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10 February, 2023

Chroma Double Glass Lens – My First Shots – by Sonny Rosenberg

By sonny rosenberg

I first heard of the Chroma Double Glass lens in a post here on 35mmc. A new 24mm extremely compact and inexpensive fixed focus, fixed aperture lens for Leica screw mount defini...

6 February, 2023

Canon EF Camera review – The F-1’s Little Sibling – By Thomas

By Thomas

The Canon EF is a special film camera. Because of its name, if you type Canon EF in any search bar, you'll find all the existing Canon EF lenses before you find anything about t...

5 February, 2023

Leica Mini Zoom – A Whole (Test) Roll with Kodak Gold 200

By Dylan Thissen

I got the camera bug from my parents. Neither of them are professional photographers but both enjoy photography and regularly took me to galleries as a kid. I think I took photo...

3 February, 2023

Kodak Junior No. 1A Autographic – Song of the Centenarian – from the 1920s to the 2020s – By Simon Foale

By Simon Foale

This camera was one of several given to me recently by my dad. I have already posted on another from this lot – the Zeiss (Ikon) Contina 1 (522/24). The Kodak is by far the olde...

2 February, 2023

Hedeco Lime Two Low Profile Shoe Mount Light Meter Review

By Hamish Gill

I’ve just received a pair of brand new Hedeco Lime Two light meters. As you might gather from the name, this is the second iteration of the Lime meter from the German brand, and...

31 January, 2023

A Photographers Vest – Better Late than Never!

By Dave Powell

A LONG time ago, Kate gave me this photographer’s vest for Christmas. I’m not a clothes horse, but it took decades for me to not feel self-conscious about wearing it.I finally d...

30 January, 2023

Voigtlander Ultron 40mm f2 SL II for Pentax K Review – By Aivaras

By Aivaras

I promised to get back with more “exotic” stories from the Pentax film world, and here I am! I’d like to share my experience with the Voigtlander 40mm lens in Pentax K mount. Mo...

20 January, 2023

Finding my ideal 6×9 folder – Largest Negative in a Compact Travel Format – by Zheng Li

By Zheng Li

I have owned and used many different types of medium format cameras (TLR, SLR, folder, rigid body rangefinder), and I enjoy all of them for different reasons. But this article i...

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