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8 September, 2025

Contax 167MT – an outstanding, but overlooked tool

By Peter Schu

The design of the Contax 167MT is different from any other analog camera, other Contax cameras included. I purchased my Contax 167MT in 1992 and I have been using it since then....

6 September, 2025

Voigtlander Vito BL repair fail and GAS-fired workaround

By Simon Foale

Lee Miller could completely strip down her Rolleiflex ‘to the last nut and bolt’ and reassemble it in the dark ‘in some crummy billet’, according to her son, Antony Penrose. Thi...

5 September, 2025

Nons Instant Back – Is this a review…?

By Michael Morales

The Nons instant back has been out for a while now… so I’ll spare you the technical review, unboxing, and product photos. Instead I’d like to tell you why this product is perfec...

4 September, 2025

Solinon Optik 18mm f/5.6 ASPH Review & Super Wides are Not Just for Buildings

By Rollin Banderob

Super-wide lens’s promotional materials, reviews and forum posts seem to lean heavily to architectural and landscape images. That generally is not how I have used this cla...

1 September, 2025

Fuji STX-2 and the X-mount bayonet cul-de-sac

By Bob Janes

Fuji Photo Film started up in the 1930s producing film and photographic material. They grew to be Japan’s largest film producer. Along the way, they made a series of cameras, ai...

29 August, 2025

Contax T – The OG one The Kardashians should’ve had

By Ibraar Hussain

The Contax T, the one that started off which is now a cult like series of high end electronic Compact Cameras. I had hitherto owned and photographed with the other T series came...

28 August, 2025

Brownie 2A – a final follow up.

By Tony Warren

Browenie 2A and mask to match 120 film width.

A mamiya C330 F and a Nikon FM with a Phoenix box and a roll of Phoenix 120

27 August, 2025

Harmon Phoenix – a semi-begrudging love note with a farewell tear goodbye.

By Alastair Holland

As I imagine many of you already know, in late 2023, Harman released a new colour film, which was the first colour film that they have produced; formerly only making black and w...

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