My first year of shooting film Part 8 (Read Part 7 here) Since I started exploring film photography in the fall I have found myself on two more or less parallel paths: one is bl...
19 March, 2016
Zeiss Ikon ZM Review – The Ultimate AE M-mount Rangefinder…?
It's an interesting camera the Zeiss Ikon ZM. They seem to garner a level of approval that's often vocalised in broad sweeping terms such as "better than a Leica". Yet despite t...
18 March, 2016
Svema former USSR Bulk Film – by Eric ‘kAAs’ Sluis
For me, the secret is film from the former USSR, you need to find them of course, that’s half the battle, and you can find them, duh, in the former USSR and most interesting are...
In the last part of this story I was deliberating over the choice of converting the Yashica T4's Tessar vs the Nikon L35's Sonnar to M-mount. Whilst I was dead set on the latter...
5 March, 2016
Ricoh FF-8WR – one roll review
The Ricoh FF-8WR is one of a bunch of compact cameras that I didn’t recently get shot of. This might sound like an odd distinction to make, but recently I parted company w...
The Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim 35mm film camera (sometimes shortened to VUWS or UWS) was made in China and sold for not much money as a truly basic point and shoot with an unus...
24 February, 2016
Nightcap Pro – An iPhone camera app review
You're probably wondering what on earth a blog post about a camera app is doing on a website about 35mm compact cameras? Well it's quite simple, a lot of the photos I take of th...
22 February, 2016
Minolta Riva Panorama – A Fun Intermezzo – by Aukje
My first year of shooting film Part 6 (Read Part 5 here) I have a confession to make. I am starting to feel a bit like I am cheating, and slowly it is making me feel more uncomf...
