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8 August, 2025

Konica C35 – Bringing a 60s rangefinder back to life with a bit of tape

By Mike Riess

8 August, 2025

/ Camera Repair, Konica C35, Konica Rangefinder, rangefinder camera, /

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11 March, 2024

Richomatic 35 – Two Contrasting Examples of a 1960s Quality Point & Shoot Camera.

By Tony Warren

A recent auction job lot turned up a working Richomatic 35, a camera I vaguely remember for its very modern design for its day but not one I had taken much interest in. A great ...

11 March, 2024

7Artisans 9mm f/5.6 Review

By Hamish Gill

I have here the widest lens I have ever used. Possibly the widest lens I have ever seen in the flesh. Certainly the widest rectilinear lens. The lens I am talking about is the 7...

10 March, 2024

5 Frames with the Mamiya 6 IV-S Folding 6×6 Camera

By Bob Prendergast

I was recently on a photo walk with some fellow film buffs. One of the guys pulled out a beautiful Leica M3 from his bag: “It was my grandfather’s camera,” he said, beaming. Ano...

9 March, 2024

5 Frames with a Voigtlander Vito II

By David James

In my late teens, around 1970, a work colleague invited me round to his place to show me how to print from 35mm film using an enlarger. This moment was a total epiphany for me, ...

8 March, 2024

An eBay Bargain and Impulse Bought Tale of Woe

By Gary Smith

First of all, while I shot film exclusively from 1970 through 1975 and did my own developing and printing that was a long time ago. These days I mostly shoot digital. I’m by no ...

8 March, 2024

Minolta 16 MG sub-miniature camera.

By Tony Warren

I bought this Minolta 16 camera when I prematurely thought my efforts with 110 to use the film slitter I had made had hit the buffers. It has turned out to be something of a cur...

7 March, 2024

5 Frames with Agfa APX 400 in the Midwinter

By Julian Tanase

I spent a few days in a quiet rural area, before actually reopening the business for 2024. You know, that time space between the end of year and beginning of the new daily strif...

7 March, 2024

5 Frames of expired CineStill 800T with a Leica M4 and 7Artisans 35mm f/2.0

By AndreArma

The film photographer’s life is full of silly mistakes. Some big, some small, and some… unforgivable. For example, tidying up my fridge, I realized that I let two ro...

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