24 July, 2023
Minolta X-300 Review – The Last Manual Focus SLR
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
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 ...
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
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
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
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...
14 July, 2023
Kodak DC3200 – Kodak’s Digital Automatic Box Camera
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...
13 July, 2023
Pentax LX – Shooting My Wife’s Camera
The camera had been lying around in a cupboard for a long long time so, since it wasn’t being used, I sold it. “You gave me that camera as an engagement present!!!” said my wife...
