Up until recently I didn't consider myself remotely interested in instant photography, it was that weird middle ground between shooting "normal" film and waiting a bit before se...
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23 April, 2018
Sansome Walk – The Silent Leisure Centre
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to explore a disused leisure centre in my home city of Worcester. As somewhere I’d been a fair few times when it was open there was a...
22 April, 2018
Voitlander Vitomatic II Review – by Nigel Haycock
This is one of my favourite little 35mm rangefinders, the Voigtländer Vitomatic II. This is such a great little camera, it is simple to use and very compact; making it perfect t...
21 April, 2018
Chinon 35 FS-II Review – Birth of a Review – By Ian
This is a camera review and a birth story. Yes, you read that right.
Chinon was a camera and movie camera lens manufacturer famous from its long line of film SLRs that uses eit...
20 April, 2018
Good night sweetheart & my little rant about toothpaste
Anil Mistry has become a fairly regular contributor to this website, I’ve also met him on a photowalk, joined his Unusual Eyes photo group of his on Facebook, helped him sell so...
I guess I should start off by saying that I’m not a fan of the 35mm focal length and with SLRs at least, I’ve never gotten on with it. It feels too wide but then aga...
18 April, 2018
5 Frames with the Minolta Maxxum 7000 – By Chris McPhee
I was recently looking for another 35mm camera and, browsing the web one lunchtime, I came across some reviews of the Minolta Maxxum 7000. A while later I found one at a local c...
Dang, this lens is heavy. It seems to pull on the body of the FM3a as if it’s trying to escape using gravity as a weapon and 900g as ammunition. But little does it know that al...
