When the Zeiss Ikon SW showed up on my doorstep a couple of weeks ago I was already well versed in “blind” M or LTM mount cameras. The “blind” term refers to a Leica body withou...
I have always been fascinated by rangefinder cameras. Their namesake’s original application around the turn of the 19th century in naval gunnery had piqued my interest at first ...
Back in the early 90s, when I became acquainted to Minox 8×11 cameras, I also started to get an interest in 16mm / 110 film photography. To this day, I still believe they belong...
I’ve been writing about film cameras for a long time now, but the release of a new film camera from a major brand like Pentax feels somehow more significant than most, if not al...
This 35mm camera belongs to my father and was purchased in 1975 for his graduation trip. During the trip, only two people carried cameras: himself and another classmate with a N...
I have previously had an XA, an XA2 and an XA3, all well used and enjoyed, and which all eventually broke in their own special ways. The XA4 is the latest in the series and I al...
At some point in the first half of the 90s I was very much into 16mm and Minox format film photography (still am); 35mm was something of a side thing, with 120 MF just a roll ev...
The Rollei 35 may be the best secret of all. Introduced in 1966, this miniature 35mm film viewfinder camera is more than the sum of its beautifully engineered parts. With a litt...
