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31 October, 2022

Voigtländer Vito IIa Review – Going Full Circle – By Tony Warren

By Tony Warren

In 1955, having attained the grand old age of 16 and somehow managed to pass 8 of the 9 GCE O-levels I had sat, I received a neat little blue and silver box as a reward for one ...

28 October, 2022

Olympus Trip 35 on Holiday – Part 1 – Keeping it Simple in New Zealand – by David Hume

By David Hume

The Olympus Trip 35 is a compact 35mm viewfinder camera released in the late 1960s that sold millions of units and had a long production run. It’s a famous benchmark camera for ...

1 October, 2022

Voigtländer Vito CL – The Dad Cam – By Hans Gastafsson

By Hans Gustafsson

I can't recall any family vacation, outing, gettoghether when I was young that my dad didn't have his Voigtländer with him. It almost seemed an integral part of him. Not that he...

6 May, 2022

Bessa L – Love and Hate in Berlin – By Mike Brookes

By Mike Brooks

Using the Bessa L for a week in Berlin alongside a Nikon FE2 brought home all the things I don’t like about the Bessa, as well as reminding me why I’ll never get rid of it. In t...

22 April, 2022

Kodak Retina 118 – More Than a Camera – By Lisa Murphy

By Lisa Murphy

As a professional archivist, understanding the context and provenance of archival material is hugely important. When I look at my camera collecting, I have applied a similar cri...

28 January, 2022

“I am Lonely” Said Vinnie the Voigtländer Vito BL – by Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

Vinnie, the little Voigtländer Vito BL camera, shares shelf space with his friend, Spottie, the Honeywell Spotmatic. Both feel a bit neglected. After all, one can only use so m...

6 January, 2022

5 Frames with a Minolta Hi-Matic G – A Joint Effort – By Peter Roberts

By Peter Roberts

I know it's a naff way to start but I didn't intend to buy this camera. Apart from a couple of favourites that I use on a regular basis I've got a waiting list of more than enou...

27 December, 2021

Comparing the Zeiss Icon Voigtländer 500 SE Electronic and the 1000 SR – By Nigel Haycock

By NigelH

So, the Zeiss Icon Voigtländer 500 SE Electronic and the Zeiss Icon Voigtländer 1000 SR are very similar brothers from an era of iconic mid-century design and innovation. (Ther...

Gary on Planar. Ektar. Fotograflar. Istanbul… In 5 Frames
"Supposedly" is the key word here. Your film seems to have made it through well enough. May I ask at…
Christopher Welch on 5 Frames with Royalty at a Food Festival
It’s the album NWA is famous for. Compton refers to a suburb of Los Angeles called Compton… their “hood”. The…
Russ Rosener on Olympus XA2 and Cosina CX-2 – In the Zone
Agreed on Old Kodak. Even worse than the 110 format we were selling and developing Kodak Disc film! Utterly horrendous,…

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