“I would like to buy you a new film scanner for your birthday,” my wife says concernedly from the couch. I am crouched over my 15-year-old Epson flatbed, a $10 purchase from Goo...
15 August, 2020
Kodak Panoram No.1 – Photographing Yosemite with my 120 year old Panoramic Camera – By Dan Cuny
My love for cameras and photography goes back to when I was a young boy living in Chicago. I believe the majority of the people I know with this kind of passion always starts at...
14 August, 2020
Fed 2 Russian Rangefinder Mini-Review – By Julian Higgs
Why would anyone want to buy a 50 plus year of Fed 2 Russian Rangefinder camera? I have been interested in older LTM rangefinders ever since I bought a charity shop Fed 4 and a ...
13 August, 2020
Hanimex VEF Mini Camera Mini Review – by Tobias Eriksson
My very first own camera was one of those flat fold-out Kodak 110-format Instamatics. I remember making paper copies from 110 negatives with my father's old enlarger once I'd st...
13 August, 2020
Six of my Best Freebie Cameras – Part1: The SLRs – By Rock
This is about six cameras that I now own; great cameras I might add. Why, because they are classics? Are they the best of their class? Great performers? Valuable? To be honest, ...
11 August, 2020
Sprocket Rocket 2.0 Review – A Day at the Fair – By Alex Vye
The Sprocket Rocket is a plastic, panoramic 35mm camera that offers a 1:3 aspect ratio. The lens is a 30mm with f/10.8 and f/16 settings, and a fixed mechanical shutter with a s...
We’ve all got George Eastman and his Brownie cameras to thank for creating the tool for vernacular photography. That simple principle of combining a single element, fixed focus ...
I was given a Minolta X300 for my 21st birthday. It wasn’t my first camera but it was my first SLR, and I’m still using it 35 years later. For 23 years it was virtually all I us...
