SLRs

SLR Camera Reviews – SLR (Single Lens Reflex) film cameras are arguably the most versatile. They also range from very simple purely mechanical manual cameras, all the way through to highly complex and technologically advanced cameras with lots of automatic features many of which are discussed in the reviews below.

As with most the types of cameras listed on this website you can find a little more about the pros and cons of the different types of SLR film cameras here.

As with all the content on this website, if you find something of interest, you can find more similar products by clicking on the tags you will find at the bottom of the reviews.

29 June, 2026

Zeiss Ikon Icarex – Roll over Nikon

By Ibraar Hussain

Voigtländer first came into being in Vienna, Archduchy of Austria in 1756 (270 years ago) before moving permanently to Brunswick in what was then the Duchy of the same name (Bra...

22 June, 2026

Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Super (1959) and the Pro-Tessar lenses – A work of Art

By Ibraar Hussain

I’ve been a long time user of Japanese Contax cameras, hence I also have a fondness for related West German cameras with the Zeiss Ikon name. I wrote a review of the pretty (if ...

2 June, 2026

Voigtländer Bessamatic Review

By Tony Warren

Review of Voigtländer Bessamatic

22 May, 2026

Nikon FE – Out of the Drawer and Into the Light – A Journey of Recovery and Rejuvanation (Part Four)

By Niall Keohane

This article doesn’t quite fit my ‘Out of the Drawer’ series, but then again it sort of does. Perhaps it should be called, ‘Reverse lens macro photography with a Nikkor 50...

22 May, 2026

Nikon F2 – A few from the first roll

By Gary Smith

I recently added a Nikon F2 to the stable and loaded it up with Kodak Portra 400. The following shots were taken over several days in several locations with two lenses: the pre-...

30 March, 2026

Minolta Dynax 9 and 7 – A Comparison

By Bob Janes

Although these cameras were known in eastern markets as Alpha and in American markets as Maxxum, the copies I’m dealing with are the European Dynax versions – so I w...

17 March, 2026

Yashica FR-1 – The Contax RTS for the budget-conscious

By Walter Reumkens

Hello again, dear 35mmc friends! If my research is correct, this is the first article about the Yashica SLR FR-1 in 35mmc. This shows that once again I have something more obscu...

9 March, 2026

Minolta Panoramic A-303si SLR – Why you don’t need to spend 4 Grand on an XPan – Seeing Panoramic Part II

By Ibraar Hussain

I wrote a post sometime back about my experience with the Fuji TX-2 aka Hasselblad XPan II. A lovely camera which I sold for peanuts, it’s now risen in price so much that ...

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