When an Ensign All Distance camera from 1927 came up on the local auction site, a wave of nostalgia saw me thinking about revisiting my first, very basic, box camera. Having own...
Smoke fills the crisp morning summer air. The thundering sounds of steam locomotion shake the ground. The clanking and creaking of railroad cars rolling up to the depot. The lig...
This isn’t a film review. These aren’t carefully selected photos. Last week, I went outside near my home with a roll of Kodak Technical Pan to make the most of some fog. The res...
20 February, 2023
Meyer Optik Görlitz 58mm f/1.5 Biotar II (The New Version) Review
This review of the Meyer Optik Görlitz 58mm f/1.5 Biotar II will be the 5th I have written about these new lenses from OPC Optics, the German company that own the Meyer Optik Gö...
In 1973, the year of the Minolta XM's launch, Minolta had been serving the consumer market very successfully for several years with the SR-T . There, it was a hard-to-beat queen...
10 February, 2023
Chroma Double Glass Lens – My First Shots – 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
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
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...
