Compact Cameras Archives

12 April, 2023

Olympus XA2 – A Brief Guide to my Every Day Carry Camera

By Sean Arntz

The Olympus XA2 is tiny, it is quick to turn on, it's zone focus, and has a brilliant lens. In my humble opinion, it is the best EDC (every day carry) and travel camera, and a g...

3 April, 2023

Lomography Spinner 360° review – Analogue Panorama Shots on the Cheap

By Bob Janes

Dedicated panoramic cameras tend to be a bit pricey. This Lomography Spinner 360° is refreshingly affordable. It retails new for £89 on the Lomography website. I bought a shop-s...

5 February, 2023

Leica Mini Zoom – A Whole (Test) Roll with Kodak Gold 200

By Dylan Thissen

I got the camera bug from my parents. Neither of them are professional photographers but both enjoy photography and regularly took me to galleries as a kid. I think I took photo...

5 December, 2022

Nikon 35 Ti – Long Term Impressions – By Lennart Klein

By Lennart Klein

A typical Bremisch January day is over, and depressing rain is hammering against my living room window. I'm lying on the couch staring at my camera collection, thinking about my...

31 October, 2022

Voigtländer Vito IIa Review – Going Full Circle – By Tony Warren

By Tony Warren

In 1955, having attained the grand old age of 16 and somehow managed to pass 8 of the 9 GCE O-levels I had sat, I received a neat little blue and silver box as a reward for one ...

28 October, 2022

Olympus Trip 35 on Holiday – Part 1 – Keeping it Simple in New Zealand – by David Hume

By David Hume

The Olympus Trip 35 is a compact 35mm viewfinder camera released in the late 1960s that sold millions of units and had a long production run. It’s a famous benchmark camera for ...

13 October, 2022

Alfie Tych Preview – An Eccentric Camera that Fits in the Palm of Your Hand

By Hamish Gill

The Alfie Tych launched on Kickstarter a few weeks ago, and has just a few days left. It’s a brand new, extremely compact, half frame film camera with, I hope, a bright future a...

10 October, 2022

CONTAX T – The 1st One – A Compact, Manually-Focused Rangefinder

By grain_frame

The Contax T is a compact rangefinder introduced in 1984. It was the first in what would become a line of premium point-and-shoot cameras, a segment pioneered by Contax. It was ...

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