10 October, 2025
Minox 35 EL review – The Original Minox 35
Forty-one years ago, I borrowed this very Minox 35 EL from my father for a trip to Zaragossa. When I came back and had the film developed, I was quite blown away by the quality ...
7 October, 2025
Up-Tech – A Short Roll of Questionable Photography
The Up-Tech is a camera. Mine has a face drawn on it, and I bought it after a very mild evening at a local brewery. I’ve decided to write a post about it. A 5 US$ dollar camera...
29 August, 2025
Contax T – The OG one The Kardashians should’ve had
The Contax T, the one that started off which is now a cult like series of high end electronic Compact Cameras. I had hitherto owned and photographed with the other T series came...
Buying “Crap Cameras” A year ago I started buying plastic zoom compacts from the 80s and 90s to make a series of Youtube videos entitled “Crap Cameras”. ...
23 August, 2025
Nikon Mini AF600 – Shooting with a Lite Touch
These days I use my little Fuji X100V for a ‘walking around’ camera. I like my iPhone camera just fine but usually want something a little ‘better’ than the phone. If I carry th...
16 June, 2025
Olympus XA1 – One roll mini-review
I have enjoyed owning and using various Olympus XA cameras for a while, but I had skipped over the XA1 with its fixed focus and protruding shutter button. I wondered why would t...
This is a short review of the Olympus iS-3000 zoom lens SLR (aka iS-1 an L-1), for which I shot an expired roll of Fuji Reala 100. In hindsight I should’ve shot with a new...
25 April, 2025
Contax G1 – A thing of Beauty…
Back in 1932, following on from Leitz’s success with the Leica, Carl Zeiss introduced a competing interchangeable lens rangefinder: this was the Contax. Unlike the Leica, ...