23 September, 2024
Sony F828 Review – More than Meets the Eye
$995 in 2003 would probably buy a fair amount of Transformers toys, or one brand new Sony F828. It might be easy to mistake the two. Both bend and twist around in unexpected way...
9 September, 2024
Pentax K100D – The only digital camera that I have any affection for
I’ve never really been enthusiastic about digital cameras, seeing them as an necessary inconvenience, I just use them when I need colour photos these days. I do get restle...
In part 1, I talked about the Sony R1, this part is about a camera that represents another key moment in Sony’s APS-C camera history, the Sony a700. In July 2005 Sony anno...
This is the first of three reviews I’m preparing, looking at Sony’s APS-C camera range spanning 6 years and showing the three separate approaches they took in that time. Two yea...
24 June, 2024
Olympus E-1 Review – Down the Kodak CCD Rabbit Hole
To go down the Rabbit Hole: To enter into a situation or begin a process or journey that is particularly strange, problematic, difficult, complex, or chaotic, especially one tha...
29 April, 2024
Leica C (Typ 112) – A Capable Compact (by Panasonic)
I have a thing for small cameras. Well, really, I have a thing for cameras in general – but in particular, I’m sort of always on the lookout for a truly excellent c...
12 April, 2024
Olympus C2000Z – A new life for an early digital compact
In Eric’s recent article, “Olympus Camedia C2020Z – Vintage Digital/Antique Shop ‘Jankuary’ Find – 2MP from 1999″, about a camera that he had found in an antiq...
The year was 2005 and Konica Minolta had released their X Series stylish Digital compact. I was using a Dynax 5D, 7D and I also had a KM A200 which was fantastic (and according ...