To the above list, I would add a less known but wonderful camera: Agfa Optima 1035 Sensor. 1: Huge viewfinder. 2: An ingenious way to wind the film. 3: Sensational, ultra-sharp lens. 4: Snapshot with a time range of 16 seconds (!!!), to 1/1000 of a second and that's all fully automatic. 5: Small size and weight. 6: Great workmanship. 7: A special Agfa designed "soft" trigger system.

I just put my second film in my Olympus Trip 35, HP5+ my first one was XP2Super, I’m 81 and when I moved into sheltered housing I sold my darkroom gear to a photography student but I kept the developing tanks so I’m ready to develop, I use an Agfa Rodinax 35 for my films.

I have the Pen EE with the 3.5 lens, lovely little camera. It speaks for the build quality that these camera's still work today.

I just watched another video from one of my other subscribed KZfaq channels. I immediately searched for your latest video and noticed a major difference between your channel and several others: You focus on mostly affordable and reasonable camera options. Out of the 9 cameras this other channel just showcased, 8 of them were either Leica, Voightlander, or the Nikon SP…only one of them (the Nikon FG) was affordable for us average guys. And then I watched this video-all reasonable options for the average viewer. Reason #14 why you’re at the top of my list of favorite channels. Thanks Nigel!

This video is really bringing back good memories. The Kodak Retinette was my first proper camera. Cost me £20 second hand around 50 years ago.

Real nice review Nigel, many thanks!

The Trip is the business. Fantastic for travelling with. Superb lens, easy to use.

Hi Nigel, thanks a lot, very nice cameras in nice condition! Pieces of camera history. I, too enjoy shooting with vintage film cameras. Best wishes, Ralf

As always, great video, thanks!

Add in the Yashica 1, 2, 3, 5 and Minister, the Ricoh 35R rangefinder, the Minolta Hi-matic 7 and lots more. I started adding point and shoot/compact 35mm cameras to my collection about a year ago, I have come acrodd some real beauties for virtually no money. A great topic again, Nigel, film photography is having a resurgence, and any of these cameras will encourage more people to either go back to film or give it a try for the first time.

Thank you, I've got a Retina with a 2.8 lens, it's a lovely camera. I really enjoy your videos please keep up the good work. 👍

I've got fair few camera's now. A Pentax LX, Canon MC an Olympus XA. But my favourite is my Nikon l35af. Such a good lens. Autofocus is brilliant. And a fantastic flash as well as a nice big viewfinder. Images never disappoint and don't think there is an easier camera to shoot. I mean my LX is great but sometimes the simpler the better.

Great video. The Nikon really reminds me of the van on "The A Team". I guess im showing my age.

Hi Nigel, great review of point&shoots. So sad, to see your Konica C35 being broken (24:04 : aperture blades are opening irregulary and are sticky). I have the Olympus mju zoom which is a point-and-shoot-later camera, since it starts autofocussing _after_ the shutter button was pressed down. It does not shoot half formatted images, but it always shoots half portraits of only half childrens, half dogs or other moving objects. Everybody already left the scene when the shutter finally gets opened...

Nice cameras. I've got a Konica C35... It has e incredible sharp lens. I've purchased it for peanuts.. and It has really impressed me! It's possible focusing from portraits to landscape.

Great video as always. I don't develop my own film - if I were to give half frame a try, is it easy enough to find labs who will process and scan a roll of half frame? I guess labs who use an automated mini-lab type arrangement would most likely struggle with it.

Big fan of the channel and your work. Have you tried the Pen F? I know your an Olympus fan and I would enjoy hearing your thoughts on it.

Nice cameras. I'd really like to give one of those half frame cameras a try. I'll have to keep an eye out for one. While I've seen those cameras around over the years, I never knew that about them. Except for very first camera that I had as a boy, which was medium format, I've always shot with full frame 35mm. On my morning photo walks, I tend to shoot between 40-80 pictures so the increased shot size would be perfect for that.

I love your channel! I just bought and Olympus OM-1 with 50mm 1.4 from your recommendation. I’ve always wanted one anyway. Where do you buy your film?

