28 July, 2023
AGIMatic – an Innovative British 35mm Film Camera
I’ve written before about the British camera industry. I've done a review of a medium format SLR from a company called 'Aeronautical General Instruments' (AGI). AGI were based i...
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24 July, 2023
Minolta X-300 Review – The Last Manual Focus SLR
In clearing out my late father’s stuff, I came across quite a few cameras. Dad was an instrument maker and specialized in optics. He used to buy up cameras out of ‘...
Konica produced Sakura film (later simply rebranded to ‘Konica’). They were the second-largest film producer in Japan after Fujifilm. As well as their own films, they produced f...
28 April, 2023
Konica TC and T4 SLRs – The Last of the Steam Powered Trains
Back in the 1970s competition in the SLR camera market was fierce. Most companies needed to innovate regularly to maintain their profile and market share. Konica had been buildi...
23 April, 2023
5 Frames with the Spinner 360°
I've had a thing about panoramas for some time and have experimented with rotation points and stitching software quite a bit over the years. Analogue panoramas are something els...
Dedicated panoramic cameras tend to be a bit pricey. This Lomography Spinner 360° is refreshingly affordable. It retails new for £89 on the Lomography website. I bought a shop-s...
15 January, 2023
Travelling from Pittsburgh to West Hollywood : Canonet 28 roll #5
You can read about the Travelling Canonet project here. We have over 50 photographers on 4 continents waiting to take part. Two Canonets are involved, each travelling in a diffe...
12 December, 2022
Praktica BX20 – End of the line for Pentacon – By Bob Janes
I’ve recently been shooting with a Praktica BX20, which was one of the last Praktica models produced by Pentacon before they were wound up in the wake of German unification.
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