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7 July, 2025

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

By Jim Palmer

7 July, 2025

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25 January, 2024

Yashica Mat 124G – First Roll Experiences

By Antonio Miše

The Yashica Mat 124G, an embodiment of mid-20th-century camera engineering. It greeted me with its robust, yet elegant, presence. The utilitarian design, devoid of modern frills...

24 January, 2024

New Website Update (the adverts are back…)

By Hamish Gill

I can very much seeing the light at the end of the website update tunnel now. Almost everything has been fixed, with only a final few tweaks now underway. You can see a list of ...

24 January, 2024

Fujica Half – the Revival of a Half Frame Camera

By Julian Tanase

At some point in the first half of the 90s I was very much into 16mm and Minox format film photography (still am); 35mm was something of a side thing, with 120 MF just a roll ev...

24 January, 2024

Shooting “Super-Macros” with a Contaflex Super B SLR (Part 1)

By Dave Powell

Over the years, many people have asked online how to do macro photography with vintage Zeiss Ikon Contaflex SLRs. Here’s a 2005 thread on the subject. Common wisdom says that Co...

23 January, 2024

5 Frames Testing a Long Since Used Olympus 35 ECR

By Roger

This camera including its now very battered soft case is one I bought in the early 1970s as a student to complement a much heavier Pentax SLR. It had a lot of use in the 1970s a...

23 January, 2024

Bronica ETRSi and 135W – First Whole Roll Experiences

By Roger

I have recently been experimenting with film again and, using a normal 35mm camera, and decided that I wanted to try something with panoramic format. There is an obvious choice,...

22 January, 2024

Klito no. 2 hand camera – That time when I revived a camera from 1906.

By Tony Warren

I wrote an article in 2001 about an almost 100 year old camera. Revisiting it now just over 20 years later I am staggered at the progress that has been made with digital equipme...

21 January, 2024

5 Frames with a Minolta XD7 and Kodak Vision 3 250D

By Nico Ghirlando

Does the camera I am using at the time affect the images I make? Perhaps. I’m not so sure. It certainly it affects the enjoyment of the process. But is the process important or ...

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