28 May, 2026
‘Bivouac’ is French for ‘Mistake’ – One Shot Story
While by its dictionary definition ‘bivouac’ means any makeshift camp, among mountaineers the word is usually invoked for an unplanned night out. Hence the qu...
18 February, 2020
Ricoh GRIII and GR1s Experience Comparison by a Film Agnostic – By Steven Bleistein
I am sure to get some grief about this piece given that my last article on the analog Ricoh GR1s ended with my resolution that I was not interested in buying a digital GR. Well,...
11 December, 2016
Ricoh GR1 – will it dethrone my Olympus XA2? – by Frank Lehnen
Since this morning, I'm the proud owner of a Ricoh GR1. I've really longed to try this camera out, so I thought I would try to give a day by day report or review of my early exp...
22 November, 2014
WIN my Ricoh GR1s
To celebrate the launch of the redesigned 35mmc website I have decided to give away one of the cameras that started it all – my trusty Ricoh GR1s. It might not be in perfe...
16 February, 2014
Ricoh GR1v Review – My Final thoughts
If you have read the previous post about the Ricoh GR1 series of cameras, you might be under the impression that I had fallen out with the Ricoh GR1v? Well, this isn’t the...
9 February, 2014
Ricoh GR1 – A tale of repair and repeated woe
In my previous Ricoh GR1 post, I was at a point in my relationship with it where we had just recently gone our separate ways. Nearly a year on, and a lot has happened since!
20 June, 2013
A quick fix to a Ricoh GR1s viewfinder surround.
I picked up a Ricoh GR1s for a very reasonable price the other day. I should first say I am very happy to own another Ricoh GR1, you can read my experience of my first one here....
5 May, 2013
Ricoh GR1 Review – The Path to Enlightenment
The Ricoh GR1 was a real eye opener for me! My return to compact cameras started at the end of 2012 with a Yashica T5 (more on that another time – part 1), I had feared so...