As with most photographers over a certain age, I began my photography shooting film back in the late 1980s. By the mid 2000s I was shooting…
Rangefinders (Fixed Lens)
Rangefinders (Fixed Lens)
Yashica Electro 35 GT – Finding a Rangefinder – By Francois Marlier
July 8, 2022My name is François, and I’m a 30 year old born in Belgium and currently living in Denmark. When I was around 15, my granddad gave…
Rangefinders (Fixed Lens)
Minolta Hi-Matic E – Minolta’s ‘Difficult’ Second Electro Camera – By Bob Janes
May 16, 2022The Hi-Matic E (previously also reviewed by Hamish here) is a Minolta rangefinder with a Rokkor lens. The lens is a 40 mm f/1.7 lens of…
Rangefinders (Fixed Lens)
Kodak Retina IIIC – Back into Film with a Charity Auction Find – By Stewart Waller
January 31, 2022I recently fell for analog cameras, especially vintage ones. It feels like a rabbit hole much of the time, chasing that elusive, cosmetically beautiful, functionally accurate,…
Rangefinders (Fixed Lens)
Konica Auto S3 – Small and Perfectly Formed – By Bob Janes
November 8, 2021Coinciding with their centenary in the early 70s, Konica fused two of their camera lines together. Since 1968 they had made a compact rangefinder camera called…
