Here are the numbers I collected for the Contax TVS: NOTE: My qualitative characterizations of camera performance below (that is, "reasonably fast," "about average," etc.) are meant to be relative ...

Sharpness is about average for a five megapixel camera: Not as good as the best I've seen, but still pretty good. Details are also fairly sharp, and image noise the shadows is moderately low.

A camera that exposes photographic film to light in order to take a picture. Used since the late 1800s, the film is a chemical emulsion on a plastic substrate that is sensitive to light.

Back in the late 1990s as the digital revolution overtook photography there were abortive attempts to develop a digital upgrade for 35mm film cameras. Imagine a film cartridge with attached sensor ...

Sony Cameras, Tokina 11-16mm f2.8, Zacuto Recoil Rig, Zeiss Contax 135mm f2.8, Zeiss Contax 300mm f4, Zeiss Contax 50mm f1.4, Zeiss Contax 85mm f1.4 Adam began making films as a stop motion ...

Although almost everyone has a digital camera in their pockets all the time, many photography enthusiasts are turning to film cameras to get into the art. Some of the reasons why film photography ...

Since January, we’ve reviewed five promising new film cameras, including the Pentax 17 – the company’s first analog model in decades. A point-and-shoot aimed squarely at Gen Z photographers ...

In a parallel AF system to the Contax AX, the N1 does use autofocus lenses, it also uses autofocus lenses from the medium-format 645AF. Anyone running both 35mm and medium-format systems will tell ...

If you wanted an expensive film camera when you were a kid, you are in luck. Used film SLRs are super cheap now that everyone wants digital cameras. Of course, in reality, you want a digital ...

Photography is as accessible a hobby as it has ever been. With the rise of smartphones, nearly everyone has a decent-quality camera and with a little practice (and keeping in mind some key ...