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20 April, 2018

Good night sweetheart & my little rant about toothpaste

By Hamish Gill

Anil Mistry has become a fairly regular contributor to this website, I’ve also met him on a photowalk, joined his Unusual Eyes photo group of his on Facebook, helped him sell so...

19 April, 2018

5 frames with a Leica M6 TTL and 7artisans 35mm f/2 Sonnar – by EMULSIVE

By EMULSIVE

I guess I should start off by saying that I’m not a fan of the 35mm focal length and with SLRs at least, I’ve never gotten on with it. It feels too wide but then aga...

18 April, 2018

5 Frames with the Minolta Maxxum 7000 – By Chris McPhee

By Chris McPhee

I was recently looking for another 35mm camera and, browsing the web one lunchtime, I came across some reviews of the Minolta Maxxum 7000. A while later I found one at a local c...

17 April, 2018

5 frames with a Nikon FM3A and Nikkor 28-70mm 2.8 D – by John Whitmore

By John Whitmore

Dang, this lens is heavy. It seems to pull on the body of the FM3a as if it’s trying to escape using gravity as a weapon and 900g as ammunition. But little does it know that al...

15 April, 2018

Beers & Cameras Birmingham – 24/03/18 – and, how we didn’t let the racists ruin our day…

By Hamish Gill

A couple of weeks ago I met up with around 20 other photographers in the centre of Birmingham for a bit of a Beers & Cameras photowalk. We met some angry football fans, angry an...

15 April, 2018

The Sunbeams Analogue photography news: Sporty shots and sagging mattresses

By The Sunbeams

Hey readers, it’s us again, back from overindulging on Easter eggs to you catch up on events at Sunny 16 Towers. Ironically, although we see much from our lofty vantage po...

14 April, 2018

Konica AA-35 Reporter Review – By John Furlong

By John Furlong

I’ve always been attracted to the half-frame format and have examples of the Russian variants and the Canon and Olympus models. I was particularly interested in the Konica AA-35...

14 April, 2018

First roll with a Leica II – by KJ Vogelius

By KJ Vogelius

I suddenly find myself a day to day nomad. Working in three different offices I still feel a little like a tourist in the neighbourhoods I now spend most days. The past few mont...

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Yeah, just to back up the author’s response here, FSU is definitely a standard way of referring to these cameras.…
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