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6 September, 2025

Voigtlander Vito BL repair fail and GAS-fired workaround

By Simon Foale

Lee Miller could completely strip down her Rolleiflex ‘to the last nut and bolt’ and reassemble it in the dark ‘in some crummy billet’, according to her son, Antony Penrose. Thi...

2 August, 2024

5 Frames with a Voigtlander Bessa L – Broken in Just the Right Way

By David Tan

I have always been fascinated by rangefinder cameras. Their namesake’s original application around the turn of the 19th century in naval gunnery had piqued my interest at first ...

31 October, 2022

Voigtländer Vito IIa Review – Going Full Circle – By Tony Warren

By Tony Warren

In 1955, having attained the grand old age of 16 and somehow managed to pass 8 of the 9 GCE O-levels I had sat, I received a neat little blue and silver box as a reward for one ...

1 October, 2022

Voigtländer Vito CL – The Dad Cam – By Hans Gastafsson

By Hans Gustafsson

I can't recall any family vacation, outing, gettoghether when I was young that my dad didn't have his Voigtländer with him. It almost seemed an integral part of him. Not that he...

6 May, 2022

Bessa L – Love and Hate in Berlin – By Mike Brookes

By Mike Brooks

Using the Bessa L for a week in Berlin alongside a Nikon FE2 brought home all the things I don’t like about the Bessa, as well as reminding me why I’ll never get rid of it. In t...

23 March, 2022

Voigtlander Vito B, Plus Accessories – A Very Interesting Charity Shop Find – By Seb Copley

By sebcopley

This is not going to be a review, just some early thoughts on my experiences using the oldest camera I have so far owned. The Voigtlander Vito B has been reviewed many times, no...

28 January, 2022

“I am Lonely” Said Vinnie the Voigtländer Vito BL – by Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

Vinnie, the little Voigtländer Vito BL camera, shares shelf space with his friend, Spottie, the Honeywell Spotmatic. Both feel a bit neglected. After all, one can only use so m...

27 December, 2021

Comparing the Zeiss Icon Voigtländer 500 SE Electronic and the 1000 SR – By Nigel Haycock

By NigelH

So, the Zeiss Icon Voigtländer 500 SE Electronic and the Zeiss Icon Voigtländer 1000 SR are very similar brothers from an era of iconic mid-century design and innovation. (Ther...

Geoff Chaplin on Zorki 6 & Caffenol – Finding, fixing and developing – a new old experience
I bought a Fed some years ago: the shell and internal block were so badly twisted it was impossible to…
Mark S on Leica iiig – a Filmfurbish Edition / Rose Tinted Review
Jeremy does great work. I bought a beautifully refurbished Rollei 35T from him last year and it's like a brand…
Mark S on Wider Isn’t Always Better
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "A similar trend seems to be true for Cosina, the maker of…

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