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18 September, 2024

Chinon Auto 3501 – Ugly, Noisy and Quite Capable

By Keith Drysdale

A Lucky Find in a Antiques Shop It is rare for us to be able to get away for a few days break, but we managed to escape to Moffat in South West Scotland and to record the occasi...

7 September, 2024

Holga Micro-110 – How low(fi) can you go?

By Neal Wellons

I am a camera collector and have cameras in formats from Minox to 5×7 and I have shot most of them. I am also a photography addict and have to get out every week or so and...

2 August, 2024

5 Frames with a Voigtlander Bessa L – Broken in Just the Right Way

By David Tan

I have always been fascinated by rangefinder cameras. Their namesake’s original application around the turn of the 19th century in naval gunnery had piqued my interest at first ...

22 July, 2024

Rollei B35 – the German Cousin from Singapore

By Julian Tanase

Back in the early 90s, when I became acquainted to Minox 8×11 cameras, I also started to get an interest in 16mm / 110 film photography. To this day, I still believe they belong...

5 July, 2024

Pentax Auto 110 – My First Experiences

By Tony Warren

This subminGAS is a dangerous thing! I was recently tempted by a Pentax Auto 110, being sold locally for not much more than ‘spares or repair” money and described as ‘collectibl...

3 July, 2024

Holga Tips from a Holga Nut

By Neal Wellons

If you have never shot a Holga, please don’t let this article make you think that Holgas have lots of problems and are complicated to shoot. My first Holga roll ever had lots o...

30 June, 2024

Rollei A110 – Bringing It Back From The Dead

By Neal Wellons

I perked up listening to a recent podcast when one of the hosts mentioned he had owned 5 Rollei A110 cameras and none of them worked. I realized that I might have already solve...

17 June, 2024

Pentax 17 Comprehensive Review – The New Half-Frame Point & Shoot

By Hamish Gill

I’ve been writing about film cameras for a long time now, but the release of a new film camera from a major brand like Pentax feels somehow more significant than most, if not al...

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