SLR Cameras

Semi pro camera

Advantages: Lightweight and easy to use
Disadvantages: Manual focus can be tricky

This is one of my favourite cameras to use especially for wildlife photography. It is lightweight due to the body being made of plastic but still rugged enough to cope with everyday life. The viewfinder is large and bright so any manual adjustments of ...

wildtinsey 07.04.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Pentax MZ 5N

Great travel companion

Advantages: size, performance, easy use, viewfinder
Disadvantages: flash adapter

The Pentax MZ-5N has been a great travel companion for me through the last few years taking pictures in North America and large parts of Europe. No problems ever, whatever the weather or conditions. Also brilliant in theatres and on movie locations. Thoug ...

dkoch 18.11.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Pentax MZ 5N

Exellent buy

Advantages: Performance, reliable, ease of use, clear viewfinder
Disadvantages: None

Since buying this camera four years ago it has it has seen extensive use, most intensively with fourteen films shot in ten days on a trip to China, with some stunning results. Since then the majority of use has been shooting landscape, largely using the s ...

TheZigStar 15.12.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Pentax MZ 5N

As good as 35mm ever got

Advantages: Compact stare of the art (for 1974) still to be reckoned with
Disadvantages: Isn't digital and never will be

The Olympus OM-2 is my all-time favourite 35mm film camera body. Historically, Olympus were known for producing excellent small cameras, either in ‘compact’ full frame, or half frame format. Whereas most other SLR manufacturers were trying to make thei ...

dobieg 23.01.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Olympus OM 2

A cracker in the hands of a skilled photographer

Advantages: Can be picked up cheaply
Disadvantages: Has very little bells and whistles

The Olympus OM 2 is a camera from another era, which has it s roots in the seventies. Today this doesn't make the OM 2 any less of a camera. In fact if truth be known the cameras features don't necessarily make you take pictures any better. What the pu ...

jarjar65uk 08.06.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Olympus OM 2