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21 April, 2018

Chinon 35 FS-II Review – Birth of a Review – By Ian

By Ian

This is a camera review and a birth story. Yes, you read that right. Chinon was a camera and movie camera lens manufacturer famous from its long line of film SLRs that uses eit...

20 April, 2018

Good night sweetheart & my little rant about toothpaste

By Hamish Gill

Anil Mistry has become a fairly regular contributor to this website, I’ve also met him on a photowalk, joined his Unusual Eyes photo group of his on Facebook, helped him sell so...

14 April, 2018

Konica AA-35 Reporter Review – By John Furlong

By John Furlong

I’ve always been attracted to the half-frame format and have examples of the Russian variants and the Canon and Olympus models. I was particularly interested in the Konica AA-35...

7 April, 2018

Hasselblad X-Pan Review – Fulfilling a Vision – By Cal Stewart

By CalStewart

It is probably easiest if I just come out and say it like this: The XPAN will forever hold a special place in my heart. It's been two years since I've owned it, and roughly 200...

31 March, 2018

Canon EOS 33 Review – An overlooked treasure – By Benn Murhaaya

By Benn Murhaaya

Hamish’s recent foray into the world of SLRs with his project involving a Nikon F75 struck a chord with me. While I am big on compact cameras, I have quite a few of them that I’...

28 March, 2018

Leicaflex Standard Review – by Jason S. Ganz

By Jason Ganz

The word Leica and film often brings up precision, manual operation, best-in-the-world optics, and ideations that shooting a Leica automatically makes one a professional – if no...

25 March, 2018

‘Analogue Photography – Reference Manual for Shooting Film’ – a Strong Recommendation

By Hamish Gill

I don't write many book reviews on here - thank's to the allure of the dreaded internet, I'm no longer the book reader I used to be (short of the odd Thomas the Tank Engine et a...

24 March, 2018

Olympus 35 SP vs Olympus 35 RC Review – Twins – By Matt Parry

By Mparry1234

The 1980s Hollywood stars Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzenegger are the unlikely match to play twin brothers in the aptly named 1988 film, Twins (stick with me on this one). As...

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