17 October, 2025
Voigtlander VF 135 – A Very Small Review
I must confess, right from the beginning, that for the last 40 years or so, if not even longer, I have been a rangefinder user only; I stopped using SLR cameras, and quite an ex...
26 September, 2025
Super-Frankarette LRII – a German Rangefinder camera from 1959
They don’t make cameras like the Super-Frankarette any more. Franka-Kamerawerk (Franka being a German region and nothing to do with Franke & Heidecke) was based in Beyreuth,...
In the mid 1970s Olympus had a nice range of compact cameras, going from the 1/2 frame Pen to the Sophisticated 35RD. Two of these cameras are the subject of this comparison rev...
14 April, 2025
Samoca Super 28XLM Review – A Fantastic Littler Rangefinder
Say hello to my little Samoca rangefinder. “Sa-MO-ca!” Fun to say, isn’t it? Made around 1957, it was part of a wave of new cameras made by new marques that had suddenly appeare...
Fuji 35SE second review.
24 January, 2025
Kodak Chevron and Signet 35 – Birds of a Feather Shot Together
I love American Kodak cameras. I love the way they look and work. Often quirky and counterintuitive—and sometimes downright goofy—many are objects of beauty and time capsules fo...
4 December, 2024
Fujica 35-SE – A review of an interesting if tatty camera
My interest in mid 20th century efforts to automate photography led to the purchase of a Fujica 35-SE. When I bought my first dSLR, a Fuji S2 Pro, Fuji were better known for the...
6 November, 2024
Rollei XF 35 – First Impressions
I ran into this camera almost by accident. I was meandering through a vinyl record and camera store* and saw the small Rollei XF 35 hiding in a glass counter next to the registe...