This is an interesting new lens mount adapter from Rayqual, which allows mounting of various SLR mount lenses on Leica M or Leica Screw Mount (LTM) mount rangefinder cameras. While the adapter is not fully rangefinder coupled, it will facilitate focussing much more than any other adapter. It will set the camera’s rangefinder to a fixed distance... 

Osamu Shiihara was born in Osaka in 1905, and graduated from the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (now named the Tokyo University of the Arts, or known popularly as “Geidai”) in 1932 after studying in the Western painting department. While trying to establish himself as a painter in Hyogo Prefecture, he took up photography and became a leading... 

When you hear the term photo magazine, it is difficult to not immediately jump onto the association of a colorful, glossy and above all, camera- and ad-guzzling publication we are all too familiar with. However, when Atsushi Fujiwara, photographer, photo studio manager and publisher of Asphalt contacted us to present the photo magazine he is publishing,... 

Japan Exposures is pleased to present a selection of images from Asphalt Magazine issues 1-5, published by Atsushi Fujiwara and Shin-ichiro Tojimbara, and edited by Akira Hasegawa. Please also see our Feature on Asphalt Magazine. .gallery-item {width: 50%;} // Atsushi Fujiwara from DISCORD (Asphalt I) Atsushi Fujiwara from DISCORD (Asphalt... 

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George Hashiguchi is we suspect not a household name for our overseas readers. But to our mind, even though he’ll never get the love that someone like Hiroh Kikai enjoys, he’s one of the finest portrait photographers in Japan — a modern August Sander of Japan, if we may be so bold. Seventeen (17歳), by George Hashiguchi Pub. by Kadokawa... 

Rickshaw Driver, Ginza,Tokyo, 1938. Photograph by Hiroshi Hamaya Review by Lars Epstein for Japan Exposures. The photographer Hiroshi Hamaya (1915-1999) was only 16 years old when in 1931, with his then-new Leica camera, he took the oldest of the pictures displayed in the photographic exhibition “Tokyo Stories”, which opened at the Kulturhuset... 

We are pleased to announce the addition of a Mamiya 7/7II and Fujifilm TX-1/Hasselblad Xpan version to our popular range of hand-made leather camera cases. “The case looks absolutely fantastic!!” Customer who purchased the TX-1 case, from Hong Kong The irreplaceable aspect of a skilled craftsman is that unlike a machine in a factory, he can... 

Masahito Agake was born in Tokyo in 1969, and works professionally as an architect. In the early 90s Agake began shooting casually while scuba diving, and after coming across the work of Aleksandr Rodchenko and W. Eugene Smith in 1996, he took up photography more seriously. He had his first exhibition at Tokyo’s Place M gallery in 2003, and since... 

Even though there is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described, the world that we live in is hardly a factual affair. Emotions, perceptions and an infinite number of combinations between the two make our lives much more of a mystery than we would like to believe. Certain is nothing. What was a given yesterday is full of vague and potential eventualities...