My Five Favourite Books on Writing: in celebration of National Grammar Day 2023
Taking nifty photos takes skill. Writing about taking nifty photos also takes skill, but of a different kind. If you aim to write about...
Rock n Roll Small Havana camera bag: A mini Tardis for all your gear
Jonathan Slack tries out the Rock n Roll Small Havana camera bag, made from novel materials and holding more than you would have thought...
The Pre-Tech Office 1: Behind the banking desk in the historic 1960s
Office life in the 1960s — manual typewriters, no computers, hard-slog hands-on labour. Mike takes a look into the past...
ChatGPT artificial intelligence gets to grips with the world of Leica
ChatGPT, the new AI freeform composer gets to grips with some pretty esoteric Leica stuff. Is it useful, is it about to replace the editor of Macfilos in the near future. Mike sets out to challenge the bot...
My Curated Life: Photography meets poetry with a Persian twist
In the spirit of breaking new ground and in keeping with Macfilos's coverage of all things Leica and L-mount, here is a variant on...
Leica M Digitals: The lengthening timeline
As we wait for the fifth version of the digital Leica M, the M11, Mike reflects on the past 16 years of models and seemingly increasing interval between major upgrades...
Back to basics with the MacBook Air
Mike break's a long-standing aversion to buying the basic computer. Instead of ticking all the upgrade boxes, he's chosen the cheapest, the most basic MacBook Air. Will it prove sensible or will he regret that 256GB disk in particular...
Parker 51: The Leica M3 of the pen world offers a peerless writing experience
5 YEARS AGO ON MACFILOS
What were you up to five years ago?
Well, I was enjoying a reunion with the iconic (overused word, that,...
Authors and their typewriters: From Salinger to Christie
Everyone's a budding author these days, thanks to the computer and the internet. But spare a thought for the logistics of the 20th century when the mechanical typewriter was the weapon of choice...
Olivetti Lettera 22 at seventy: The typewriter lives on
The typewriter has played a huge role in the story of my life. Before the computer, before the computer and before instant communication, the mechanical typewriter was paramount...
On this day in 1945: The ballpoint pen, a revolution in writing, rocked New...
The humble ballpoint pen dates back 132 years. But it reached prime time on this day in 1945 when Gimbels department store in New York sold 30,000 pens at $12.50 each in the first week...
Grammarly: For the writers who think they don’t need it
Are you an immaculate writer, never putting a comma wrong? If so, perhaps you don't need Grammarly. But, for the rest of us, it has it's uses (sorry, its).
William Hannah’s new pen case and notebook fastener
William Hannah's leather-bound loose-leaf notebooks are the best. But that's just my opinion. Now you can add an elastic fastener and a colour-matching leather pencase. It makes a perfect Christmas present.
Procrastinating all the way to the trash can
The Most Dangerous Typing app will eat your words if you don't keep typing. It's not the app for the avid procrastinator as Mike finds out....
Typewriters and the Mueller touch
Did Mueller himself type his report? The two-space-after-stop convention leads to suspicion....
