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26 August, 2018

Contax TVSii – a review with a few comparisons to the T2

By Hamish Gill

The Contax TVSii is the 2nd of 3 zoom lens cameras in the Contax T range - the TVS came before, and the TVSiii followed. Though quite similar in appearance to the fixed focal le...

25 August, 2018

5 Frames With A Chinon 35EE – By Nigel Cliff

By Nigel Cliff

I won’t bore you with a life history, suffice to say I have been photographing for 42 years through manual focus, onto autofocus, onto digital with AF everything; and then for t...

24 August, 2018

5 Frames with the Pentax 67 – By Louis Sousa

By LASousa

The Pentax 67 is out of character for 35mmc being big and hardly pocketable. My mirror lockup model was sourced from Jeremy at Japan Camera Hunter. Since obtaining the camera I'...

23 August, 2018

5 Frames with a Nikon F4S and Nikkor 35mm f/2.8 AI and Adox CMS II – By Toni Skokovic

By Toni Skokovic

Earlier this year (2018), I finally woke up to the reality of Nikon being the most natural camera platform for me. The Nikon grip felt right and various Nikon cameras were the o...

22 August, 2018

5 Frames with a Konica Hexar AF – By James Nguyen

By hoangtu1998

My name is James Nguyen and I’m a 20 year old Vietnamese hospitality student, photography hobbyist, studying in Switzerland. I have now sold my Konica Hexar AF, but to be hones...

21 August, 2018

5 Frames with the Summishica – By Andy Karlson

By Andy Karlson

I've returned to film photography fairly recently, having impulsively bought a Yashica TL-Super (plus three lenses and a parts body) for $30 at a garage sale last September. Sin...

20 August, 2018

5 Frames with an Olympus mju-i – By Gregoire Huret

By Gregoire Huret

As everyone knows, France won the 2018 football world cup. As a number one fan of our football team, of course I followed this world cup with a lot of madness and zero objectivi...

19 August, 2018

Plaubel Makina 67 Review – the Beginning and end of my Journey into Medium Format

By Hamish Gill

The Plaubel Makina 67 is a camera that I’ve long struggled to justify, but that simultaneously has on multiple occasions, given me the worst cases of gear acquisition syndrome I...

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