Medium Format TLR Archives

20 November, 2023

Great Wall DF4 / Export – The beauty of simplicity.

By sklba

While the wizardry of modern cameras has reduced a once mighty concept to little more than a phone option variance, there’s something to be said about stepping away from all tha...

10 October, 2023

Mamiya C220 – The TLR Itch

By Paul Quellin

More than a little while ago as a young photographer, I aspired to turn professional, even starting a sort of apprenticeship with a wedding photographer. I had graduated onto a ...

13 January, 2023

Medium Format On A Budget – A Quick Comparison of Three, Low Priced, 120 format, 6cm x 6cm TLR Cameras – By James Hanes

By James Hanes

I am a Medium Format guy who can't afford a Hasselblad or a Rolleiflex, so I have several working TLRs which I use regularly. My favorites are a Yashica LM, similar to the Mat12...

9 December, 2022

Mamiya C330F, and How I Turned it into a Swan – By Rene Villaroman

By RENATO VILLAROMAN

Late last year I was confined to my apartment for a week and that opened an opportunity for me to write about a 6 x 6 format camera that I have been meaning to buy for years. Th...

21 February, 2022

Zeiss Ikoflex III (1939) – Atoning For GAS By Doing A History Project – By Stefan Wilde

By Stefan Wilde

When I first bought and tried a Rolleiflex I fell in love with TLRs. They are by no means perfect, but very quirky and eye-catching. I love that. Yes I am that kind of person. I...

24 May, 2021

Minolta Autocord TLR: First Impressions – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

I shot a roll with a twin-lens reflex camera (TLR) for the first time this month. But long before I used a TLR in real life, I loved the idea of it – so much so that I thought t...

5 March, 2021

Twin Lens Reflex Cameras – Making My Case for the Quirky Design – By Alex Mitte

By Edding

There are two types of film cameras for me that hold a really special experience, Rangefinders, and Twin-Lens Reflex’. I find that especially the latter offers me a very unique ...

15 December, 2020

Voigtlander Superb – My New Favorite TLR – By Dan Cuny

By Dan Cuny

Being in photography for more than 50 years, I've had the pleasure of using many cameras. For years, whenever I wanted to shoot with a twin-lens reflex camera, my camera of choi...

David Pauley on Shooting Pano on a Hasselblad
Hi Scott, I would've loved this post even if the text were in Icelandic and translation apps weren't an option.…
Shubroto Bhattacharjee on Ulanzi WLF – A Waist‑Level Experiment With a Broken Nikon D80
Well done, Max! Is the image reversed laterally (left for right) when using the Ulanzi WLF, as in a TLR?…
Michael Jardine on NEWS: Reveni Labs Spot Meter MK3 Available Now
I spotted this, and I must say my credit-card finger developed a little itch... I have the mark 1 and…

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