rangefinder camera Archives

9 December, 2025

Leica M3 – Becoming an Owner in 2025: Romance, Reality, and a Very Shiny Viewfinder

By Tony Page

In 2025, it feels like everyone has an opinion on film photography. For some, it is nostalgia, for others it is a TikTok trend, for a few it is a fully fledged cult. Somewhere b...

20 November, 2025

5 Frames with a Braun Super Paxette using Dragon No.1 film

By Alastair Bell

I love old film cameras. It’s led me to build a small collection including a Kodak Retina IIIc (which I’m not a massive fan of), Voigtlander Vitomatic IIa (which I l...

10 November, 2025

Agima – AGI’s follow-up to the Agimatic

By Bob Janes

Previously on Cameras of Croydon… This is my third review of a camera model from Aeronautical General Instruments of Croydon, South London, under their AGILUX brand. The A...

17 October, 2025

Voigtlander VF 135 – A Very Small Review

By Sorin Lazarescu

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

By Hamish Gill

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

By Bob Janes

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,...

19 September, 2025

Kodak 35RF coupled rangefinder from 1949.

By Tony Warren

Kodak 35RF.

29 August, 2025

Contax T – The OG one The Kardashians should’ve had

By Ibraar Hussain

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...

Gary Smith on 5 First Frames and Developing of Fuji Velvia 100
I suspect it's been 50 years since I've shot any slides. They do seem to render more vibrant color than…
Simon Foale on Denizen of the Lake – My Favourite Photograph of 2025
Brilliant picture Sroyon! The extended tongue (and the little ripple beneath it) really makes it, but you have many great…
Sroyon on Denizen of the Lake – My Favourite Photograph of 2025
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