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...
With color films often in short supply and prices continuing to increase, it was sad news when Fuji “paused” Superia X-TRA 400 in April of this year. It’s reasonable to se...
10 July, 2023
Rollei 35S “Art Machine” – My Early Experiences
The Rollei 35 may be the best secret of all. Introduced in 1966, this miniature 35mm film viewfinder camera is more than the sum of its beautifully engineered parts. With a litt...
Konica produced Sakura film (later simply rebranded to ‘Konica’). They were the second-largest film producer in Japan after Fujifilm. As well as their own films, they produced f...
6 July, 2023
Olympus OM1 – Return of a Classic
In order for you to understand why this camera is so important to me, I’ll have to take you back in the mid-90s. It shan’t be a long journey, I promise. For those of you who wer...
I stood at the cash register in my favorite camera store, waiting to pay for film. At my feet, in front of the counter was a carboard box containing several old cameras in vario...
