Leica M5 Brochure — by Bruce Robbins on

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Having said earlier this month that my Leica of choice, were I splashing out on one, would be the M4, it's much more likely that the cam...

Merry Christmas! — by Bruce Robbins on

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I'm going to take a wee break from blogging over Christmas and the New Year so this would be a good time to thank all my readers for the...

Mantrap — by Bruce Robbins on

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Whatever imagination I have, I find it all but impossible to apply it to the art of coming up with titles for photographs. Most of the time,...

Ripped Off? — by Bruce Robbins on

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Naughty Adox. Naughty, naughty Adox. For the first time ever for me, a 35mm film wound fully out of the cassette and onto the take-up spool ...

An old-fashioned look - but how? — by Bruce Robbins on

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The vintage look, which I've written about before here , can be quite elusive. Sometimes even the classic lenses with a traditional film...

Leica System Brochure 1953 - Printable — by Bruce Robbins on

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I might just be suffering from old-fartism but don't you think the design of this 1953 brochure is much more interesting than the 1960s ...

Misspent Youth — by Bruce Robbins on

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This crumbling den of inequity was where my brother and I often gravitated on Saturdays just a few years before the snooker boom really took...

To crop or not to crop? — by Bruce Robbins on

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It's not unusual for me to see crops in pictures taken by other photographers but it seems I need to develop the knack of looking at my ...