620 film

4 min read 2023-01-02 18:01:00

Sawyers Nomad 620 box camera: A Portland made camera!

After getting my Ricohflex Dia in spring, finding a simple medium format box camera wasn’t really a priority. Why go backwards? But there was one

2 min read 2022-03-08 12:00:00

My college chum Bill contacted me recently to ask if I’d like to own a camera that had belonged to his grandmother. Well, of course I would. Bill

8 min read 2021-02-17 17:00:00

I have always had a thing for folding cameras. They sure look impressive to me! But many of them are low-end cameras with limited capabilities. I

7 min read 2019-10-09 16:00:00

With waist-level ground-glass viewfinders and coupled high-quality viewing and taking lenses that focus in concert, real twin-lens reflex (TLR)

5 min read 2019-08-02 16:00:00

Shooting film is fun. Figuring out where to get it processed, scanned, and printed is not. I’ve tried a lot of mail-order labs over the years and