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27 September, 2024

Viltrox 28mm f/4.5 Pancake Lens Review and Indigogo Launch

By Hamish Gill

This is the Viltrox 28mm f/4.5 Pancake Lens, it is soon to be launched on Indigogo, but I’ve been playing with the copy I have here for the last week or so. I am, I admit...

24 September, 2024

Ilford FP4 Type 517 Cine Film Review

By Simon King

Long story short, this is a high quality film at a fantastic price. Many aspects of analogue photography can feel like a compromise, from actual decisions while photographing to...

A Transformer in both forms with a Sony F828

23 September, 2024

Sony F828 Review – More than Meets the Eye

By sklba

$995 in 2003 would probably buy a fair amount of Transformers toys, or one brand new Sony F828. It might be easy to mistake the two. Both bend and twist around in unexpected way...

19 September, 2024

Kodak 66 II – a refreshingly simple 6×6 folding camera

By Julian Tanase

Back in 2000, when I was making some feeble attempts to return to medium format, I had a few choices regarding cameras suitable for me. Obviously, one of the best was the Rollei...

18 September, 2024

Chinon Auto 3501 – Ugly, Noisy and Quite Capable

By Keith Drysdale

A Lucky Find in a Antiques Shop It is rare for us to be able to get away for a few days break, but we managed to escape to Moffat in South West Scotland and to record the occasi...

16 September, 2024

Jagglé – Introducing my Daylight Enlarger

By Wicher van Lambalgen

First, let me introduce myself; I am a mechanical design engineer and amateur photographer living in Potsdam, Germany. I’m 32 years old and have grown up around cameras, ...

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. ...

13 September, 2024

Minolta 7000 – Finding an eBay Bargain

By John Greene

Over the years I have become a little more savvy at buying and selling on eBay and I recently managed to bag, what to me, is a super bargain. Rewinding back to around 1986 our h...

Bob Janes on Finding the Best 126 Cartridge Camera – Part I
Strangely I was recently looking to experiment with a 126 - while nostalgia would have led me towards an Ilford…
Kodachromeguy on Argus C44R – The American Rangefinder
Tony, I often thought many American cameras had no industrial design. The Germans made beautiful Leica, Voigtlander, and Rolleiflex cameras.…
Gary Smith on Pentax Zoom 60 Auto – Thoughts from a 3rd roll
My bid on a Graflex 45 Crown was rejected so it's probably best to sleep on this itch anyway.

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