Tag: Events

Manual focus lenses, electronic viewfinders: How does the Leica M10’s Visoflex stack up against a modern in-camera EVF such as that in the Sony A7III? Not very well, as Mike finds out.

A six-hour drive in each direction took Mike to the annual Bièvres photo fair last weekend. Bargains were few and far but, unlike Mike, British dealers didn’t come away empty handed.

Mike is off to Biévres, camera in hand, to see what’s cooking at Europe’s biggest out-door photography fair…..

Why are the 1940s such a popular era for retro events? Mike Evans and Ken Fung go to the Brooklands 1940s Revival event to find out.

Two of Europe’s largest photographic fairs take place in the next six weeks. First off is Photographica in London on May 20, followed by Bièvres, near Paris, on June 2 and 3.

Get out your demob suit and your black-market nylons and head down to Brooklands this weekend…

The next Solms Camera Trade Fair will take place on Saturday, April 21, 2018 in the heart of Leicaland.

Cossacks in Surrey, surely some mistake. But no, the Red Army is out in force every November on the steppes of the Home Counties....

Two weeks ago the new Aircraft Factory at Brooklands Museum was opened by Prince Michael of Kent. Following the relocation of the hangar, the first stage of the restoration of the 1907 race track's finishing straight is complete. Mike took his new CL and a couple of interesting lenses to see what all the fuss is about....

Back in 1974 Don was sent to Brooklands to photograph the famous designer Barnes Wallis. It led to an invitation to an exclusive reunion of pre-war car racing drivers on the circuit the same weekend.....

Mike is not big on aviation history, but this tiny "booking hall" which goes back to the earliest days of flying, is actually the world's first flight ticket office.....

After 78 years there is a race scoreboard towering over the finishing straight at Brooklands, the world's first purpose-built motor racing track. Mike went along the record the event….