This is an Olympus OM-4, a 35mm single lens reflex camera produced by Olympus Optical Company of Japan between the years 1983 to 1987. It was the successor to the Olympus OM-2N, and was the most advanced in the Olympus OM-series dating back to the original model from 1972. The…
This week’s featured post covers a topic I struggle with almost daily! Should I shoot color or black and white? Sure, there are times when the choice is obvious. A cold day in the middle of winter is perfect for a high contrast black and white film, and a springtime…
I’ve had an interest in photography for a large part of my life, but for the majority of that time, I never thought of cameras as something someone would collect. Why would you need more than one or two cameras, I thought? That all changed on some late summer day…
This is a Baldessa Ib, a 35mm rangefinder made by Balda Kamera-Werk in Bünde, West Germany starting in 1958. This was the third, and best featured of the original Baldessa lineup, improving upon lesser Baldessas with a coupled rangefinder and uncoupled selenium exposure meter. The camera was well built, but…
Camera technology and photography has changed massively over the past 100 years. When you consider at the turn of the last century, amateur photographers were using cardboard box cameras, and 50 years after that, they were using Argus C3s with coupled rangefinders, interchangeable lenses, and the ability to shoot film…
In my featured post of the week, Ludwig Hagelstein from EMULSIVE writes a gloriously in depth review of the legendary Pentacon Six TL. A monster of a medium format SLR that has a design reminiscent of the Kochmann Reflex-Korelle from the 1930s. Weighing in at over 1360 grams, this monster…
Today is April 30th, which means it is exactly halfway to Halloween 2019, so in the spirit of a day that’s not really Halloween, I provide you a screen cap from a Halloween movie, that’s not really a Halloween movie. That’s right, 1982’s Halloween III: Season of the Witch is…
The camera collecting world lost a good friend on Friday. Dr. Karl Havens was an avid collector and photographer who was one of the creators of the Classic Lenses Podcast, and an administrator of the Photography with Classic Lenses Facebook group. Karl was most known for his work with conservation…
It might surprise many people who still have a fondness for film that the number one best selling film today is Fuji’s Instax instant film. A small rectangular instant film, not unlike Polaroid’s classic film, Instax cameras are hot items for teenagers and millennials for the “MAGIC” of seeing a…
Following up on my post earlier this week for the Yashica Samurai X3.0 35mm half frame camera, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at an article from the April/May 1969 issue of Camera 35 magazine that explores the myth of half frame economy. Excluding half frame…
This is a Yashica Samurai x3.0, a half frame 35mm SLR made by Kyocera of Japan starting in 1988. The Samurai has a unique feature set, being one of the only vertically traveling half frame 35mm SLRs. It was also one of the first of a new genre of “bridge…
This week’s featured post is a review for the Coronet REX Flash by Alan Duncan at Canny Cameras. I love reviews like this of little known and basic cameras as they are often overlooked on many camera review sites and blogs. I’ve always made it a point here on my…
