23 July, 2025
Rollei Retro 400S in Paris, with a Minolta X700
I recently headed back to Paris for a long weekend, for the first time since I started shooting film again. Having taken photos there many times in the past using my digital gea...
I’d wanted to try Harman Phoenix for a while. When it was released in late 2023, there was a lot of excitement for a new colour film – not a repackaged Kodak cine-fi...
14 March, 2024
5 Frames with a Minolta X-700 and Tri-X
When I first got back into shooting film around 2013, the first film SLR I acquired after a brief flirtation with lomography cameras was the Minolta X-700. I got it and a couple...
2 September, 2022
The Whole Roll – 24 exp. HP5+, Minolta x-700, Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 – By Robert Kapp
I desided to write an "Whole Roll" Post. Why? Because my wife allowed it. She's almost on every roll of film I shoot so I of course need her permission to publish those photos. ...
Early last year I ordered a set of four cartridges of Silbersalz35 250D film. Silbersalz35 is a small German film manufacturer that uses Kodak Vision3 motion picture film stocks...
Back in March of this year, the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic reached the city I'm currently living in: Edmonton, Alberta Canada.
For a lot of people, there was a feeling th...
23 May, 2018
Minolta X-700 and 45mm f2 Lens – A love story with an uncertain ending – By Torsten Kathke
Love stories come in more dramatic varieties. But they're never more true. The 45mm f2 Minolta MD lens was attached to an SR-T 100x I bought in a now-defunct thrift store in Mun...