Abbazz

Here you are, Greg: The Combat Graflex, also called a Combat70 or Gullivers Contax, is a rangefinder camera made by Graflex and using 70mm film. It was designed by the former Zeiss Ikon designer ...

Thank you, Jim. There are so many great cameras and so little time! Cheers! Abbazz

Some cameras make me smile when I look at them: Credit: Popular Photography/Bob Schwalberg Credit: Popular Photography/Bob Schwalberg The Rox camera was a French made simple 6x9 camera that was ...

Beautiful kit. Makes me smile too! Cheers! Abbazz

+1 on the Pictorico High Gloss White Film. I print with a 20 year old Epson Stylus Photo 1200 printer using pigment inks on Pictorico HGWF A3+ paper (329 mm x 483 mm) and the results constantly ...

Nice 6x9 Super Ikonta!

I always carry more than one body, usually three, mostly because I hate changing lenses while traveling. Ideally, it would be great to bring along three GFX bodies, one with a wide prime or zoom ...

Sorry Greg but the Greatest Guitar Player of all times is of course Frank Zappa. And since we are on DPReview's most advanced forum, here's a graph to prove it scientifically: ;-) Y Scale is ...

I am not fond of the Pentax wooden handle: with the right hand on the camera to trip the shutter and the left hand gripping the glorious wooden handle, how are we supposed to focus the lens? The ...

In the 1990s, the Kontron ProgRes 3012 digital camera used a "piezo micro-adjustment of the CCD array to produce 3000 by 2320 pixels." It delivered huge (for that time) images in 24 bit color. http ...

Congrats, these are rare items. Even the Canon 500D achromats in 77mm are not produced anymore. I find them so convenient because they take almost zero space in the bag, while allowing for close-up ...

Panasonic 14-140mm is a great do-it-all lens that I used a lot in the past but now I find that it delivers somewhat lackluster images compared to smaller range zooms. Nowadays, I prefer traveling ...

What I meant is an original Marchioni or Leitz Tiltall. The Tiltall brand name has been sold a long while ago and modern products bearing the name are not what they used to be. Here's a good old ...

Tiltall of course! Cheers! Abbazz

Extension tubes are not always the best solution. It is often a problem to use extension tubes, even 18mm tubes and even with the best lenses because they can indeed induce focus curvature and ...

I often use the Pentax close-up filters designed for 6x7 lenses when shooting with the Fuji GFX or Pentax 645D cameras. These filters are high quality achromats (2 elements) with multicoating. ...

Fabulous indeed. Congrats on completing the collection! The 9-27mm is indeed a very good kit zoom. At 9mm, it is just as good as the 9mm (or even better if you have a good sample of the zoom). But ...

In general, it is indeed more difficult to focus Soft Focus lenses. On my Pentax K1-ii, I can also use autofocus, even though I usually prefer to adjust the focus manually A short telephoto lens ...

I would be even more envious if you posted some pictures of your rare acquisition! ;-) Cheers, Abbazz

This is a great shot! And congratulations on acquiring this rather rare lens. I have one of these gems and I love how it renders when shooting at close range. You should try it with small objects ...