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7 July, 2025

Rectaflex 1000 – A Review of a (very) Early Pentaprism VF SLR

By Jim Palmer

7 July, 2025

/ Rectaflex 1000, Rectaflex SLR, SLR Camera, /

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3 March, 2023

Ensign All Distance – A Box Camera from 1927 – By Tony Warren

By Tony Warren

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...

2 March, 2023

52 x 36 – A Whole Year of Film – Part One – By Jake Yorath

By Jake Yorath

Over the course of 2023, I’ve decided I’m going to shoot a roll of film every week. 52 films sounds both like not very much, and yet also an absolutely enormous number. 52 weeks...

2 March, 2023

The Ones that Got Away

By Dave Powell

Like the hearty souls who hunt and fish, most photographers can probably tell a story or two about “the ones that got away.” Loss can happen for any number of reasons: Not ha...

1 March, 2023

Mesopotamia, Ohio (A One-Shot Story)

By Dave Powell

Though I grew up in Ohio, I’d never heard of the town of Mesopotamia. It’s on state routes 87 and 534, near Ohio’s “Mosquito Creek Wilderness” (which I also hadn’t heard of). No...

1 March, 2023

Diffraction and its Impact on Sharpness – By Tony Warren

By Tony Warren

I recently had some disappointing results while trying out a colour negative film in a Retina IIc. I was shooting the urban art (and some graffiti) that has been created here in...

28 February, 2023

Anecdotes from the Analogue World Ep. 4 – By Nandakumar

By Nandakumar N

Things took a rather grim turn in my last post when I shared this story about mental health and how crippling it can be in preventing humans from pursuing their passion or even ...

28 February, 2023

5 frames with the Flea Market Find Yashica T2 – By Nico Hilbert

By Nico Hilbert

Going through my local flea market, one camera instantly caught my attention. The Yashica T2. With no battery, I wasn't sure if it was working. However, I negotiated the price d...

27 February, 2023

Pentax KX – Mechanical Mastery, The Smoke, Sounds, and Nostalgia – By Jarrod Sams

By Jarrod Sams

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...

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Ibraar Hussain on Village walks and Life in The Rural Punjab – With a Konica Minolta Dynax Maxxum 7D
Thanks as always my friend ! I hope you do get the opportunity one day! I’ve another post on the…
Jeffery Luhn on Rectaflex 1000 – A Review of a (very) Early Pentaprism VF SLR
Jim, my heart goes out to you, having to exercise those cameras. What a chore!! Haha. Think of the actual…
Bob Janes on Minolta 9000 – The First Professional Autofocus Camera. Let it bleed.
Having found the Pentax MX focusing screen that I shaved down for my original 9000, I've added a section showing…

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