9 February, 2014
Ricoh GR1 – A tale of repair and repeated woe
In my previous Ricoh GR1 post, I was at a point in my relationship with it where we had just recently gone our separate ways. Nearly a year on, and a lot has happened ...
“We were doing a little bit of cleaning up and found this. It is now yours.” It was with these words that I was handed a small black fake leather case with a small...
4 February, 2014
Fuji Klasse W Review – My final thoughts
It feels like a long time since I started my Fuji Klasse W review, yet it’s not even a year! I suppose it has been quite an eventful time for me and my photography since I...
22 November, 2013
Contax T2 Review – it’s chunky, it’s very expensive, but it’s good!
More so than any 35mm af/ae compact camera I have yet used, the Contax T2 feels the part in the hand. My very first impression of handling the camera was definitely a positive o...
31 October, 2013
Olympus XA Review – Another Classic Oly – by Daniel VanDurmen
Ok, the Olympus XA isn’t perfect, but Yoshihisa Miatani’s design is still impressive, even 34 years on. A small, affordable, pocketable, 35mm f2.8 lens camera, with ...
The Olympus mju-ii feels like a bit of a mountain to climb in terms of giving it a review. Not for it’s feature set or for how complex it is use. It is in fact a very simp...
The instant you see the Ricoh ff90 you know it was made in the 1980’s. it looks like it got in a fight with 80’s style and lost! Just look at those angles! I am fort...
8 July, 2013
Konica Big Mini Review – Yeah, it’s not bad …
I bought the Konica big mini from a charity shop, I was so excited to have found a camera that I had read such positive reviews about in a charity shop. It was maybe all this ex...