In the mid 1970s Olympus had a nice range of compact cameras, going from the 1/2 frame Pen to the Sophisticated 35RD. Two of these cameras are the subject of this comparison rev...
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21 May, 2025
Paterson, old and new – A Tale of Two Tanks
Having recently completed a review of the LOMO daylight developing tank, I was drawn to think more about what for me has simply become part of the furniture for my processing re...
This is an odd review because rather than being a review of a camera, it is a review of a Lego model of a camera. For my {hurumphty}3 rd birthday, one of my sons and his wife bo...
25 April, 2025
Contax G1 – A thing of Beauty…
Back in 1932, following on from Leitz’s success with the Leica, Carl Zeiss introduced a competing interchangeable lens rangefinder: this was the Contax. Unlike the Leica, ...
21 April, 2025
Lomo Daylight developing tank – A review
Lomo have released a new daylight tank that avoids the need for a changing bag. They were kind enough to lend me a copy for this review. Because the tank relies on having the fi...
In this series, I have previous talked about the Sony R1 and Sony a700, in this review, we look back at the Sony NEX-7 Back in 2010, Sony were still committed to their inherited...
In part 1, I talked about the Sony R1, this part is about a camera that represents another key moment in Sony’s APS-C camera history, the Sony a700. In July 2005 Sony anno...
This is the first of three reviews I’m preparing, looking at Sony’s APS-C camera range spanning 6 years and showing the three separate approaches they took in that time. Two yea...