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13 August, 2020

Hanimex VEF Mini Camera Mini Review – by Tobias Eriksson

By Flashknappen

My very first own camera was one of those flat fold-out Kodak 110-format Instamatics. I remember making paper copies from 110 negatives with my father's old enlarger once I'd st...

13 August, 2020

Six of my Best Freebie Cameras – Part1: The SLRs – By Rock

By Rock

This is about six cameras that I now own; great cameras I might add. Why, because they are classics? Are they the best of their class? Great performers? Valuable? To be honest, ...

12 August, 2020

Artefacts of a Laboratory – Adapting an enlarging lens to a Sony DSLR – By Jordi Fradera

By Jordi Fradera

This story began when a few days ago I looked for the entry “Photography” in the well-known DUDEN thematic dictionary (Bildwörterbush of Duden - Leipzig 1940 - also published in...

12 August, 2020

5 Frames with Konica Auto S2 and Ilford FP4+ – By Kevin Ortner

By Kevin Ortner

Some people drive home from work, park there car somewhere on the street, go inside, do whatever they do, sleep, wake up, eat, and get in their car knowing it will turn on and g...

11 August, 2020

Sprocket Rocket 2.0 Review – A Day at the Fair – By Alex Vye

By Alex Vye

The Sprocket Rocket is a plastic, panoramic 35mm camera that offers a 1:3 aspect ratio. The lens is a 30mm with f/10.8 and f/16 settings, and a fixed mechanical shutter with a s...

11 August, 2020

Disposable Camera Holiday Snaps – Moments of Truth (Part One) – By Brian Nicholls

By MrSnappy

We’ve all got George Eastman and his Brownie cameras to thank for creating the tool for vernacular photography. That simple principle of combining a single element, fixed focus ...

10 August, 2020

Minolta X300 – Turning Back Time with my 35 Year Old SLR – By Richard Wilford

By Richard Wilford

I was given a Minolta X300 for my 21st birthday. It wasn’t my first camera but it was my first SLR, and I’m still using it 35 years later. For 23 years it was virtually all I us...

10 August, 2020

Contax RTS Review – Second Time Lucky

By Hamish Gill

The Contax RTS is a camera I’ve now had two experiences with. In fact, most of the content of this review was written around the time of first contact with one. That earlier ver...

Lawrence Myers on HP PhotoSmart Mobile Camera review – an SD card camera for Windows PDAs
The close up shor of the flowers is kind of pleasing, like a picture that an affordable-but-family-friendly chain hotel would…
Ibraar Hussain on Eastman Kodak 5222 Double-X with a Contax RTS II
Thanks again as always Kary!
Ibraar Hussain on To CineMot Coimbra, with love
Enjoyed the write up and the lovely lovely photography I have used Double X quite a bit, but I haven't…

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