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29 December, 2016

Voigtlander f/1.5 50mm Nokton LTM – Review by Hern Tan

By Hern Tan

The Voigtlander Nokton f/1.5 50mm is a lens that has long been compared to, unfairly, as the lesser of the two 50mm f/1.5 lenses offered in M mount (or in this case LTM), being ...

26 December, 2016

MS-Optics 21mm f/4.5 Perar Review- a tiny, and very eccentric lens

By Hamish Gill

The MS-Optics 21mm f/4.5 Perar is, without a doubt the smallest lens I've ever shot with on a Leica rangefinder. In fact, it's probably one of the smallest full frame lenses eve...

14 December, 2016

Leica M6 – In Praise of the Classic- by Hokari57

By hokari57

Simply put, It's my opinion that the Leica M6 is the best of the film M bodies that you can hope to shoot with. How I came to realize this only took me a MP, a M3 and a M4 to sh...

11 December, 2016

Ricoh GR1 – will it dethrone my Olympus XA2? – by Frank Lehnen

By Frank Lehnen

Since this morning, I'm the proud owner of a Ricoh GR1. I've really longed to try this camera out, so I thought I would try to give a day by day report or review of my early exp...

3 December, 2016

Leica M-D: To M-D or not to M-D? – By Adam Singer

By Adam Singer

So a man walks into a camera store - stop me if you have heard this one - and says, ‘ I want that new Leica MD’. That’s the full frame all singing but no dancing digital Leica w...

26 November, 2016

Zeiss Ikon Taxona Review – Shooting Square – by Rajmohan Fotograf

By rajmohan fotograf

Being aware of square format only in the context of medium format cameras, I was intrigued by a recent thread in a photography forum in which 35mm square format cameras (such as...

22 November, 2016

Lomo LC-Wide Review – The Ultra-wide, Point & Shoot

By Hamish Gill

Since the day it was released I've been intrigued by the Lomography Lomo LC-Wide. It's not often these days that new film cameras are brought to market, never mind one that offe...

20 November, 2016

Minox 35GT Review – Ilford HP5 & the Streets of Berlin – by Jean-Christophe Wiart

By Jean-Christophe WIART

When I think about Berlin, there are tons of things that cross my mind; there's the famed subculture of this city, and places like the Kunsthaus Tacheles, the wall, the wastelan...

Ibraar Hussain on 5 Frames with a Rolleiflex 3.5F and Rollei Pan 25 in Tretower Castle
thank you though as i mentioned above im looking for a MPP Microflex, far cheaper and as good all round…
Ibraar Hussain on Contax G2 – The Most Advanced Rangefinder
great post and a fantastic camera which i wrote about here: https://www.35mmc.com/21/07/2023/contax-g2-the-finest-camera-ever-to-see-my-minds-eye/
Hamish Gill on 5 frames with a borrowed Konica IIIa
I have the skills, I just chose not to use them

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