Digital Cameras

Digital Camera Reviews – Digital cameras have been increasingly and more frequently reviewed on this website over the years. What differentiates the digital camera reviews you will find on 35mmc from those you find on many other websites, is that they are often written by people who have more of a penchant for film cameras.

As such, the reviews might be a little more about the experience of shooting the camera than the objective quality of the results. You might also find reviews of digital cameras that are quite old but continue to be used by their owners for a range of reasons beyond which one has the most megapickles, or is better in lower light.

As with all the content on this website, if you find something of interest, you can find more similar products by clicking on the tags you will find at the bottom of the reviews.

20 July, 2023

Panasonic LX3 – 8 Months with a 14 Year Old Point and Shoot

By Max Tiraquon

It all started when Hamish wrote this article The Rise of the Vintage Digital Camera back in March 2022. After a bit of extra research into the LX3 including this YouTube video ...

14 July, 2023

Kodak DC3200 – Kodak’s Digital Automatic Box Camera

By Scott Gitlin

Join me on my trip in the Way-Back Machine to the year 2000. I am wandering through the aisles of a big-box retailer and naturally gravitate to the camera department. There I se...

5 June, 2023

Sony Mavica Floppy Disk Camera and the Shitty Camera Challenge

By Floppy Disk Squad

The Shitty Camera Challenge is the antidote to photography competitions. Instead of celebrating the best that cameras have to offer it celebrates the worst. You have a Leica, fo...

10 April, 2023

Nikon D40 – an Ode to my First “real” Camera

By Kary Schumpert

(The idea of an ode to my first "real" and favorite camera is inspired by Pablo Neruda’s Odes to Ordinary Things. I love that we can pay allegiance to those beautiful, ordinary ...

31 March, 2023

Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D – Nostalgic liaison with an old flame

By Ibraar Hussain

Ah nostalgia, it’s a strange thing and forms a part of every one’s life and the older one gets the more the past seems so rose tinted. My first Digital SLR was a Konica Minolta ...

6 March, 2023

Sony DSC-R1 Review – A Surprisingly Usable Vintage Digital Camera – By Matthew Bigwood

By Matthew Bigwood

The Sony DSC-R1 is one of many cameras on a list of ‘I would have liked this when it was new, but I couldn’t justify or afford it’, but I did manage to track down one on eBay la...

24 October, 2022

Canon 1Ds Review – Happy 20th Birthday to One of the First Full Frame DSLRs – By Brian M Cox

By brian m cox

Canon released the Canon 1Ds on September 24th 2002. It was one of worlds the first full frame DSLRs. It was also in sept of 2002 the US got its first Camera phone. Brittany Spe...

23 September, 2022

Hasselblad H1 – An Accidental Journey into Phase One P Series Digital Backs – By Bill Thoo

By Bill Thoo

I bought a Hasselblad H1 by accident. Like it’s older cousin, the Hasselblad V, the H series is modular. It has options for batteries, viewfinders, and camera backs, in addition...

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