Recent content by MarkTrent

Another £1 find (Canon AF35M), needs a bit of a clean but fully working. Anyway f2.8/AF/Manual ISO in a point and shoot is always nice.

Not really, I don't feel my old mid level Nikon did anything better then my A6000 or later A7/A7ii. I did go back to Nikon pro film slr's amoung others and I went back to my Canon point and shoots. I think it comes down to a need not being met for an individual. If you were pro body/glass...

YouTube and Instagram has pushed up anything with a Carl Zeiss or Canon logo. The Canon AE-1 Programs and Pentax K1000 I've sold got bid up to a silly price. Anything Contax, the Olympics XA line has been getting pushed up, Nikon F100 is going up for some reason. Bessa R stuff has just gotten...

I've seen a lot of forum post over the years of Sony not complying with the cashback schemes. It's a great prices, I'd love to hear how smooth the cash back process is for future purchases as I do like Sony kit.

That's good to know. This one had a battery leak at some point, but I've cleaned it out with isopropyl alcohol and its working fine. Good to know its sharp, I quite like these type of fixed focus cameras for shooting family/friend stuff as they are basic/near impossible to screw up. I've made up...

Car boot sale find. I've never shot one of the pop series and from the look and feel it very much feels like a cheap point and shoot, but it was 50p and I've always liked Hexanon branded slr lenses.

You can get a secound gen A7 fairly reasonably nowaday. I've used a lot of M43/M39, Minolta and Olympus glass on cropped Sony's and Fuji's. With all of the Industar lenses I prefer the look on a cropped sensor, but this is not really an objective/scientific approach, more a going out with my...

I went to a couple of car boot sales today and completely struck out. The only cameras I found were APS and even know I like bulk loading odd ebay films, I'm not going to go down the rabbit hole of working out how to hand roll APS film, I did that with 110 and 16mm subminiature cameras, too much...

The Sony RX100 III is kind of hard to beat at the price point it is nowadays and beats the images coming out of my personal Pixie 3 or my work iPhone X.

If you are just getting back in I'd likely stick with C41 based films, as getting them process is still cheap and easy. I'd stick with XP2, Kodak Gold or Kodak ColorPlus as all are low cost and will get solid results when shot in your Olympus Trip 35. If you want to venture outside of easy to...

Shot in Guernsey on my phone earlier today.

Picked up an XA1 for £1. Its not the best point and shoot, but it had a fully working light meter, it had the flash unit and it was working and only needed new light seals. As holiday cameras go this is a solid choice, as I can load in a roll of Kodak Ultra Max and not have to worry about...

Yeah the Pixel line of phones have a night sight mode, or whatever they call it. Its basically image stacking with a load of voodoo magic on top to get a workable image. My 140 was replaced with a Canon ixy220f I got in Japan from a junk bin in Hard Off. They both use the same battery/charger...

I still have and use my two old Canon Ixus, one of which is the 140. I've also got a current gen Google Pixel. I prefer the Canon Ixus down to the lens and not draining my phone's battery, which I need for maps. The Canon Ixus seems to close focus/macro better and the auto focus in all...

I'd argue Voyager felt more like classic Star Trek then the last two attempts. The Borg is an interesting direction with the whole Picard/Locutus thing.