At a time when film prices started to soar and all my gear had been lost to a thief on a train, ORWO N 74plus came to my rescue. I have a special relationship with the ORWO brand because of my ...

There’s no arguing that in the V-System, Hasselblad created one of, if not the world’s most comprehensive and flexible medium format camera system. The V-System comprises of somewhere in the region of ...

To the uninitiated, the V-System is a black box; totally impenetrable. If you’re coming to it for the first time and think you have everything nailed down, I’m here to tell you that you are likely ...

On a smaller scale, film cameras through the ages provide us with insights into how the minds of designers and artists clustered in different parts of the world interpreted solutions to the challenges ...

The AX was produced by Kyocera who took indirect stewardship of the CONTAX brand following their purchase of Yashica in 1983. Unable to convince Carl Zeiss, the CONTAX brand licensee, to create a ...

The previous section of this series covered the early generations of lenses for the Hasselblad 500 series (500C, 500CM, etc.), 200 and 2000 series cameras. I began by stating that in its V-System, ...

The Pentacon Six TL is a phenomenon of a camera. When I first got mine, I almost fell in love with it, because I liked the idea of shooting 6x6 and was fascinated by the bulky yet somehow elegant ...

In 1993, Mamiya released the Mamiya 645 Pro, the camera pictured above and the subject of this review. This camera was produced until 1998. A variant of this camera, the 645 Pro TL, was manufactured ...

If you’ve read the previous two parts, you’ll know that I’m a huge fan of the Mamiya RZ67’s lenses. They are very sharp and they produce really fantastic images. The lens system ranges from the Mamiya ...

If you, like me, have a film/photo scanner made at any time during the late 20th to the early 21st century and are struggling to get it to work with modern computer hardware, I’ve done my very best to ...

If you’re reading this guide, you’re probably new to RA-4 colour printing. Don’t worry, until recently, so was I. Over the past few months, I have spent a lot of time finding information about and ...

This test covers almost 15 years of 35mm compact cameras, so it’s not something anyone would have been able to back in the day because the cameras did not all exist at the same time. Then, of course, ...