SLR Camera Archives

14 November, 2025

Olympus Pen F 40mm G.Zuiko f1.4 and Rollei Retro 400s – My experience with this iconic camera

By Ibraar Hussain

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

By Ibraar Hussain

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?

By Bob Janes

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

By Alastair Bell

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 ...

8 September, 2025

Contax 167MT – an outstanding, but overlooked tool

By Peter Schu

The design of the Contax 167MT is different from any other analog camera, other Contax cameras included. I purchased my Contax 167MT in 1992 and I have been using it since then....

1 September, 2025

Fuji STX-2 and the X-mount bayonet cul-de-sac

By Bob Janes

Fuji Photo Film started up in the 1930s producing film and photographic material. They grew to be Japan’s largest film producer. Along the way, they made a series of cameras, ai...

25 August, 2025

Minolta XG9 review

By Bob Janes

There was a point in the late 70s when Minolta did something mildly uncharacteristic. They had always produced interesting cameras with cutting-edge features, but occasionally t...

5 August, 2025

Voigtlander Bessamatic – A retrospective look at a marketplace find.

By Steve Kotajarvi

One of my daily routines includes a search in the local classifieds for cameras. Initially fueled by my obsession with finding “that perfect camera” and later to fin...

David Hume on Editing, manipulating, lying, fake – towards an agreement of the meaning of words
Peter, good on you for wishing to bring a bit of order to a topic that can easily spiral into…
Bill Brown on The Rise And Fall of Pizzeria Liceo – One Shot Story
A Mexican restaurant that my wife and I had enjoyed for thirty years suffered the same fate. We had become…
Bill Brown on Editing, manipulating, lying, fake – towards an agreement of the meaning of words
I was not going to comment because I don't think this type of post furthers the enjoyment of image making.…

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