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15 November, 2024

Hasselblad X1D II 50C – A Week of Trying Digital Medium Format

By Sebastian Shields

After the recommendation from a friend to check out my school’s lending library, I went on a deep dive through all the gear available. After finding a Plustek 8200i as we...

Four cyclists ride along a cobbled street while fans cheer them on during the 2024 Tour of Flanders

13 November, 2024

Minolta Maxxum 7000 – Putting a €30 Camera Through Its Paces at Belgium’s Toughest Cycling Race

By Henry Paton

Belgium’s Tour of Flanders (De Ronde van Vlaanderen) snakes through Flander’s fields on a mixture of well-paved roads and what those in the know call ‘cobbl...

12 November, 2024

Thypoch 50mm 1.4 Simera review – A high spec rangefinder lens!

By Hamish Gill

I don’t often think of rangefinder lenses as being high spec. Being for manual cameras and requiring no electronic communication with the camera to work properly, they ar...

11 November, 2024

Pentax PC35AF-M – A Mini-Review

By Charles Higham

In 1982 Pentax launched its first autofocus compact camera in the shape of the Pentax PC35AF. It had a 35mm f/2.8 lens and manual film wind and a chunky, boxy styling softened w...

9 November, 2024

Kodak Tourist – The Most “Transformable” MF Folder?

By Dave Powell

It’s possible that Kodak’s last medium-format folding cameras – the Tourist line – may also be the most transformable MF “pocket folders”...

8 November, 2024

Nikon F2 Photomic – The game changer

By Julian Tanase

I sometimes think that Nikon could’ve stopped producing cameras after the apparition of the Nikon F2. The way this camera changed everything is engraved deeply in the wor...

7 November, 2024

Polachrome Polapan CT – A short-lived introduction from Polaroid

By Tony Warren

Some thoughts on a short lived Polaroid film from the 1980s.

6 November, 2024

Rollei XF 35 – First Impressions

By Sebastian Shields

I ran into this camera almost by accident. I was meandering through a vinyl record and camera store* and saw the small Rollei XF 35 hiding in a glass counter next to the registe...

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