I take issue with film being "hit and miss". Until the millennium, film had to fulfil the most exacting medical, astronomical, commercial and cinematic applications. The idea that film is a pot luck medium would have been unthinkable 20 years ago.

Very nice review, you're back on track here, away from these new chinese stuff. I don't have the Pen, but if you find a russian Chaika - half frame with Industar lens - it's got tons of charm, and is great fun to use, probably inexpensive too. Somewhere between the Trip35 and the Konica 35 is the Konica EE, great little 60's auto exposure camera. The Kodak retina is great fun to use, Zeiss Ikon Contina is an excellent alternative. I picked up a Nikon L35af this summer for £5, it has the same problem as the Olympus mju, good cameras, but I find them quit boring to use actually, I might as well shoot digital instead, and save the money for the film, they're simply not my cup of coffee. But that's part of what makes photography so interesting, all of the differences and aspects.

Great video again, watched so many of your videos. Just what is the size of your camera collection? I have got rid of so many cameras over the years and now I regret my actions.

The Olympus series of half frame cameras are beautiful little cameras worth seeking out if you can find somewhere to develop half frame.

Hi. Big fan. I just bought "as is" PEN EES-2 - Super clean and great condition everything works but red flag always comes up halfway preventing shutter release when on AUTO mode. Tried all ASA's, tried pointing it direct at light etc. I guess the selenium no longer works. Any tips on a quick fix? - The only work around I have is to shoot in flash mode (manual aperture) at the fixed 1/40 shutter speed.

Fab video again matey. Though I’d argue a canon dial is more space age 😉👍🏼

from all of those Nikon seems to be the best indeed (and it's quite pricey on eBay), good video btw.

Every time I see an Olympus Trip I immediately get the David Bailey adverts in my mind. Has there been any other ad campaigns as successful as that one?

My parents had a very similar camera to the Nikon L35 AF. It wasn't that exact one and I can't tell you what the difference was- but it was a damn fine camera and took some fantastic pictures.

What do you think about the Canonet? I have the first iteration, fast lens, range finder, what's not to like?

Great cameras!

Does the Only Trip need a battery? I wouldn't think so because the light sensor is selenium and a manual wind.

I really enjoyed this episode, thank you. Just out of curiosity... do you develop your films by yourself or rely on a specific laboratory?

As nice as the Olympus pen ee is, I prefer to shoot with my Agfa Optima-Parat half frame. Beautyful little camera, all chrome and metal. Gorgeous sharp lens and an excellent automatic exposure system. Very cheap to get in good condition as well

I had an Olympus trip 35 in the early seventies and it was nicknamed the neverfocus because the pictures were hohum. I still have the prints.

Even a fly like to have a lesson of photography with you!! 😀😀😀Grettings!!!!

I have a Retinette 1a with a sharp Schneider 45mm f3. 5 lens. It even has a self timer. I use a separate rangefinder on the top. My best point and shoot is an Olympus Af1. Very fast start up, weatherproof, auto focus, auto flash, self timer, with an incredibly sharp Olympus Zuiko 35mm f2. 8 lens. Any one can use it. Very fast start up. I paid £15 for mine plus a £5 battery which has lasted a long time.

Never owned a 1/2 frame camera. Got to say the negative strip looks perfectly exposed.

Retina iiic is one of my favorite cameras. It has a leaf shutter and you can replace the front element with a 35mm or a 135mm front element. It has a selenium light meter. Schneider 50mm f2.8 lens. Much easier to use than my Leica IIIc, Super quiet.

Great group of cameras. I'll add to this the Canon Canonet 28. It was the bottom end of the Canonet line - all auto exposure, slower f2.8 lens - but the same high quality optics of the rest of the line. I learned photography on the camera as a kid, and shot one all through the 80s. In an uncharacteristic fit of nostalgia, I purchased one last year. So fun and easy with a roll of XP2.

You can put a filter on the Olympus Trip 35,I know because I have one and I have a filter on it.

Hi, loved the video. I have a Kodak Retinette 1A, but the shutter doesn't work. Would you know if this is a common problem and one that might easily be fixed? Thank you.

I have 4 out of 5 of the cameras mentioned above and I missed out on the Nikon at my local Charity Shop for 6 euro because I had no batteries to test it, when I returned the camera was gone.

