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Minolta MC Rokkor 100-200 mm attached to Minolta SR-T 303

4 January, 2026

Minolta MC Zoom-Rokkor 100-200mm – the Best Worst Minolta Lens

By Alexander K

When I bought my first Minolta camera, it came both with a standard MD 50 mm 1.7 and a MC Rokkor 100-200mm zoom lens as a bonus. The camera was an SR-T 303 and quickly became my...

25 August, 2025

Fish-eye-Takumar 17mm – Takumars in a Digital Age #1

By David Mackay

Last Christmas my father-in-law gifted an old Spotmatic. I was taken aback as it had belonged to his father and so I knew how much it meant to him to pass it along. While the ca...

10 August, 2025

Nikkor 43-86mm – The world’s WORST lens!

By Eric Rose

I’m a heretic. It’s true. I’m not a big fan of sharp lenses with tons of contrast. I’ve also got a thing against Subaru’s. No real reason, just don’t like them...

30 July, 2025

Voigtlander 28mm f2.8 Aspherical SL II-S Color-Skopar – Golden egg cups, surrealism and a new lens for an old film camera

By Simon Bohrsmann

This is a story about how I ended up knee deep in sea water on the coast of Sydney, Australia, trying to focus on a golden egg cup. It is a story about an experience with a new ...

18 January, 2025

Mir-20 20mm 3.5 on a Pentax K1-II – A Field Test of the

By Andrea Monti

Photographing with a 20mm lens is quite demanding on the eye, as the composition has to take into account many more objects than with a normal prime or telephoto lens. As a resu...

18 October, 2024

Nikkor-H Auto 2.8cm f/3.5 – Wakimoto’s Triumph and Nikon’s Hidden Legacy

By Andrew Bibee

In the late 1950s, one of Nikon’s lead designers at the time, Zenji Wakimoto, was handed down an arduous task that would prove to be one of his greatest triumphs: “Make a lens t...

16 September, 2024

Nikon 500mm Mirror Lens – The short fat cheap deal!

By Jeffery Luhn

I bought a used 500mm mirror lens in 1975 when I was shooting for United Press International. It was the longest focal length in the smallest form factor available at the time. ...

1 March, 2024

Soligor 35mm f/3.5 – A Cheap and Cheerful Softie

By Mark Ellerby

I bought this from Real Camera because I wanted a wider-than-50mm lens for my Praktica SLR, not having any idea who Soligor are/were (and still not much the wiser). It was cheap...

Niall Keohane on 5 Frames with Ilford FP4 Type 517 Cine Film
Great article and photos, thank you. I'm a big fan of this film too, and develop it in Bellini Hydrofen,
Ibraar Hussain on Interview with Maurício and Hugo from Olympus Passion Magazine. For lovers of all things Olympus & OM Digital
Thanks Walter and thank you for your understanding. And thanks for sharing your experience. It is very sad the see…
Walter Reumkens on Interview with Maurício and Hugo from Olympus Passion Magazine. For lovers of all things Olympus & OM Digital
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