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25 November, 2019

Pentax-M 40mm f/2.8 and Pentax MX – imperfect, but pocketable!

By Hamish Gill

In my recent Pentax MX review I touched on the fact that I’d only really been shooting it with the 40mm f/2.8 pancake lens. This is a lens that seems to divide opinion a little ...

22 November, 2019

Pentax MV-1 & 40mm f/2.8 Review – A Quest For an Ideal Compact Film SLR – Part 1 – by Ed Lara

By Photoedontheweb

My GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) setting was kicked up a notch recently as a result of falling in love with the Olympus XA. The XA is a great camera, but despite my small hand...

15 November, 2019

Fuji Natura 1600 & Shooting Star Trails and at Night – By Bill Thoo

By Bill Thoo

I have the privilege of travelling for work to the Central West of New South Wales twice a year. After hours are typically my own, and I usually take those opportunities for pho...

14 November, 2019

Canon 28mm f/2.8 LTM – A Short Review – By Atanas Grozdev

By Photo-g-rap-her

I started to shoot on film in a cold winter of 2014. I used to shoot mainly with compact film cameras with color negative film, were I tried to test as many as possible of them....

13 November, 2019

Balda Baldix – A mini-review of 1950’s Folder – By Dave Donnelly

By Dave Donnelly

I forget how I acquired this Balda Baldix camera but I love the compact nature of it, and how it "pops" out at the touch of button on top which never fails to amuse me. This is ...

12 November, 2019

Fuji C200 Review – A short note on my Enduring Love for this film – By Phil Stefans

By PhilStefans

OK yes it’s cheap. Fuji C200 is one of the cheapest 35mm colour films on the market. But if Portra 400 was the same price as C200, I’d still pick the Fuji most of the time. I’m ...

11 November, 2019

Pentax MX – My Nuts and Bolts Review

By Hamish Gill

I recently kicked off a bit of a series of posts talking about my experiences with my Pentax MX. In that first post, I talked a bit about how I didn’t want to just review the ca...

10 November, 2019

Olympus XA – Digital Palate Cleansing – By Ed Lara

By Photoedontheweb

As much as I love the immediacy of digital photography, I occasionally get overwhelmed and overloaded by the sheer volume of images I take with my digital cameras or my iPhone. ...

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