Tag: Camera Review
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Camera review: the Nikon FE 2
Over the past few months, I’ve been trying to settle on “the one.” The one 35mm film camera that will serve all my photography needs.
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The Ultimate guide to the Hasselblad 2000FCW, a focal plane shutter unicorn
The Hasselblad 2000FCW was the third in the legendary Swedish company’s family of 6×6 focal plane shutter cameras. If you want to be able to use all Hasselblad lenses (including 13 lenses that can only be used with this
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Camera review: the Olympus IS-5000 bridge camera
2002 was a funny time for film cameras.
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Camera review: the Hasselblad 903 SWC
I’ve been photographing with analog cameras for over a decade now and this isn’t my first Hasselblad (previously owning a V-Series 500CM).
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Camera review: the RealitySoSubtle 6×12
I have been using digital cameras for the past 20 years. Like many of us, my love of photography began when I was a young using a little Kodak Brownie camera.
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Camera review: the Fuji Panorama GX617, a legendary panoramic behemoth
Beloved of landscape photographers, especially those involved with supplying images for calendars and home decor products both before and well into the digital camera era, the Fuji Panorama GX617 was the final iteration of Fuji’s legendary behemoth panoramic medium
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Camera review: The Pentax 67
It’s a beast, this Pentax. It weighs a ton and it’s hard to hang on to. It’s slow, has a terrible synch speed and everything is in full stops.
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Camera review: the Vermeer Anamorphic pinhole camera – no lens, lots of distortion
Sometimes, when visiting websites or just browsing pinhole pictures, I would stumble upon strange images that were created with a Vermeer anamorphic camera from Poland. Wow, what’s that? It sure produces beautiful crazy images.
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Camera review: First impressions of the Chroma Camera 4×5 AKA what’s your poison?
This isn’t so much of a review, more of a first-impressions-comparison. My experience with different 4×5, large format cameras is minimal, having bought an MPP Mark VIII a few years back and stuck with it.
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Camera review: the Kodak Instamatic 500 or, why I love 126 format film
The Kodak Instamatic 500 was the “jewel in the crown’ of the Kodak Instamatic line.
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Camera review: teak wood meets carbon fibre, the Chamonix C45F-2 4×5
After my first exposure to working with large format sheet film in a DIY pinhole camera, I decided to explore this line of film photography a bit further.
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Camera review: the Yashica Mat 124
“You can have it for £40, but the meter’s broken, so it’s sold as seen.
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Camera review: The mystery 6×7 rangefinder aka “The Nameless Camera”
Everyone enjoys a mystery and here’s an enigma that certainly has me scratching my head. Maybe you too, although it’s possible you might be able to help solve the puzzle.
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Sibling rivalry: Fujica GS645 & GS645S street photography shootout
The Fujica GS645 Professional and its sibling GS645S Professional are very much alike, but different enough that the cameras beg for comparison….which interestingly enough, is what this article is all about: a comparison of Fuji’s two most well-known and loved
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Camera review – the Zeiss Ikon Nettar II 517/16 6×6 folding camera
I bought my Zeiss Ikon Nettar 6×6 folder in 1992 for $50, pretty much in perfect nick. At the time I was shooting a Mamiya RB67 professionally; exclusively running Fuji Velvia through it for magazine covers and editorial work.
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Quick camera review: a week and a half with the new Lomography Diana Instant Square
I’ve written a bit for Lomography before and got a random email out of the blue asking if I was interested in testing out their new Diana Instant Square camera.
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Camera review: Fuji Instax SQUARE SQ6
Just a few weeks ago I had the pleasure to be invited by Fuji Europe to the launch of their new all-analog Instax SQUARE SQ6 camera in the Netherlands.
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Camera review: the Pentax 645
I have had a Pentax 645 for few months and have really enjoyed using it, so this is an attempt to put some thoughts together on it.
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The Hasselblad V-System master guide: CF, CF FLE and IHI lenses
I kicked off the previous article in this series by stating that in its V-System, Hasselblad created one of, if not the world’s most comprehensive and flexible medium format camera system.
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Camera review: the Rolleiflex SL66
Mention 6x6cm medium format film cameras to a photographer and most will immediately think Hasselblad. Mention Rolleiflex to the same group and they will almost certainly think of the well-respected range of twin lens reflex (TLR) cameras.