Tag: Classics

The Digilux 2 is one of Leica's earliest digital cameras and still manages to captivate photographers after 14 years. John is a firm Digilux 2 user and has just taken his camera out of winter hibernation.

It's a topsy turvy world. What is deadly dangerous one minute becomes safe the next. Our laptops and cameras have been shuttling around between cabin and hold for the past six months. But now, it seems, we've been doing it right for years.....

Would you sell all your Leica lenses and invest in Zeiss-ZM entirely? Hamish Gill has done just that, but then he does like the classic rendering.....

Bob White looks at the earliest days of press photography and describes the sort of gear the professional cameraman would have had in his hands in the first half of the 20th century.

It isn't quite the tomb of Tutenkhamun but there's a certain frisson of adventure in opening a box of ex-factory Leica gear that hasn't seen the light of day since the mid 1970s. Ivor was the lucky guy.....

Is it possible to avoid touching the focus tab during a day's shooting on the Welsh borders? Mike takes his 28mm f/5.6 Summaron for a zone focus treat in Chepstow

The LeCoultre Compass camera, a veritable grande complication of the photographic world was conceived and designed by a rather obnoxious hyphenated lawmaker.....

John gets back into film with the Hasselblad 500C. But the Australian climate and Himalayan cat hairs put paid to the experiment.

Could you resist this cute little 50-year-old? Mike couldn't, so he snapped it up for £10, complete with accessories. 

The latest Olympus PEN-F has a glittering heritage stretching back to the early 1960s, almost as far back as the Leica M3. Mike has been buying a cheap PEN-FT to enhance his growing PEN collection.

Mike’s recent article, about a possible ‘modernised’ version of the Leica 2.8cm f/5.6 Summaron screw-mount lens being introduced, tempted me to take down my copy of this lens and to shoot some photos on my most modern Leica digital M, the M240.

Photographica, one of the largest photo fairs in the UK, is a firm favourite among collectors. It attracts buyers from all over the world and, as usual with these events, the early birds catch the worms. Mike Evans was there today to grab some shots....