At some point in the first half of the 90s I was very much into 16mm and Minox format film photography (still am); 35mm was something of a side thing, with 120 MF just a ro...
The Rollei 35 may be the best secret of all. Introduced in 1966, this miniature 35mm film viewfinder camera is more than the sum of its beautifully engineered parts. With a litt...
My photographic journey took a new route recently. I had been scared of scale focus and viewfinder cameras for years - I mean how would one shoot people and portraits with a sha...
The Olympus XA2 is tiny, it is quick to turn on, it's zone focus, and has a brilliant lens. In my humble opinion, it is the best EDC (every day carry) and travel camera, and a g...
In 1955, having attained the grand old age of 16 and somehow managed to pass 8 of the 9 GCE O-levels I had sat, I received a neat little blue and silver box as a reward for one ...
The Olympus Trip 35 is a compact 35mm viewfinder camera released in the late 1960s that sold millions of units and had a long production run. It’s a famous benchmark camera for ...
I can't recall any family vacation, outing, gettoghether when I was young that my dad didn't have his Voigtländer with him. It almost seemed an integral part of him. Not that he...
The Instamatic cameras are anachronisms. The bloated cameras are detested plastic garbage these days. The film format they were designed for is not manufactured any more. Did co...
