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23 August, 2025

Breathing New Life into Old Cameras – The Ausgeknipst Story

By Vladislav Shenker

If you’re like me and you love shooting film (or at least you love film cameras), you probably know this feeling: you find an old film camera while strolling through your ...

23 August, 2025

Nikon Mini AF600 – Shooting with a Lite Touch

By Art Meripol

These days I use my little Fuji X100V for a ‘walking around’ camera. I like my iPhone camera just fine but usually want something a little ‘better’ than the phone. If I carry th...

18 August, 2025

Voigtländer Bessa 46 – It’s Quite Good Actually.

By Richard Becker

I bought this Voigtländer Bessa 46 in a job lot of 4 cameras, it wasn’t the one I bought the lot for and to be honest it looked the least promising of them all and I had taken n...

16 August, 2025

Box Brownie No. 2 Special – the last 120 Box Brownie.

By Tony Warren

Kodak No. 2 Brownie Special. Rollei 80S.

15 August, 2025

Kodak Retinette IB Type 037 – Cheap is Not Always Nasty

By Dave Roberts

Apart from the Pentax 17, new film cameras are not exactly hitting the shelves every month. While film continues to be popular its a fact that we have to shoot older and ageing ...

14 August, 2025

Zeiss Ikon Contessa S310 with Agfa Photo APX 100 – Developed in Bellinifoto DF2 Duo Step Diafine

By Ibraar Hussain

I recently reviewed my Zeiss Ikon Contessa S310 Here. It’s a gorgeous camera, so simple to operate and a pleasure to handle and to use. The cherry on the cake is the fact ...

12 August, 2025

MS-Optics 50mm F1.0 ISM – The Magic Lens that Refuses to Take a Bad Picture

By Jonathan Leavitt

(Depending on what you think makes a good picture) The elusive Mr. Miyazaki Sadayasu Miyazaki started a small business in Japan in 2007 that produces new lenses based on re-imag...

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11 August, 2025

Lucky SHD400 – My Experiences

By Yuval Peleg

I started shooting film in 2019. Back then, film was quite affordable (especially by today’s standards). My first B&W roll was the venerable Ilford HP5, and I was amazed at ...

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