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…]
When I was twelve, I saved up my allowance to buy my first camera, but then I was presented with a unique opportunity: my great uncle had passed leaving a stash of Leicas for my dad, who was a Leica fanatic himself. My dad took an M3 from this stash, had it CLA’d, and told me to try it out before I spent my money on something else. I thought he was crazy… I never understood my dad’s fascination with Leicas, and here I was presented with not just a Leica, but a Leica with no electronics to assist me. Well, I tried the M3, and it quickly became my constant companion for many years.
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