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  • 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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    Mamiya 7, N 80mm f/4 lens

    Mamiya 7 – First Impressions

    January 11, 2019

    Pigeonflex – Bird of a feather

    September 15, 2017

    Pinhole 4×5 – Lower than low-tech

    December 20, 2016
  • Yashica 44A
    Cameras,  Medium Format Reviews,  Reviews

    Yashica 44A – Twin in small package

    January 25, 2019 / 4 Comments

    The Yashica 44A is a TLR in a small package producing much larger results.

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    Olympus OM-1n

    Olympus OM-1n – Smaller is bigger

    October 20, 2021
    Bolseyflex

    Bolseyflex – Not much flex

    February 19, 2021
    Student Extinction Protest against firefighting cuts, Sydney, 2019 | Nikon F4s | Nikkor 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 AF D IF | Ilford HP5 Plus

    Extinction Rebellion Protests – with the Nikon F4s

    September 21, 2020
  • 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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    Olympus Pen EE-2 – An 11-year-old’s perspective

    January 3, 2017

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

    July 9, 2017

    Kodak Instamatic 133 – Not really instant or automatic

    February 23, 2019
  • Cameras,  Films,  Reviews

    Polaroid Sun 660 Autofocus Land Camera – Instant gratification

    January 12, 2018 / 1 Comment

    The Polaroid 600 series of instant cameras were widely distributed for easy way of everyone to have instant photos. Review of Sun 660 model.

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    Nikon F3

    Nikon F3 – Legend with a red stripe

    March 7, 2020
    Pentax Spotmatic SP

    Pentax Spotmatic SP – pentaX marks the spot

    January 1, 2021
    Agfa Karat 36

    AGFA Karat 36 v3 – 36 Carat Camera

    January 17, 2020
  • 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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    Pentax Spotmatic SP

    Pentax Spotmatic SP – pentaX marks the spot

    January 1, 2021
    Mamiya 7, N 80mm f/4 lens

    Mamiya 7 – First Impressions

    January 11, 2019

    Kodak Instamatic 133 – Not really instant or automatic

    February 23, 2019
  • Cameras,  Medium Format Reviews,  Reviews

    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

    Rank Mamiya – What’s in a name?

    March 30, 2019
    Leica M3

    Leica M3 – Double stroke of genius

    May 14, 2020

    Kodak No. 1 Pocket Autographic – The Original with EXIF Data

    May 27, 2017
  • 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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    Student Extinction Protest against firefighting cuts, Sydney, 2019 | Nikon F4s | Nikkor 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 AF D IF | Ilford HP5 Plus

    Extinction Rebellion Protests – with the Nikon F4s

    September 21, 2020

    Polaroid Spectra – Almost Instant

    May 11, 2018
    Holga 120N

    Holga 120N – The serious toy camera

    April 1, 2020
  • Photos,  Technique

    Icons of Sydney

    September 22, 2016 / 2 Comments

    Each city in the world has its own image and style defined by its people and landmarks.  Each city has specific icons, which help define it to the rest of the world.  As photographers, we sometimes concentrate so much on capturing something so different that we forget to capture the defining beauty of our city. In this project I am aiming at capturing what tourists know but locals forget is sometimes there.  This will be an ongoing project for me, I suspect years in the making, but in the end, it will encompass all of the well-known Icons of Sydney, but will also include some lesser known ones which normally…

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    Combinations – Fuji GSW690iii and Kodak Ektar

    July 20, 2018
    Auckland Skyline | Fuji GS645S | Kodak Portra 400

    One Hour, One Film

    September 27, 2019
    Student Extinction Protest against firefighting cuts, Sydney, 2019 | Nikon F4s | Nikkor 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 AF D IF | Ilford HP5 Plus

    Extinction Rebellion Protests – with the Nikon F4s

    September 21, 2020
  • 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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    Nikon Lite.Touch 140 Zoom ED AF

    Nikon Lite.Touch 140 Zoom – A little bit of luxury

    August 10, 2018
    Yashica 44A

    Yashica 44A – Twin in small package

    January 25, 2019

    Kodak No. 1 Pocket Autographic – The Original with EXIF Data

    May 27, 2017

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