The Billingham Stowaway Compact:

Let me start out by saying that I am a huge Billingham fan.  I’ve used bags from Tenba, Tamrac, and Domke but I’ve always come back to Billinghams.  In fact, I have a Hadley that I’ve been using regularly for over 18 years.  So when I got the chance to review a new Billingham Stowaway Compact bag (found here at Amazon or here at Adorama), I jumped at it. [continue reading…]

Back when film was the main medium for photography, I used Gepe slide mounts for my medium format slides all the time.  The slide mounts  were extremely well constructed, and they presented my work behind their Anti-Newton glass  in a very professional manner.

Nowadays, I shoot mainly digital with the wonderful Leica M9 (which I reviewed recently) so I don’t really need those slide mounts anymore.  But I realized that I was steadily obtaining more and more memory cards with no place to put them, and always constantly misplacing them.  So I looked online, and was actually glad to see that Gepe was still in business, and now making cases for memory cards. [continue reading…]