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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

5 frames with an Instax Mini 99

By David Mackay

Note on the cover photo: It is simply impossible it seems to remove all evidence that I live with too many cats. This summer I caught the bug, and now absolutely riddled with it...

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

5 Frames with my Canon A1 and a roll of Ilford Pan F

By Cameron Kilpatrick

The Canon A1, released in 1978 was way ahead of it competition and further adding to the “prosumer” camera market. The following is from camera-wiki.org “It wa...

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...

10 November, 2024

5 Frames With the Leica M8 in Providence, Rhode Island

By LASousa

I walked about with this beautiful old box recently in the downtown Providence, Rhode Island area. Providence is a small city bathed in colors from the work of the active arts c...

10 November, 2024

5 Frames with Contax T and Fomapan 200

By Matt Benton

It’s been years since I shot 35mm film. With costs rising, and mediocre flatbed scans as my output, I was easily convinced that the format was not worth the effort. I had ...

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”...

Alan Gauld on 5 Frames from a Braun Paxina 29 – a mid 1950s “compact” camera.
It may well be camera movement because I was trying to use my tripod(that I had for my digital camera)…
Alan Gauld on 5 Frames from a Braun Paxina 29 – a mid 1950s “compact” camera.
Yes, I was surprised that the last frame was so soft, given it was at the highest speed. I hadn't…
Keith Drysdale on 5 Frames from a Braun Paxina 29 – a mid 1950s “compact” camera.
It's a shame that you didn't get the results you hoped for. I wonder if on the last shot the…

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