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...
10 October, 2025
Leica iiig – a Filmfurbish Edition / Rose Tinted Review
The Leica iiig is a camera that I have previously been uncertain I would like – I saw it as almost a worst of two worlds option from its era. It’s a camera from a period w...
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,...
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...
Over the past few years, I’ve become enamored with late 60s/early 70s rangefinder cameras. Not the Leicas, mind you — budget won’t allow — but I have found great joy in shootin...
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...
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, ...