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With all the glory from the 80's: The Ricoh FF-3AF
The golden age of photography, according to a half-hearted Internet research I performed before writing this article, is considered to be from the 1930's through the 50's. This time frame makes sense if you consider the amount of progress that was made within the period. Cameras became lighter, portable, accessible, and most importantly image ... Read more
Pextax iQZoom 150SL: A little piece of gold
Recently, I found out one of my favourite camera vendors was leaving the local flea market. He had been running a stand at the flea market for a little over a decade and he was now in is mid seventys and age was taking a toll on him. He struggled to haul his wares around, and the exposure to the weather at the outdoor market wasn't helpful either. ... Read more
It's OK to get it all wet: Pentax zoom90-WR
I have made it no secret, how I used to naively look down on point-and-shoot film cameras. Lately, I have come to regard them as incredible pieces of engineering. When you truly think about them, even the very average ones you can find, you realize how well these cameras were made. Several intricate parts like motors, gears, and electronics packed ... Read more
Double feature: Olympus' AF-1, and Infinity Quartzdate
A little back story. If you've been following this blog — and I doubt anyone is at the moment — you'd have noticed that I'm currently working through, in some chronological fashion, descriptions of the cameras in my cheap camera collection. In each post, I give a very unconventional review of one of the cameras in my collection. I avoid ... Read more
The weird and interesting: Chinon Infrafocus 35F-MA
While lugging around my Canon AFM35, I received a lot of compliments from folk who were just happy to see someone still shooting on film. Generally, it seems everyone has moved on and no one shoots on film anymore. This meant that, people had lots of questions along lines of: "do they still make film?", and "are the labs still ... Read more
A pleasant surprise with the Canon AF35M point and shoot
At this stage in my "cheap camera" photography journey, my quest was to score good SLRs. My motivation, of course, was driven by a false belief that SLRs are the only camera form factors that could deliver quality images. This notion was probably ingrained by how all professional photographers I saw — almost everywhere — used ... Read more