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Chinon Point & Shoot

18 September, 2024

Chinon Auto 3501 – Ugly, Noisy and Quite Capable

By Keith Drysdale

A Lucky Find in a Antiques Shop It is rare for us to be able to get away for a few days break, but we managed to escape to Moffat in South West Scotland and to record the occasi...
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28 March, 2022

Chinon Belami AF Review – Snap Happy with Fomapan Creative 200 – By Iain Paterson

By Iain Paterson

Sometimes an SLR is just a bit too serious. It seems to impose an obligation to take a 'photograph', when sometimes you simply want the ability to take a 'snap'.  Enter the Chin...
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23 February, 2021

Chinon Auto 2001 & Kodak VR35 K14 Review – Vision of the Future From the Past – By Thang Nguyen

By Thang Nguyen

This is a review of the Chinon Auto 2001 & Kodak VR35 K14 - the Kodak VR35 K14 is a rebranded and slightly tweaked Chinon 2001. It was apparent that the 80’s was the decade...
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23 May, 2019

Chinon Bellami Mini Review – By Dale Willetts

By Dale Willetts

Like many camera hoarders who visit the annual Photography show at the NEC in Birmingham in the UK each year, I find myself irresistibly drawn to the Disabled Photographers Soci...
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21 April, 2018

Chinon 35 FS-II Review – Birth of a Review – By Ian

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...
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24 May, 2015

Chinon Auto 3001 Multifocus review – by Sigurður J. Haraldsson

By Sigurður Haraldsson

Well this is my Chinon Auto 3001. A fellow film camera enthusiast was selling a part of his film camera collection few months ago on facebook and this camera was there. I liked ...
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  1. Ryan Gardiner Johnson on Riding and shooting the Warriors Race 2002

    Thanks for the kind words, definitely 'in the saddle' for some of the shots!

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    Scanned the negs in vue scan -

  3. Ryan Gardiner Johnson on Riding and shooting the Warriors Race 2002

    The photographer in the last shot was doing team portraits on his 4x5, he had us (the strangers) lined up…

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