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...
30 September, 2022
Minolta Hi-Matic 7s – My Gateway Drug into the World of Camera Collecting – By Markus Hainz
As with most photographers over a certain age, I began my photography shooting film back in the late 1980s. By the mid 2000s I was shooting only digital for work and decided to ...
My name is François, and I’m a 30 year old born in Belgium and currently living in Denmark. When I was around 15, my granddad gave me his Canon AE-1, describing it to me at the ...
The Hi-Matic E (previously also reviewed by Hamish here) is a Minolta rangefinder with a Rokkor lens. The lens is a 40 mm f/1.7 lens of six elements in four groups. The same spe...
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...
8 November, 2021
Konica Auto S3 – Small and Perfectly Formed – 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
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...