Drew Chambers, Author at Casual Photophile

January 12, 2022

Reviewing My Time with the Konica Hexar RF

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Drew reviews the Konica Hexar RF, a 35mm film rangefinder camera that blends manual and automatic functions in an interesting way.

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October 21, 2020

Voigtlander Ultra Wide-Heliar 12mm f/5.6 Aspherical III M Mount Lens Review

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Drew reviews the outrageously wide Voigtlander Ultra Wide-Heliar 12mm f/5.6 Aspherical III in Leica M mount!

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July 23, 2020

Leveling Up with a Linhof Technika 4×5 Film Camera

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Drew explores the “level up cuture” of photography through his journey to (and then away from) large format photography with a Linhof 4×5 film camera.

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April 29, 2020

Contax 167MT Camera Review

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Drew reviews the Contax 167MT, a full-featured 35mm film SLR from the glory days of the Japanese-made Contax cameras.

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March 9, 2020

Contax NX – a Multi-User Review of the Last Contax SLR

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The Contax NX was among the last ever Contax 35mm film cameras. In our multi-user review, Drew and James share their thoughts on this sleek SLR.

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March 4, 2020

Monthly Photo Challenge for March 2020 – The Photo-Stay

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We’re back with a new monthly photo challenge, and this time we’ve invented an entirely new way to photo! You’ve heard of the photowalk. Meet the photostay.

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Monthly Photo Challenge

January 20, 2020

Shooting Coastal Maine with a Mamiya 645 and Kodak Film

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Drew’s first foray into medium format came by way of the Mamiya 645 1000s on the rocky New England shores of Midcoast Maine.

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January 7, 2020

Ghosts of Portra Past – Shooting Kodak Portra 400 VC and 160 NC Today

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Drew shoots, compares, and muses over Portra 400 VC and Portra 160 NC, two formerly-loved and famously dead films from Kodak.

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July 1, 2019

Negative Supply Film Carrier MK1 Kickstarter Launches Today

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Negative Supply announces the Kickstarter for their Film Carrier MK 1, a new solution for scanning and digitizing film with your DSLR or mirror-less camera.

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April 24, 2019

The Contax G1 Takes on the World

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From my first foray into modern film photography, I was confronted by the apparent supremacy of Leica and its M mount. But for some reason, the Leica bug has never seemed to bite me. To…

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March 8, 2019

“Everything starts with light” – An Oral History of Ara Güler

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Ara Güler’s first published interview incited a riot. He’d taken his Graflex Speed Graphic, paired with a flash, to the Kumkapi ports of Istanbul under cover of the morning’s darkest early hours. On the waters…

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Five Favorite Photos

February 1, 2019

Fujicolor Industrial 100 – Film Profile

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The simplest, most cost-effective way to jazz up one’s film photography is to spring for a new film stock. Sure, you could seek a rare lens or a unique body, but nothing beats the ease…

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November 19, 2018

The Canon Canonet 28 – A Camera Made for Taking it Easy

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We’ve talked about the Canon New Canonet 28’s faster relatives twice before; our reviews of the New Canonet QL17 and that camera’s successor, the Canonet G-III (QL) 17, both spoke in glowing terms. And rightly…

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