24 February, 2025
Canon 7 and a Industar 26m – Initial thoughts and experiences
Canon 7 with Industar 26M. Sample photos.
9 June, 2023
Canonet QL17 GIII – This camera almost has it all
For years, I’ve been searching for a fast, easy to carry, inconspicuous film camera to take with me wherever I go. I’ve gone through a number of the usual suspects, including th...
10 May, 2023
Canon VI-T (a Tale of a Treasured Camera)
What makes a camera treasured? Often, it was owned by a family member. Or it may simply become an invaluable part of a photographer’s arsenal. This beautiful, tank-like, Canon V...
1 November, 2021
Canonet Review – 43 Years in Preparation – 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...
22 June, 2021
Canonet 28 Review – The modest Canon – By Bob Janes
There have been at least two cameras called a Canonet 28. The first was a very basic viewfinder camera with a selenium cell. This is the second one, sometimes called the 'New 28...
5 November, 2019
Canon Model 7 – A Journey To Find “My” Camera – By Gavin Bain
It has often been said that a lot of the great photographers had “their” camera. Capa had his Contax 2, Cartier-Bresson his M3, John Free his Nikon F3 and so forth. That’s not t...
21 December, 2018
Canon QL17 Giii review – Discovering cameras I’d Missed Along the Way – Part 1 – By Steve Ember
Over the past few years, I’ve been enjoying rediscovering a type of camera that I’d somehow “leapfrogged” past in my youthful headlong rush to transition from more basic equipme...
28 October, 2018
Canon P (for Populaire) thread mount rangefinder mini-review
The Canon P - or "Populaire", as the P stands for - is a Leica thread mount rangefinder camera released the late 1950’s. There were a lot of these cameras sold, something like 1...