Awesome. Did you make a video on the Ricoh 500g ??

I still use and enjoy the Nikon L35 AF. My first was stollen, and 1 year ago I purchase a « new » one, 200€. You forgot to explain that this camera needs 2 batteries AA, you can find everywhere…

Kodak Retinette's ARE nicely built cameras, but frequently have non functional shutters. Primarily due to stuck shutter blades from sticky dried lubricants.

My favorite Minifujica

I noticed the round little bump on the back of the Retina. Is it there for the same reason the Russian copies had, to calibrate (somehow) the lens to the body? (and only that) BTW, I always notice your shirts and your jacket. The shirts look almost denim. Who makes this purple one?

Regarding selenium meters: as long as there is no lens-cap on them, they will be active (all the time). So best selenium metered cameras are the ones that come in their carry-cases or with a cap on so the seleniummeters have been most of the time in the dark (and thus in-active) Loved halfframe at the time, and whenever I would go out on a photography holiday with my Pentax slrs, I always carried a halfframe Olympus with me, loaded with slide film! Started with the little EE's but in the end wound up with the fabulous Pen EED with excellent F.Zuiko f1.7 32mm lens. Used that for my 'holiday snaps'. The slides out of this camera were excellent. Two other walk-around cameras I would like to 'promote' are the Olympus XA and XA4. The XA is a tiny 'capsule' camera with a f2.8 35mm lens, aperture priority AND a range-finder, all in a very compact body. The XA4 has the same 'capsule' body but comes with a f3.5 28mm lens that can (manually) focus down to 30 cm. Both super portable. Not sure how easy it will be to get appropriate batteries for these. BTW: being able to source appropriate batteries can be a problem for more/other older cameras; something to check before you buy!!

Olympus 35-RC is excellent as is the XA.

In Ex-USSR Zenit cameras are hard to beat. The quality can by iffy but it is fairly easy to find a working specimen. Cameras with lens in good condition can cost ~20 bucks. Body without lens can be found nearly for free for mass-produced models (like Zenit E or Zenit ET). For Zenit E it is around 2 bucks per body (which usually even functions!), which is due to extensive "poaching". By poaching I mean mass-buying of cameras and selling the lenses to swirling bokeh fans (who use Helios lenses with modern cameras). The demand for bodies is much lower. So those are usually sold in-bulk for almost nothing. Spare parts are effectively free (if you bother to repairing rather than just switch the body for a working one). Of soviet film cameras I myself prefer Zorki/FED due to my eyesight issues. Rangefinder makes these cameras much easier to use. And Zenits are kind of notorious for their dark and small SLR viewfinder. Zorki cameras are not as common but just as inexpensive and are not hard to find in working order too.

L35af were 200 canadian dollars new.. I must of sold over 500 of em..

Is it made in Germany? The Retina was.

You can find some SLR film cameras cheaper than some of these if you look for chinon cameras

Konica looks pretty dead :( leaf shutter seems slow.

There's not a better compact camera than the Rollei 35 I have one with the tessar 40mm 3.5 well built with a phenomenal Carl Zeiss lens in one of the smallest possible full frame cameras

Sorry ! (Mistake in my previous comment). Pls read as ...... Wish Minolta CLE rangefinder camera review. Thanks.

I really really don't need another camera. I'm really happy with my OM system cameras, but...

I can't say I'd recommend cameras which need a built in Selenium metering cell because of their very high failure rate and fragile nature. If I recall correctly; these types usually have no manual override where you could use an external meter. While I loved the half frame cameras back when; I would imagine it is very hard to find someone to print them these days; you'd likely have to digitize the images? Ideally I agree they can make lovely photos but surely there are some easier more reliable alternatives? I'd give starting photographers a warning that these can be flaky - literally.

Didn't know Steve Buscemi was into film photography

Mountain mode!

No Olympus xa??????

I wonder if someone is doing this kind of review with movie cameras.

None of these are compact in comparison to the Olympus Stylus Epic.

Don't shoot film until you have tried a Rollei 35s. Why? Try it!

Don’t shoot film until price come down ja, regards!

Glad to have found the Albus Dumbledore of Film Cameras 🥹