PhotographyAttic Blog

12 Sep 2019 • cameras, News

An extremely rare and very early double-stroke, black paint Leica M3 will go under the hammer in a sale of Photographica by Chiswick Auctions on Thursday 14th November, 2019. This camera was…

16 Jan 2019 • Buying Guides

A teleconverter, also known as an extender, is a camera accessory that attaches between the lens and body of an interchangeable lens camera. They were made for 35mm and medium format cameras…

12 Jan 2019 • Buying Guides

There’s a video doing the rounds at the moment titled Leon The Professional. It’s being shared by photographers who’re impressed by the featured photographer’s home made “shooting” accessory.  The gent in question…

05 Dec 2018 • Filters, Tips

There’s a really interesting article about photographer John Duder going back and experimenting with filters he never got around to using in the 80s over on ePHOTOzine: Experimenting With Filters From the…

18 Mar 2018 • Buying Guides

A stepping ring is an adaptor that screws into the front of your lens to change the filter thread size. The idea is you can make one filter fit a number of…

09 Mar 2018 • Buying Guides, Lenses

Extension tubes are tubes without any optical elements that you place between the camera and lens of an interchangeable lens camera. They extend the lens so it can focus closer, giving the…

07 Mar 2018 • News

This seems like an interesting gadget to put on a Nikon SLR and convert the Laowa 12mm into a shift lens. ideal for architecture photographers. The converter is designed exclusively for Sony…

07 Mar 2018 • Photography Techniques

An amazing selection of snowflake macro photos and a article showing how to photograph snowflakes can be found on Alexey Kljatov’s ChaoticMind blog If you have an SLR you can reverse your…

07 Mar 2018 • Cameras

The I’m Back digital back turns your 35mm film camera into a digital camera. It will work with the following cameras: Nikon F, Nikon F2, Nikon FM, Nikon FE, Nikon S2, Canon…

24 Feb 2018 • Buying Guides

The BPM bellows system around in the 70s was a versatile system with mounts to accommodate most camera and lens fittings. But it wasn’t the only one. The likes of Soligor, Hama,…