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4 November, 2025

Samsung Digimax L85 (and How It Replaced a Sigma DP2s)

By Ed Gillam

4 November, 2025

/ Compact Digital, Samsung Digimax L85, Samsung Digital, /

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Up-Tech – A Short Roll of Questionable Photography

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5 frames in France with a Contax RX

By Alastair Bell

I have a problem. I love cameras. Especially older film cameras. It’s that tactile feeling of holding it and finding all the controls under my fingertips. A couple of year...

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HP PhotoSmart Mobile Camera review – an SD card camera for Windows PDAs

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In the age of smartphones, the idea of not having a camera in your pocket at all times may seem foreign. But even as far as twenty years ago, there were developments to try and ...

Front view of a Minolta Talkman camera surrounded by 35mm film cassettes

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5 Frames with a Trichroming Minolta AF-S Talkman

By Benjamin Chan

If you read my earlier piece about the Minolta AF-S V&D, also known as “The Talker”, then you’ll know it checks a lot of boxes for what I want from a compact point-and...

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Bob Janes on Olympus XA2 and Cosina CX-2 – In the Zone
Thank you. The anti-half-frame thing is difficult to justify when you are also pushing 110 film - still, big organizations…
Bob Janes on Olympus XA2 and Cosina CX-2 – In the Zone
Well now you're asking... Looking back through negatives, the XA2 shots were captured on Fomapan 100 (I did some bulk…
Bob Janes on Olympus XA2 and Cosina CX-2 – In the Zone
You are very kind. Nostalgia is a wonderful thing - and there were probably enough OM1 and OM2 cameras produced…

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