-mount Foveon delay to 2020

Sigma's new L-mount mirrorless camera is delayed to 2020, but advance details are whetting the appetite of full-frame fans

Stabilisation is now a box-tickers’ essential

DPReview has said that in future the absence of in-body stabilisation in a camera system will be regarded as a definite con. No longer is it seen as an option, it's definitely a necessity. Macfilos investigates....

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The hype seems never-ending: used Leica M film cameras continue to post new price records on the second-hand market....

Solitude, a dog, a bicycle and a new-found love for Leica

During the 2020 lockdown, Roderick Field found solitude, a Patterdale Terrier, a bicycle and a new love for all things Leica

Shooting marine landscape with Leica M9 and M-Monochrom

As a break from the trials of lockdown, why not take a tour of Brighton's cosmopolitan seafront together with Leica photographers Kris Pawlowski and John Brockliss

Macfilos gets the Covid vaccine: Jabbing on an industrial scale in one small corner of London

A surprise call at 9 am and, by noon your editor had the Pfizer needle in his arm. The British National Health Service is in top gear, racing to protect the most vulnerable in society.
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