Rangefinder Cameras Archives

8 March, 2022

Contax G1 – Much more in-focus than out-of-focus – By Chantel Wakefield

By Chantel Wakefield

“I loved owning one for two weeks until every photo came back out of focus.” This was a comment from a popular YouTuber under another popular YouTuber’s review of the Contax G1 ...

31 January, 2022

Kodak Retina IIIC – Back into Film with a Charity Auction Find – By Stewart Waller

By Stewart Waller

I recently fell for analog cameras, especially vintage ones. It feels like a rabbit hole much of the time, chasing that elusive, cosmetically beautiful, functionally accurate, 6...

10 December, 2021

Pixii (A1571) Review – New Upgrades and Some Personal Experiences

By Hamish Gill

For a long time, the only digital rangefinders on the market were Leicas. Now there’s Pixii. A screen-less, APS-C sensor, “connected” rangefinder that’s quite a lot less cash th...

8 November, 2021

Konica Auto S3 – Small and Perfectly Formed – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

Coinciding with their centenary in the early 70s, Konica fused two of their camera lines together. Since 1968 they had made a compact rangefinder camera called the C35. They had...

1 November, 2021

Canonet Review – 43 Years in Preparation – By Bob Janes

By Bob Janes

In a way, this Canonet review has been 43 years in preparation. I was a teenager when I got into photography. I used to borrow my father’s various rangefinder cameras: fixed len...

28 September, 2021

Leica IIf Red Dial: Nostalgia, or Tool for Serious Storytelling? – By Exphotog

By exphotog

After years of working as a concert photographer, I decided to move to analog full-time last year. The transition wasn’t easy—I had to reconcile the comfort of shooting 900 fram...

21 September, 2021

The Leica IIIF RD – My First Impressions – By Alyssa Chiarello

By Alyssa Chiarello

When I first saw the Leica IIIF, it was in a video someone posted on Instagram that demonstrated how to load film into the camera. I’d heard about these rangefinders being a rea...

27 July, 2021

Minolta Hi-Matic 7s and A Sentimental Journey Discovering True Optical Prints – by Shawn Granton

By shawn granton

It was the first week of January 2020 and I was down for the count with a cold. "A perfect start to a new year", I thought to myself, not realizing what would be in store just a...

Marco Andrés on Converting Colour and B&W Film Negs – an Evolution
You are welcome. I discovered the manual inversion method quite by chance. Thought I would share it with the 35mmc…
Marco Andrés on Converting Colour and B&W Film Negs – an Evolution
I do indeed set the mode to divide rather than subtract. Slide film [positive] is a totally different animal than…
Marco Andrés on Converting Colour and B&W Film Negs – an Evolution
Well even b/w is complex but not as noticeable since most people do not see i b/w. I've also used…

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