The dream is that someone will just give you a Leica. The dream is alive. Well, at least it is not completely dead. I was given a Leica C2 Zoom.
I spent a couple of weeks taking snaps with a little Canon Sprint. It wasn’t a camera I chose for its merits, nor did I know what the roll of film contained within it was....
One December evening I happened to be browsing and, wandering over to 35mmc, noticed that Hamish was very generously giving away a stack of compacts. The only catch was that a r...
I’ve been on a bit of a roll lately – some of you will have an intimate knowledge of this feeling. Every single charity shop or car boot sale I go to has been yielding vin...
The Leica CL, along with its contemporary cousin the Leica M5, comes from a time in Leica's history that seems to have been a little rocky to say the least. Yet whilst Leica suf...
Is the Olympus OM4ti camera relevant for 35mmc? I think so. The word “compact” is relative and open to interpretation. There are compact cars and compact vans for example; a ‘co...
With all these cameras, it’s always about comfort to use, and the simplicity I need in a lot of things in life.
I have to feel that the camera isn’t something bothering to carry...
The Contax TVS is a fancy compact zoom camera from the mid nineties. Its body is made out of Titanium, it has a really nice Zeiss Vario-Sonar zoom lens and a good range of sensi...