Five Photography Products We Want to See Rise From The Dead
It’s Halloween, All Hallows’ Eve, that ghoulish night of the year dedicated to remembering the dead. It’s also the night of the year in which the unlikely reanimation of rotting…
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Featured Photophile No. 010 – Yoshi’s Japanese Street Photography
Featured Photophile, our recurring segment showcasing talented amateur photographers is back with more photo inspiration for you. And this time we’re bringing you the work of a really talented young shooter…
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Let’s Roast – We Pick Our Most Hated Cameras
Get ready for some grumpy, burnt out bitching about camera stuff from writers who possibly spend a bit too much time shooting them. You’re still here? Wow. Well, let’s do…
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Minolta Hi-matic 7sII – 35mm Film Rangefinder Camera Review
Beginning in the late 1970s, camera manufacturers began to turn away from fun and discrete rangefinders to bulky, and often boring, SLRs. But before totally abandoning the once-popular rangefinder, each of…
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Desert Island Cameras No. 03 – Minolta Edition
We’re back with another installment of Desert Island Cameras, the recurring article in which we answer the question, “If you could only have one, which would it be?” That’s right…
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We Pick Your First Film Camera For Under $50
Recent articles by the likes of TIME magazine, BBC news, and others have announced to the masses what many of us have known for years – film photography is back. And…
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SMC Pentax M 40mm F/2.8 Pancake Lens Review
Lilliputian. Svelte. Teensy and weensy, and of course, teensy-weensy. All words I’d never expect to write in a lens review, yet here we all are and I might as well…
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Our Favorite Posts, Thanks, and Happy New Year
Hi everyone. James here. As you all surely know, the last few pages are being written and soon we’ll close the book on 2016. For us at Casual Photophile, it’s…
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Minolta XK – Camera Review
It was after climbing 2,000 feet above sea level, with several hundred more to hike, that I decided to hate Minolta’s XK. I stood hunched and panting over a tangle…
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Five Famous Photographers and the Cameras They Used
It’s no secret that we love our gear here at Casual Photophile. A quick glance through the archives is enough to illustrate our undying love for classic cameras, but while…
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Why I Choose the Minolta CLE Over Any Leica M
The best 35mm film cameras in the world are Leicas. This is a known fact, right? And the best of the best is surely the M series, yes? I mean, at…
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Minolta XE-5 – Camera Review
I began my photographic journey with a Minolta DSLR, the rather fantastic-in-its-day Maxxum 5D, so when I felt the urge to try some film shooting more than a decade later,…
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Minolta’s MD 50mm F/1.4 Might Be The Ultimate Standard Legacy Lens
Along with the runaway success of today’s mirrorless digital cameras, another segment of the photo gear market has seen a big rise. And while the products in question are neither…
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Minolta X-700 – Camera Review
I’ve long been a fan of Minolta’s cameras and lenses. The boys and girls working in Osaka were always among the most innovative, forward-thinking, and truly exceptional camera-makers. And while…
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