“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 ...
10 December, 2021
Pixii (A1571) Review – New Upgrades and Some Personal Experiences
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
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...
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
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...
Fujifilm. The name alone sparks feelings of adoration for some and rage from others. What about you? Does it make you think of Velvia? The X-series digital cameras? Maybe i...
27 July, 2021
Minolta Hi-Matic 7s and A Sentimental Journey Discovering True Optical Prints – 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...