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Minolta X-700 with the box for a roll of Rollei Retro 400S

23 July, 2025

Rollei Retro 400S in Paris, with a Minolta X700

By James Billings

23 July, 2025

/ Minolta X-700, Rollei Retro 400, travel photography, /

Latest Posts

1 November, 2014

Leica 50mm f/2 Summar Review – A lens with a good deal of character.

By Hamish Gill

I very nearly didn’t keep my Leica Summar, in fact I’d almost decided to sell it before I’d even shot with it. First off, it’s an ugly little thing. Mine...

30 October, 2014

Hartlebury Train Carriages – Cinestill 800T and 50mm Summicron

By Hamish Gill

These train carriages are parked up on a disused bit of railway line just inside the Hartlebury Trading estate near Kidderminster. Quite beautiful in their decay I think, I deci...

26 October, 2014

Flash switch hack for the Olympus AF-10 super

By Hamish Gill

Edit: Since writing this post, I have also written a review of this brilliantly crap camera – Olympus AF-10 Super or: Pushing the functional limits of a crap point & s...

27 September, 2014

Minolta TC-1 Review – An Eccentric Beauty

By Hamish Gill

The Minolta TC-1 always struck me as an odd looking little camera with a few feature and design choices that just didn’t sit well with me. But over that last 6 months R...

9 August, 2014

The Film Camera – a Tool or Something More

By Hamish Gill

In its most simple form there are three elements to a film camera; the lens the camera and the film. Of course in the process of taking a photo, there is also the light entering...

8 August, 2014

The Traveling Yashica: Moni Smith, Portland, Oregon U.S.A.

By Moni Smith

One morning at the end of September of last year my friend Inge told me about the Traveling Yashica project. She was going to join and thought I might be interested too. I did a...

30 July, 2014

Leica M4-P Review – Function over Mystique

By Hamish Gill

I recently bought a Leica M4-P, very recently in fact. It’s the funny thing with these Leica’s, they seem to inspire me to write about them fairly quickly, especiall...

28 July, 2014

The Traveling Yashica: Antonella Guarracino, Dublin

By Antonella Guarracino

If you, like me, have every now and then contemplated shooting street photography but have been held back by a sense of uneasiness at the thought of driving attention to yoursel...

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