8 September, 2018
Canon 5D Classic Review – By Ray Goodwin
In this world of hundreds of auto focus points, phase detection, high ISO performance, burst rate nonsense; is less really more? Is it possible that the Canon 5D Classic, a deca...
“Hi, they’ve got a Canon EOS 300 with a 28-105 lens and they want £5 for it. Do you want it?”
Yet another phone call from my wife from the local charity shop (or Charlie shop a...
4 August, 2018
Zenit E Review – My Father’s old camera – Johann Wahlmüller
This post is about the unlikely camera that accidentally got me into film photography – my dad’s old Zenit E.
My father bought his Zenit E in the early 70s and mostly used it o...
23 May, 2018
Minolta X-700 and 45mm f2 Lens – A love story with an uncertain ending – By Torsten Kathke
Love stories come in more dramatic varieties. But they're never more true. The 45mm f2 Minolta MD lens was attached to an SR-T 100x I bought in a now-defunct thrift store in Mun...
Hamish’s recent foray into the world of SLRs with his project involving a Nikon F75 struck a chord with me. While I am big on compact cameras, I have quite a few of them that I’...
28 March, 2018
Leicaflex Standard Review – by Jason S. Ganz
The word Leica and film often brings up precision, manual operation, best-in-the-world optics, and ideations that shooting a Leica automatically makes one a professional – if no...
10 March, 2018
Nikon FM3a Review – My desert Island camera – by Anil Mistry
Last year I wrote a short piece for 35mmc as part of the “5 frames with” series. The camera I used was my Nikon Fm3a with the Nikkor 50mm f1.2 AIS lens- a combination that I jus...
4 March, 2018
Nikon F75 Project – Part 6 – preferences & ideologies
Having “upgraded” from my Nikon F75 to a Nikon F80, this little project has definitely come to an end. In fact, with the F75 being deposited on a particular shelf at work that u...