First things first. I really like the look of this little camera. It’s a lovely little unit in a tasteful shade of champagne with gold accents. Do you remember when cool consume...
22 February, 2020
Yashica T4 Review – Goodbye to an old friend – By Clive Williams
The Yashica T4 and I go back a long way: right back to 1993, when I bought one in Birmingham as a quick and pocketable complement to my Pentax SLR kit. I’d looked at the Olympus...
21 February, 2020
Canon Sure Shot Zoom XL Review – An Elegant Brute – By Mike Hannon
I got into film photography shooting a nifty fifty on an Olympus OM body while I was on holiday. I don’t think I even had a battery for the meter. But according to Kirk Mastin’s...
18 February, 2020
Ricoh GRIII and GR1s Experience Comparison by a Film Agnostic – By Steven Bleistein
I am sure to get some grief about this piece given that my last article on the analog Ricoh GR1s ended with my resolution that I was not interested in buying a digital GR. Well,...
23 January, 2020
Olympus Stylus Epic Zoom 80 – Mini Review – By Will Hopkins
A film photography friend recently clued me in to the best local spot for thrifting film cameras (sorry, can't say where - sharing the good thrifting spots is a trust not easily...
14 January, 2020
Olympus XA3 Review – Highs and Lows of Travel Photography with a Simple Compact Camera – By Keith Tomlinson
Well, what can I say? I fell foul of hype and hyperbole this year and I have learnt my lesson. I own a perfectly good Olympus Trip and a Rollei 35 but no that was not enough! ...
29 December, 2019
Panasonic GM1 Review: A Digital ILC Alternative to the Olympus XA2? – by Charles Higham
The Olympus XA2 has, for decades, been a popular small 35mm film compact you can carry around in your pocket. An excellent piece of design, it's simple to operate with zone focu...
I have owned a Leica Minilux for more than 20 years. The truth, though, is that I am not a compact camera kind of guy. The Minilux was the antithesis of my then shooting philoso...