30 March, 2026
Minolta Dynax 9 and 7 – A Comparison
Although these cameras were known in eastern markets as Alpha and in American markets as Maxxum, the copies I’m dealing with are the European Dynax versions – so I w...
17 March, 2026
Yashica FR-1 – The Contax RTS for the budget-conscious
Hello again, dear 35mmc friends! If my research is correct, this is the first article about the Yashica SLR FR-1 in 35mmc. This shows that once again I have something more obscu...
9 March, 2026
Minolta Panoramic A-303si SLR – Why you don’t need to spend 4 Grand on an XPan – Seeing Panoramic Part II
I wrote a post sometime back about my experience with the Fuji TX-2 aka Hasselblad XPan II. A lovely camera which I sold for peanuts, it’s now risen in price so much that ...
16 February, 2026
Minolta Dynax 9 (Maxxum 9/Alpha 9) – Three Steps to Heaven
This is a review of the Minolta Dynax 9. It was Minolta’s third (and last) ‘professional’ Autofocus system SLR. At the time, Minolta used different brandings in Asia (Alpha), Eu...
14 November, 2025
Olympus Pen F 40mm G.Zuiko f1.4 and Rollei Retro 400s – My experience with this iconic camera
This post was one of my first few on 35mmc, that’s after lurking for a few years before I plucked up enough courage and audacity to get some of my photos and writing publi...
22 October, 2025
Minolta a-9 – Raspberry Picking in September with a 24mm f2.8, Red 25 Filter and Rollei Retro 80s
It was a lovely day in early September, a month where I’m often filled with anxiety; dreading the coming Winter and the end of the brief days of fine weather of Spring and...
13 October, 2025
Fujica AZ-1 Review – A Swansong for M42?
Fujica didn’t make a lot of interchangeable mount 35mm SLRs, but they did make some interesting ones. From 1970, with the introduction of the ST701, they produced a series of mo...
23 September, 2025
Rollei SL35 – Reminiscing with a Re-Purchased SLR
When I first started out on my photography journey while growing up in NZ my first SLR was a brand new Rollei SL35 given to me as a Christmas present by my uncle in Scotland. I ...