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  • Nikkenflex
    Cameras,  Medium Format Reviews,  Reviews

    Nikkenflex – Twin focus

    February 2, 2022 / 2 Comments

    The Nikkenflex is a TLR which was available for a short time and is now hard to find. Two models are reviewed.

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    August 17, 2016
  • Bolseyflex
    Cameras,  Medium Format Reviews,  Reviews

    Bolseyflex – Not much flex

    February 19, 2021 / 6 Comments

    The Bolseyflex is a medium format 6x6 pseudo-TLR. A very ornate simple camera which I tried out a couple of times.

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    February 16, 2018

    Yashica Electro 35 GL

    August 31, 2016
  • Holga 120N
    Cameras,  Reviews

    Holga 120N – The serious toy camera

    April 1, 2020 / 5 Comments

    The Holga 120N is iconic for producing unpredictable results. It has been a lot of fun shooting creatively with it.

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    September 7, 2016
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    Nikon F3 – Legend with a red stripe

    March 7, 2020
  • Walzflex
    Cameras,  Medium Format Reviews,  Reviews

    Walzflex – The slow dance

    August 16, 2019 / 12 Comments

    The Walzflex is a Japanese Twin Lens Reflex (TLR) from he 1950s. Aimed at the consumer, it was reviewed against modern emulsions.

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    Lomography Fisheye 2 – Fishbowl world

    October 8, 2020
    Nikon F2 Photomic

    Nikon F2 – Ultimate Legend

    April 20, 2019

    Kodak Retina IIa – Coat Pocket Rocket

    September 21, 2018
  • Cameras,  Medium Format Reviews,  Reviews

    Rolleicord Va Type 1 – The middle twin

    March 16, 2018 / 7 Comments

    The Rolleicord Va Type 1 is a Twin Lens Reflex medium format camera which shoots a classic 6x6 format. TLRs are fun, especially with the Rollei quality.

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    November 5, 2017

    Kiev 4 – The Non-Clone

    October 26, 2018

    Kodak Retinette 1B Type 037 – Fat Boy

    February 9, 2017
  • Cameras,  Medium Format Reviews,  Reviews

    Pigeonflex – Bird of a feather

    September 15, 2017 / 3 Comments

    A camera to allow your photography to take flight?  To release your creativity free as a bird? Probably enough bird puns for now.  So, was the Pigeonflex a camera to set the cat amongst the Pigeons? Ok that was one more. Twin Lens Reflex (TLR) cameras are an interesting type of camera.  They have a history in street photography, especially the Rolleiflex, yet they are designed quite different from the rangefinders which are generally thought of as street cameras.  They shoot in square format, like well-known Hasselblad studio cameras, but are designed to be used mobile.  You look through the viewfinder, with the image reflected by a mirror, like a…

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    Bolseyflex – Not much flex

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    Combinations – Zorki 4 and Redscaled Film

    October 12, 2018
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    Agfa Jsolette 4.5 – When J is not a J

    September 5, 2017 / 2 Comments

    The Agfa Isolette range of cameras have a cult following.  That includes me as I own both Isolette and Jsolette labelled cameras.  The ability to shoot medium format, especially 6×6, with a camera that is small and at a stretch pocketable, is very enticing.  Throw in the fact that they look lovely, and you can understand the popularity.  I personally like quite a few different “folders” as you can see by another review of the Voigtlander Perkeo I. This model is the Agfa Jsolette 4.5.  Agfa has used the names Jsolette and Isolette interchangeably, as the letter J referred to an I in German.  There is a misconception that the…

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    Rank Mamiya – What’s in a name?

    March 30, 2019

    Rolleicord Va Type 1 – The middle twin

    March 16, 2018
    Yashica 44A

    Yashica 44A – Twin in small package

    January 25, 2019
  • Cameras,  Medium Format Reviews,  Reviews

    Ensign Ful-Vue – Is it really the full view?

    July 9, 2017 / 2 Comments

      When does a box camera not look like a box camera?  When it is the Ensign Ful-Vue from 1946.  Until then most were basically a box with a lens on the front.  There were a few variants, including box cameras that had better viewing lenses and looked more like Twin Lens Reflex cameras, but still generally had a box shape.  When Ensign released the Ful-Vue they moved to a very modern shape for the period, and I think created one of the most striking looking box cameras ever. I picked this camera up when I was living in London around 1999 and promptly put it on a shelf.  While…

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    Kodak Instamatic 133 – Not really instant or automatic

    February 23, 2019
    Hasselblad XPan

    Hasselblad XPan – Xpand the panoramic

    May 23, 2019

    Canon Sure Shot A1 – Summer Love

    April 6, 2018
  • Cameras,  Medium Format Reviews,  Reviews

    Voigtländer Perkeo I

    August 17, 2016 / 23 Comments

    The Voigtländer Perkeo I is a small folding 6x6 medium format camera. It is as much fun to use as it sounds.

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    Olympus XA3 – Red cameras go faster

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    February 16, 2018

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