I’ve had Minolta film SLRs in bygone times and been hugely impressed with them. One of my favorites was the Minolta Maxxum (Dynax) 7000, nothing less than the first SLR to feature autofocus, and with ...

The 61MP 7R cameras are almost two bodies in one, as you can use the Super 35 mode, which uses only the centre portion of the sensor, to turn it into an APS-C body and still retain over 20MP.

For reasons I can’t quite explain—my contrarian nature, perhaps, or the inferiority complex that comes with being a Pentax shooter—it pains me to heap praise on Nikon. It’s impossible to deny that ...

ASTROTRACER simplifies astrophotography When mounted on the corresponding PENTAX digital SLR cameras body, the O-GPS2 also offers the advanced ASTROTRACER function,** which couples the unit with ...

Early Verdict The ST series Fujicas still don’t have much cachet as collectibles compared to the rival mechanical contemporaries from the likes of Nikon, Olympus, and Minolta. However, the ...

Why? Because it was the world’s first autofocus SLR camera body (The Polaroid SX-70 Sonar from 1977 is an autofocus single lens reflex instant camera, but that is a story for another day). Ironically, ...

Although instant-film cameras have been making a bit of a comeback, they still tend to be simple point-and-shoots, like the original Polaroids. The SL42 is different, though, in that it's an SLR ...

The Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D is a bruiser of a camera, weighing in at 20.8 ounces for the body only, six ounces less than the 7D. The 7D has a magnesium body accounting for the extra weight.

If you are a stickler for quality, 8×10 inch negatives are tough to beat. For reference that is almost 60 times larger than the 35mm film found in the SLR and Point & Shoot cameras.