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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...

9 August, 2020

A Day Out with the Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 AIS and Nikon D850 DSLR – by Anil Mistry

By Anil Mistry

This lockdown has resulted in me spending a lot of time wandering around with a camera to stay busy and sane. I'm sure many of you can relate. When not tearing my hair out with...

8 August, 2020

Shooting Three Kinds of Redscale Film – by Tobias Eriksson

By Flashknappen

I recently found myself exposing three different redscale films almost in parallel. An Olympus Pen D2 was passing through my hands to be sold in my Etsy shop. I couldn't pass th...

8 August, 2020

A Couple of Bodged Fixes for a Pentax PC35AF – By Seb Copley

By sebcopley

After returning to analogue photography a few years ago with a Minolta Hi-Matic 7 rangefinder, I began looking for a second film camera. I was looking for something totally diff...

7 August, 2020

5 Frames with my Yashica Electro 35 GT – The Trials and Tribulations – by Sacha Cloutier

By Sacha Cloutier

When I first asked Hamish if I could submit an article, I had just purchased a box of used cameras on Facebook Marketplace. I knew that I wanted to review some of the cameras I ...

Gary Smith on Monster Adapter LA-FZ1 – Review Overview & Introduction
Shot the F2 with the 105/2.5 today. It's going to take me a while to be able to find the…
Jonathan Leavitt on Leica 50mm Lenses – The “Goldilocks Leica Lens Challenge” – Introduction
I can totally see that it makes sense for portraits. A lot of people really don’t want to see every…
Scott Ferguson on Leica 50mm Lenses – The “Goldilocks Leica Lens Challenge” – Introduction
Yes! I remember that post and your "Another good joke" shot was a favorite. I rarely use my 90mm rigid…

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