This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. Leica was born in Wetzlar, Germany. They built the first 35mm camera. Revenue in 24/25 sits at 596 million Euros, driven primarily by the photo and mobile segments. Six product lines: cameras, sports optics, lifestyle products, watches, projectors, and eyewear. The M System The […]
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October 1981.The manual-focus SLR market was mature, crowded, and tightening. Feature differentiation was incremental, competition was fierce, and margins were compressing. Minolta needed a camera that could defend its position in the mid-tier consumer segment without overextending into professional territory. Enter the Minolta XG-M, marketed in Japan as the X-70 and arriving there in 1982,
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This time around I would like to talk about a camera that has been my gateway into photography again. Introduced in April 1981, a 35mm SLR that packed all the tech available at the time, and then some. It’s predecessor, the Canon AE-1. Of course you read it on the title, I am talking about
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Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you have been following this space, I have been shooting film for a while now. I am certainly no Influencer Expert, I just love the thought process that film makes me go through. Recently I published a post where I go into the why I started shooting film
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