This article was inspired by classic film cameras in movies, taken from my own observations and from internet research and initially focused on the cameras in the films. From cameras in movies, it's a short step to movies about photographers....

It’s hard not be distracted from Vivian Maier’s work by her life. As told in the 2015 documentary Finding Vivian Maier, the extraordinary stories of her life and the discovery of her work have contributed substantially to her posthumous status as a...

Kodak No. 2 Folding Autographic Brownie With the crammed, tiny text engraved on the front plate that describes the rather eccentric ‘Autotime’ system, and a stylus on the back to engrave notes on the negative using the Autographic feature, the...

This timeline of early cameras describes significant photographic milestones and early cameras representative of their year of introduction between the inception of photography and 1900. I've also provided an overview of the most important developments decade by decade from 1840-1900...

The legendary German marque has had more than its fair share of movie appearances, particularly the M3. Leica pioneered the 35mm 'miniature format', back in 1930 with the first practical camera to use standard cinema film, which required high quality lenses...

This year by year camera timeline lists significant milestones and cameras representative of the year, as well as some curiosities and evolutionary dead-ends from 1900. The timeline does not include developments in lenses, film processes or camera phones. These can...

The Nikon FM3A (often written as FM3a) is one of the most refined manual SLR's ever made, and as a 21st century manual focus film SLR, somewhat of a throwback. It was introduced in July 2001 when the shift to...

There are many strands in a photography timeline - the chemistry of film and processing, the physics of optics, the mechanical engineering of shutters, the electronics of metering and digital photography, and the iconic camera designs that bring everything together....

Nearly three years after I first posted about my new Leica Q on this site, it was stolen from a South Kensington Pub. This was after a visit to the Natural History Museum to see the 2019 Wildlife Photographer of...

I first came across Fan Ho's work in a podcast from Ted Forbes' The Art of Photography.  Some photographer's work gives me an immediate jolt the first time I see it.  Fan Ho's photography, like that of Brassaï and William Klein,...

Brassaï is one of those photographers whose work had an immediate and profound effect on me.  His dreamlike nocturnal street photography and sharply observed portraits of life after dark provide a unique set of images that is as close to a...

I came across the work of William Klein when browsing though photography books in a book shop.  It didn't take many turns of the pages for me to decide to buy the book and learn more about the man and...

Fox Talbot at dawn The recent exhibition Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph at the Science Museum in London which ended on September 11th 2016 was described as ‘magical to behold’ by  Time Out  and ‘ground-breaking’ by The Times.  I found it extremely...

Before the Leica Q Before the Leica Q, I have never considered owning a Leica.  I have been 100% loyal to Nikon for film SLRs and DSLRs (I am now on my 4th generation - the Df), though that isn't...

It's been a while... Before I went back to film with a Nikon F3 in 2016,  my previous film camera was a Canon IXUS, 20 years ago.  This was a point and shoot compact which took APS film, a short...

We have had colour photography since the 1930s and the invention of Kodachrome, though it took until the 1970s for it become the norm.  So why has black and white photography persisted? Perhaps the most obvious difference between colour and...

Waterloo Place by Leonard Misonne (1899) There is something magical to me about  pictorialist photography, particularly urban pictorialism, as shown here in Leonard Misonne's accomplished example from 1899.  In addition to having the skill to take photographs with the cumbersome...

I have seen some astonishing black and white photography that uses very strong neutral density (ND) filters such as the B+W ND 110 to blur cloud movement using a long exposure.  I wanted to get some shots with the same effect into...