In the late summer of 2020 I started off a film challenge over on Dyxum. I planned to shoot a whole bunch of cameras including an OM camera. Now, my own OM-1, which is an early ...
Bob Janes's Posts
19 December, 2021
An Open Invitation to the Travelling Canonet project – By Bob Janes
Anyone fancies getting involved in a travelling camera project...?
Many years ago over at Dyxum we had a community activity that was suggested by James Muñoz (a top film sound ...
8 November, 2021
Konica Auto S3 – Small and Perfectly Formed – By Bob Janes
Coinciding with their centenary in the early 70s, Konica fused two of their camera lines together. Since 1968 they had made a compact rangefinder camera called the C35. They had...
1 November, 2021
Canonet Review – 43 Years in Preparation – By Bob Janes
In a way, this Canonet review has been 43 years in preparation. I was a teenager when I got into photography. I used to borrow my father’s various rangefinder cameras: fixed len...
This article is mainly a review of an unusual lens - Minolta AF Reflex 500 – one of the few Autofocusing Catadioptric lenses to be made. I also have a Korean-made manual focus ‘...
19 October, 2021
Pentax Auto 110 Review – By Bob Janes
About a year ago, I had the idea of running film through a couple of borrowed 110 cameras and possibly writing up a review. This seems to have ended up as a mini odyssey around ...
The best camera is the one you have with you. Now we have camera phones that fit in our pockets: back in the 1950s cameras were larger and were made of materials that were compa...
9 July, 2021
Plustek OpticFilm 135i Review Part II – Panoramic Film Holder and Investigating ‘Panorama Mode’ – By Bob Janes
Earlier in 2021 I put up a review of the Plustek OpticFilm 135i film scanner. Just recently I've been investigating the Panoramic film holder and 'Panorama mode' (which you can ...