Last year, my wife rang me from a boot sale and asked if I was interested in a camera called a Rollei 35. I did a quick bit of Googling and,…
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It feels like an age since my summer holiday, but I’ve been so busy with one thing and another that since then I’ve not yet had the chance to write about…
Guest Reviews Scale FocusCanon Demi C – Half-frame with a tele lens – Guest review by Tobias Eriksson
The following review is of the Demi C - to my knowledge, along with the Olympus Pen F and FT model SLR cameras it's the only half frame with interchangeable lenses. Actually this…
Guest Reviews Scale FocusAdventures in Half Frame Part 1 – The Olympus Pen EE-2 – Guest Post by Anil Mistry
...The solution? Shoot less, or shoot more for the same amount of money. The former isn’t an option, but the latter? ...hmmm......This thought led me down a little side alley of…
Guest Reviews Scale FocusRetinette 1A Review – A compact piece of Kodak History – Guest review by Carlos Argott
Introduced in 1939, the Retinette was one of these cameras, designed to be a cheaper alternative to the more famous Retina series, it is still a very capable camera and much…
Scale Focus Thoughts on Shooting FilmUnderwater Film Photography With The Nikonos V – Guest Post by Aukje
I can't remember exactly what triggered the idea to shoot underwater with a film camera first: a mention of the Nikonos camera in my twitter feed, or the painterly effect I…
Guest Reviews Scale FocusShooting Square with the Zeiss Ikon Taxona – Guest post by Rajmohan Fotograf
Being aware of square format only in the context of medium format cameras, I was intrigued by a recent thread in a photography forum in which 35mm square format cameras (such…
Guest Reviews Scale FocusThe Minox 35GT, Ilford HP5 and the streets of Berlin – Guest post by Jean-Christophe Wiart
When I think about Berlin, there are tons of things that cross my mind; there's the famed subculture of this city, and places like the Kunsthaus Tacheles, the wall, the wastelands…
This year I went on two short city trips, both times having the Olympus Trip35 in my pockets. It was quite a tough decision which camera to take with me.…
