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23 June, 2025

Thypoch Simera 21mm f/1.4 ASPH review

By vincentbihler

23 June, 2025

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10 March, 2016

35mm Compact Photographer #17 – Sean Fisher

By Sean Fisher

First, a bit of background? As much or as little as you are comfortable sharing… Name, Where you are from, what you do, What else in life do you enjoy? that sort of thing? Hey, ...

6 March, 2016

35mm Compact Photographer #18 – Oswaldo Guadarrama

By Oswaldo guadarrama

First, a bit of background? As much or as little as you are comfortable sharing… Name, Where you are from, what you do, What else in life do you enjoy? that sort of thing? My na...

5 March, 2016

MS-Optics converted Nikon L35 35mm f/2.8 Sonnar – 35mm Lens conversion – Part 2

By Hamish Gill

In the last part of this story I was deliberating over the choice of converting the Yashica T4's Tessar vs the Nikon L35's Sonnar to M-mount. Whilst I was dead set on the latter...

5 March, 2016

Ricoh FF-8WR – one roll review

By Hamish Gill

The Ricoh FF-8WR is one of a bunch of compact cameras that I didn’t recently get shot of. This might sound like an odd distinction to make, but recently I parted company w...

4 March, 2016

Yeg with the Travelling Yashica – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

By weedos

Way back in the late summer of 2015 a package arrived at my door. All the way from Australia it had come (that’s a long way from Sherwood Park, Alberta). I was so pleased ...

1 March, 2016

Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim – Modifying & Shooting – by Charles Higham

By Charles Higham

The Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim 35mm film camera (sometimes shortened to VUWS or UWS) was made in China and sold for not much money as a truly basic point and shoot with an unus...

27 February, 2016

35mm Compact Photographer #16 – Patrik Rośen

By Patrik Rosén

Today I still shoot with my M6, and I'm also into panorama photography with a Fuji G617 (6x17). In a few weeks I'll receive the final step for me when it comes to 35mm cameras, ...

24 February, 2016

Nightcap Pro – An iPhone camera app review

By Hamish Gill

You're probably wondering what on earth a blog post about a camera app is doing on a website about 35mm compact cameras? Well it's quite simple, a lot of the photos I take of th...

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Ibraar Hussain on Fuji X Half – A Few thoughts about a camera I’ve not even touched
I agree completely. If it were at say the £200 mark it would be quite curious to play with. But…
Ibraar Hussain on Fuji X Half – A Few thoughts about a camera I’ve not even touched
well said with good insight
Thorsten Wulff on Fujifilm X half – A few frames taken with a Camera From a World I Don’t Understand
so turned out Fuji will send me an X-Half anyway... I'll take it to Cannes next week and get back…

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