This article is mainly a review of an unusual lens - Minolta AF Reflex 500 – one of the few Autofocusing Catadioptric lenses to be made. I also have a Korean-made manual focus ‘...
22 October, 2021
Samsung Slim Zoom 1150 Review: Good Results, Frustrating Experience – by Shawn Granton
I haven't given much thought to the idea of Korean film cameras. Electronics, sure. Cars, OK. But cameras? I’m guessing there was some kind of domestic camera industry in South ...
19 October, 2021
Pentax Auto 110 Review – By Bob Janes
About a year ago, I had the idea of running film through a couple of borrowed 110 cameras and possibly writing up a review. This seems to have ended up as a mini odyssey around ...
15 October, 2021
Omnar Lenses CN26-6 – 26mm f/6 – My First Lens Coming to Market!
The Omnar CN26-6 is a 26mm f/6, fixed aperture, rangefinder coupled, wide angle, snapshot lens for Leica M-mount cameras. On paper, it sounds absolutely brilliant to me, but the...
14 October, 2021
Pentax IQZoom 928 Review – My Superzoom of Choice – By Shawn Granton
When I dove back into film photography in the winter of 2020, I aimed for manual and mechanical cameras. If I was going to embrace this analog medium, I wanted the most analog e...
11 October, 2021
Nikon (Nippon Kogaku) W-Nikkor.C 2.5cm f/4 LTM – Nikon’s Tiny Gems, pt 3 – By Agata Urbaniak
In this last part my mini-series looking at wide angle Nikkor LTM lenses, I'm going to look at the W-Nikkor.C 2.5cm f/4. At first glance the W-Nikkor.C 2.5cm f/4 is a similar st...
9 October, 2021
Pajtás: A Hungarian Box Camera – by Zsuzsa Szabó
A few years ago I became interested in photography. I was mostly attracted to the old twin-lens reflex cameras, but soon I had to face the fact that my weak eyes cannot focus we...
5 October, 2021
‘Moscow Dayze’, From Russia With Film: Bringing a Self-Published Photo Book to Life – by Dmitri Tcherbadji
This book, like any other, is a neat stack of paper with a thin layer of printer ink covering 76 pages in photographs and type. Wrapped at its spine with a bright-red cardstock ...
