Matthias R

Clutched focus ring like on some Olympus lenses? That's realy nice.

You buy a $7.000 Leica to show off, and then a boutique lens produced in 30 copies to show off again... people don't buy fancy wine, designer furniture, you name it, because they like it that much....

The Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 is small, and image quality is pretty good on Panasonic bodies. But due to weird choices of coating it produces a lot of purple fringing on Olympus bodies, focusing is...

Normally in Polaroid cameras the battery is a part of the film pack. Did they change that?

Nahhhh.... already done:

https://www.35mmc.com/27/08/2021/panasonic-gf1-7artisans-18mm-my-analog-point-shoot-experience-digital-camera-by-frankie-bina/

"something like a Olympus Mju ii f/2.8"... having the Instax cameras, Fujifilm would be in a pretty good position to do that actually. And that might serve their film business better that recurrent...

If Cosina is to do it, they could redirect the compact 35 too 😊. With a nice looking design (that camera has had so many already) it could be quite an attractive offer

Pretty much what I was going to write. If someone were to resurrect the Cosina CT1 (entry level SLR sold under plenty of brands including Nikon) in PK mount, or come up with something similar, I'm...

"If you’re brave enough to attempt your own Cablecam, be sure to shoot us a message so we can feature it as well."
I assume it implies succeeding ;)

Loots of interesting stuff here! Thanks for sharing :)

You really get to wonder how things would have gone if Asahi had indeed implemented a bayonet mount on the Spotmatic - as planned with the prototype - rather than sticking with M42 to keep up with...

It's not plastic, it's proper glass. The Smena (specially the early variants) and the Lubitel are quite interesting in that they are designed to cut every corner possible without losing any...

Did they actually tear off a page from Balzac's Le Père Goriot for the picture?
Well, at least they have good taste in literature!

Aren't movies full of jokes and finities only affcionados will catch on? ;)

I'd bet noone out there actually use all buttons and dials on their cameras, but everyone uses some of them and would hat to see them go. The thing is, each user finds a different subset of buttons...

Or 70 cents for a generic lens cap :)

And then there is the famous tendency of many Leica fans not to take seriously anything that’s not super expensive.

Do I get to enjoy being the first smartass to note there is no 645 film? Damn! Anyways, given the margin I get on my various MF film cameras, 54 x 40.5mm sounds pretty much like the area your...

How many of these can you buy for the price extra Leica gets for their collector editions? ;)

Rather than banning them from going up there, what about make them pick (some of) the garbage that is littering that mountain?
Defacing beautiful sites for a femtosecond of social media fame, for...