A while ago, I picked up a beautiful Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 medium format folding camera for next to nothing from the Kamerastore website. It was cheap because it had, ‘flaws that will affect typical use.’ In this case, the ‘viewfinder has haze and fungus inside’. Otherwise, it was described as being in working condition. After a few weeks, I took it out with a roll of Lomochrome Turquoise, and…

This was supposed to be a ‘Gearing Up For The Crappy Commie Camera Party’ post, but I quickly discovered that the Zenit Horizon 202 panoramic film camera was not a Soviet-era camera, and so is not CCCP compliant. I guess that the prominent stamp ‘Made in Russia’ should have been a bit of a giveaway, but digging into the history of the Horizon 202 suggests that it was launched in 1993, a few years…

This sort of thing never happens to me. Back in January I was contacted by the marketing department of Harman Technology about a new product they were launching. ‘Please don’t share the information in this mail with anyone else as we haven’t shared it yet’, read the email. Well that sounded exciting. It continued, ‘We have a new product launching, probably later this month, which will be called…