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26 July, 2023

Kodak Colorplus 200 Colour Negative Film Mini-Review

By Tony Warren

Recently I thought I would give colour negative film a try again having used a great deal of this film type in the past, which I used to process myself in Neofin Colour chemistr...

26 July, 2023

Free Photo Editing Apps – A Comparison and some Personal Experiences

By Paul Sauve

Before the new cell phones, I had several 35mm film cameras, digital point & shoot cameras and eventually splurged for a DSLR. The two P&S models were a Panasonic DMC-LS...

24 July, 2023

Minolta X-300 Review – The Last Manual Focus SLR

By Bob Janes

In clearing out my late father’s stuff, I came across quite a few cameras. Dad was an instrument maker and specialized in optics. He used to buy up cameras out of ‘bargain bins’...

21 July, 2023

Contax G2 – The Finest Camera Ever to See my Minds Eye

By Ibraar Hussain

Back in 2005 I had just started getting back into shooting Film and had bought a Minolta Dynax 5 to accompany my Konica Minolta 7D DSLR. What I then wanted was a Leica – almost ...

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 ...

19 July, 2023

Goerz Tenax 6×9 – A Genius Design

By Geoff Chaplin

A medium format camera that weighs just 536g, only twice as thick as my smartphone and fits into my jeans back pocket! Why don’t they make more cameras like this? The above phot...

18 July, 2023

Marshal Press – A 5 Frame Mini-Review with CineStill XX

By Jacob Brookie

I began collecting cameras at the age of eleven, and I have fond memories of sitting on a beanbag with an ice block in one hand and a copy of the McKeown’s guide in another. I’d...

17 July, 2023

Canon EOS 3 Review – The Good, The Bad, The Heavy

By Campbell King

As with many young New Zealanders, my view on the world beyond our pacific isolation was formed on the images and articles presented in moth-balled National Geographic magazines...

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