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8 January, 2026

News: Viltrox 56mm 1.2 Pro – Now available in Nikon Z mount – quick first impressions

By Hamish Gill

8 January, 2026

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23 June, 2018

Pentax Zoom 105 Super Review – By Pedro Trevino

By Pedro Trevino

Some context: I started negotiating yard sales, thrift stores, Craigslist, and auctions for point-and-shoot cameras in March 2017, a month after Ren Hang’s death. The idea was t...

22 June, 2018

Intrepid 4×5 MKIII, Cinestill DF96 and Lomography Diana Instant Square Camera

By Hamish Gill

This week has been chaos for me - having launched my pixl-latr Kickstarter with some significant (almost scary) success on Monday, I have since been taken aback by the amount of...

21 June, 2018

5 Frames with an Exa 500 – by Dale Willetts

By Dale Willetts

This is a fairly new addition to my collection. I bought my Exa 500 just this year at the Photography show at the NEC in March. Every year at the show I always manage to add a c...

19 June, 2018

35mm Compact Camera Photographer #29 – Daniel Marinelli

By Dan Marinelli

My name is Dan Marinelli. I am from San Diego, CA... where I work as a registered nurse and if I'm not working I'm either surfing, climbing/hiking or reading a book. I also spen...

18 June, 2018

pixl-latr – launches on Kickstarter!!

By Hamish Gill

I've been working toward the launch of pixl-latr for the last 5 or 6 years of my life - I started on this project before I even started 35mmc, which seems ridiculous now I come ...

16 June, 2018

Contax T Review – My Final Word in Pocket Cameras – by Hern Tan

By Hern Tan

For far too long, I’ve been looking in the wrong place for my ideal resident for my pants pocket. I’ve gone through a Nikon 28Ti, Contax T2, and more recently a Rollei 35SE and ...

15 June, 2018

5 Frames with a Nikon F100 by Adam Laws

By Adam Laws

THUD - "That’s going to be expensive" I said to myself whist caressing the new indentation on the Leica MP’s housing; the body now so disfigured it was rejected by its own basep...

13 June, 2018

Ricoh GR Digital Classic Review – My Story – by Gabor Dobrocsi

By Gabor Dobrocsi

Following on from Hamish's thoughts shooting his recently discovered Ricoh GR Digital, I asked him if I could share my story of shooting one from new in 2007. When I got this li...

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