Norisada was born in 1980 in Saitama Prefecture. From an early age he was interested in drawing and continued this as a primary means of expression until entering Bunka Fashion College, where studied fashion and clothes design. Five years ago he switched from fashion design to photography and began attending workshops from about three years ago. Most... 

I have done a comparison shoot between the following lenses: Carl Zeiss G Planar 45/2, Carl Zeiss Planar ZM 50/2 and Konica Hexanon 50/2 lenses, all in Leica M Mount. Please have a look at this dedicated page for the results and feel free to comment on it. Tweet... 

Sankyo Camera Co.'s Hiroatsu “Hero” Akizawa photographed by Barry Kawa Text and images by Barry Kawa for Japan Exposures At most train stations in Tokyo, there are still film stores that can develop a roll of film in 45 minutes or less, so you can stop back and pick up your pictures on the way through, and enjoy looking at them on your train... 

We are pleased to announce the Micro Four-Thirds (M4/3) T mount/C mount lens connector made by MS Optical. As usual this is a very high quality and smartly designed device. Not only is it made to usual MADE IN JAPAN precision, also unlike other cheaper adapters available it consists of two finely machined parts: an outer ring with a T-Mount (M42, 0.75)... 

We now have in stock several signed copies of Michio Yamauchi’s 人へ (hito e, or loosely translated as “to others”). Published in 1992, this is, like all of Yamauchi’s work, a very much in-your-face book, but perhaps even more so this time, as the majority of the book’s pages are taken up with faces. But these are far... 

Nobuhiro Fukui was born in 1972 in Naruto City in Tokushima Prefecture. In 2004, he participated in a year-long workshop with photographer Osamu Kanemura. In addition to solo shows in Tokyo (2005) and Berlin (2006), Fukui showed work in two Tokyo Wonder Site group exhibitions (2007): Wonder Seeds 2007 and Tokyo Painting – My Little Everyday Sceneries.... 

In my Islanders post I said that every photographer can learn something by trying out another than their usual format once in a while and while at the time of writing it I did not have the intention in mind to do this myself, a new 35mm rangefinder came my way (originally intended for our Camera Spare Part service) and I could not resist trying it... 

We now have in stock copies of the exhibition catalog for Toshio Shibata’s Landscape retrospective at The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, which sadly ends this week. Featuring all 72 works from the show, this catalog is an excellent way to have both Shibata’s older black and white and newer color landscape work in one volume —... 

As we noted a while ago, the production of this magnifier by MS Optical has been discontinued and it is now sold out. A lucky gentleman from Australia will receive the last item we had in stock (too bad, as I wanted to keep one of those for myself . There is still hope for a re-release as MS Optical indicated to me that they are contemplating manufacturing...