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20 December, 2024

NEWS: Introducing the Omnar 35mm f/3.5 Pantessa FLB (YS35-35FLB)

By Hamish Gill

The Omnar 35mm f/3.5 Pantessa (short for pancake-tessar) is a limited-edition rehousing of the Carl Zeiss 35mm f/3.5 optics found in the Yashica T, T3, T4 and T5 Super cameras. ...

A blue Petri Color 35 with a few toys for added color.

20 December, 2024

Petri Color 35 – A Love Letter to a favourite camera

By Kohtli

I’d like to talk about one of my favourite cameras, the Petri Color 35. Now sure you might be thinking that this is an odd choice. And to a certain extent you’d be r...

18 December, 2024

Viltrox AF 35mm 1.7 Z DX – A new nifty fifty prime lens for the Nikon DX system

By Mike Brooks

If you grew up in the analogue age, chances are your first 35mm camera came with a fifty millimeter “kit” lens. These “nifty 50s” were reasonably small, reasonably bright, reaso...

18 December, 2024

Agfa Ambi Silette – First Roll Reflections

By Bob Israel

During a recent visit to a favorite antique store, I went to my favorite display case which were filled with cameras. One never knows what will be there and so it’s fun to...

16 December, 2024

Samyang Remaster Slim – a 3-for-1 Pancake Lens Review

By Hamish Gill

The Samyang Remaster Slim is possibly one of the most unusual lenses I have reviewed on this website – it’s a lens that I was more intrigued by than a great deal of the le...

13 December, 2024

Olympus Trip 35 – Shooting my black camera in Munich

By Paul Lamb

The streets of Munich were the perfect place to put my black Olympus Trip 35 to the test. There’s nothing like exploring new places to get enthusiastic about taking pictures. An...

12 December, 2024

Zhiyun Molus X60 RGB Light Review – Documenting a Daoist Idol Makers’ Workshop

By Sroyon

My phone buzzes with a text from my new friend Tze Yong. “Xuántiān Shàngdì (玄天上帝), also known as True Warrior Great Emperor (真武大帝), is a prominent deity in Taoism,...

11 December, 2024

GoPro – Treating a Action cam Like a Point & Shoot

By Sebastian Shields

GoPros seem to be something that people buy then never use, in fact I’m guilty of this myself. There’s long been an association with GoPro and the intense and dramatic action sp...

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