According to Wikipedia Franka Kamerawerk produced cameras between 1909 and 1967 in Bayreuth, Germany. At its height the factory produced about 650,000 units in 1958. So I was su...
I haven’t used a 35mm film camera for about 15 years and what a mistake that was. Through my teens and then twenties it was my Nikon FM2 with a 50mm 1.4 that helped me become th...
Fomapan is one of those films that I tried early on when I first started shooting film - a gateway option which allowed me to explore the process of a mechanical camera without ...
Similar to the Olympus XA2, I found the Canon Sure Shot for a measly $10 at an estate sale close to my house. Besides some corroded battery terminals that were easily cleaned ou...
The Olympus OM-1 was always my dream camera since I got into photography in seventh grade. It took several more years of borrowing classmates’ cameras and an interlude with a Pe...
I am honored to be a guest blogger on 35mmc - a blog/webpage that I have been reading for quite some time. When I got the question if I could make a post, I thought of what I sh...
I’ve been a bit of and old camera junkie for a few years now and I love the challenge of trying out a variety of cameras of all different formats from a 1920 Kodak folding 2A Au...
I have vivid memory using my dad's Mamiya ZE Quartz which I very much wanted to learn how to use, but never did. Years later, as I started my first job, I decided to put conscio...