28 July, 2023
AGIMatic – an Innovative British 35mm Film Camera
I’ve written before about the British camera industry. I've done a review of a medium format SLR from a company called 'Aeronautical General Instruments' (AGI). AGI were based i...
26 July, 2023
Kodak Colorplus 200 Colour Negative Film Mini-Review
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...
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
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...
