22 May, 2026
Nikon FE – Out of the Drawer and Into the Light – A Journey of Recovery and Rejuvanation (Part Four)
This article doesn’t quite fit my ‘Out of the Drawer’ series, but then again it sort of does. Perhaps it should be called, ‘Reverse lens macro photography with a Nikkor 50...
22 May, 2026
Nikon F2 – A few from the first roll
I recently added a Nikon F2 to the stable and loaded it up with Kodak Portra 400. The following shots were taken over several days in several locations with two lenses: the pre-...
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...