Japan Exposures including our Web and Book Stores will take a holiday starting July 9th until the end of July. The cut-off for Hirano hand-made camera cases was Friday, June 29th. Orders placed on or after these dates will be processed and shipped upon our return in August. Orders for products that are currently backordered might also be shipped in... 

Due to recent events in Japan, the Japan Exposures Web Shop will take a holiday starting March 20th, 2011 until the middle of April to take care of family matters. All orders placed on or after these dates will be processed and shipped upon our return in April. The same goes for all currently processing/unshipped orders. If you wish to cancel your pending... 

Update: We are happy to report that as of December 1st, Japan Post has started to once again allow Airmail packages bound for the U.S. Due to tighter security measures related to cargo bound for the United States, which includes international mail, as of this Wednesday, November 17, Japan Post will for the foreseeable future not accept Airmail packages... 

The Japan Exposures Web Shop will take a holiday starting October 18th until the middle of November. The cut-off for Hirano hand-made camera cases is Friday, Oct 8th. Orders placed on or after these dates will be processed and shipped upon our return in November. Orders for products that are currently backordered, for example the MS Optical Super Triplet... 

The Japan Exposures Book Shop has returned from its break and things are back to normal. Now it will be the general Web Shop’s turn to take a holiday, which will be from August 10th until September 10th. However, there is a good chance that you won’t notice much of it as we will continue operations almost as normal. Everything will run as... 

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... 

As you know we have been offering lens modification services for Leica mounts via MS Optical for a while now. We have recently received many requests from folks out there who would like to have a Carl Zeiss Contax G lens on their Leica M mount camera but don’t already own the lenses. As an alternative to sending us a G lens for conversion, we...