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25 September, 2017

Olympus L-10 Panorama Review – Guest Post by EMULSIVE

By EMULSIVE

The Olympus L-10 Panorama (known as the IS-100 outside of Japan), was released in 1994 as part of a "new series of zoom lens-integrated, single lens reflex cameras in an L-shape...

23 September, 2017

Hawkesmill Borough Leather Camera Strap Review

By Hamish Gill

The Hawksmill Borough Leather Camera Strap is an adjustable length riveted Horween leather camera strap. It's soft, strong, and (at its longest) really quite long...

16 September, 2017

Voigtlander 50mm 3.5 VM Heliar – a review of two halves

By Hamish Gill

The Voigtlander f/3.5 50mm VM Heliar is a unusual lens that appears to me to have a fairly quiet, but almost invariably positive reputation. There isn’t a huge amount writ...

9 September, 2017

Ricoh 500GX Review – Spirit of ’76 – by Chris Pattison

By Chris Pattison

Now that's over 40 years ago, so marvel I do at my Ricoh 500GX, complete with pristine case and plastic lens cap, which looks like it has just left the production line in Taiwan...

3 September, 2017

Canon Sureshot Multi Tele Review – Adventures in Half Frame Part 2 – by Anil Mistry

By Anil Mistry

I really liked the Olympus Pen EE-2 I talked about in part 1 of my half frame adventure... But I also like the automation and flash in a point and shoot, so I started to wonder ...

2 September, 2017

Olympus Pen EE-2 Review – Adventures in Half Frame Part 1 – by Anil Mistry

By Anil Mistry

...The solution? Shoot less, or shoot more for the same amount of money. The former isn’t an option, but the latter? ...hmmm... ...This thought led me down a little side alley ...

28 August, 2017

Disposable Cameras Review – Cheap, Fun, and Dependable – by Rick Davy

By rd

More recently I've started to come across disposable cameras whilst searching the car boats and charity shops of the world for film related stuff. The more I found and bought, t...

27 August, 2017

Jupiter-8m (Brian Sweeney modified) – Finding My Perfect Classic Sonnar PT8

By Hamish Gill

If you've been following this series of posts about the path I've been walking to find myself a perfect classic Sonnar, you will have likely come to the conclusion that I've bec...

Gary Smith on Standing still while the music moves – Shooting musicians with point & shoot film cameras
Luckily at age 24 you likely still have the brain cells to enable you to remember what was shot first…
Hamish Gill on Contax G2 – The Most Advanced Rangefinder
It's also named a AF Rangefinder in the Contax brochure - https://www.brochuremuseum.nl/cameras/contaxg2en22.html
Charles E on Standing still while the music moves – Shooting musicians with point & shoot film cameras
Hi. Thanks for sharing this post. It's a really good read, and the feeling conveyed in these pictures takes me…

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