9 August, 2024
Retina IIc and the Kodak Retina system
A few years ago my cousin passed her father’s Retina IIc on to me including a lens hood, a couple of filters and a 1958 copy of The Retina Way by O. R. Croy. This informative bo...
5 August, 2024
Leica CL – A Vindication
Born from a collaboration between Leitz and Minolta, the Leica CL was introduced in 1973 as a premium compact rangefinder camera with a 40mm Summicron lens as well as a 90mm f4,...
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 ...
1 August, 2024
Hasselblad SWC vs. Mamiya 7 with 43mm lens – A Personal Wide-Angle Medium Format Showdown
A few years ago I came to own both a Hasselblad SWC and a Mamiya 7 with a 43mm lens. Both cameras are medium format cameras with very wide-angle lenses. I have long tried to mai...
It all starts in the city of Portland, USA where my friend Claus Junker lives, someone who knows my passion for photography and cameras. In one of our regular calls, Claus told ...
29 July, 2024
Olympus OM2n – Best of Both Worlds?
As with most of my short reviews of cameras that I own or have owned in the past, I am going to discuss here how I personally see and understand this Olympus OM2n. Of course, th...
28 July, 2024
Ihagee Kine Exacta 1936 Round Window – Accidentally Discovering a Camera Brand I’d not heard of
I shot film back in the 1980’s with my Pentax ME Super. I sold it when I was broke and never really picked up a camera again until 2001 when my son was born. Since then I’ve own...
In this series, I have previous talked about the Sony R1 and Sony a700, in this review, we look back at the Sony NEX-7 Back in 2010, Sony were still committed to their inherited...
