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Do you have issues with motion blur? There's really no indication as to whether shutter speed is high enough or not. I don't get how having amazing autofocus is going to help with that. Also, I saw another review on this camera that said it focuses through glass. I thought this was impossible. What a confusing camera.

Inexperience makes for extremely limited reviews. One or two rolls of film is not enough to make claims about the camera because with all new formats and camera types, it takes time to learn the new cameras capabilities. The 24 shots cartridge has some big advantages vs half-frame. With half frame once the film is loaded that is your only choice for 72 frames. Doesn't matter if you need a faster or slower film, or want to switch to another film type. 72 is a lot of photographs. The cartridge on the other hand means that you can hot swap between cartridges. You lose one frame when you do it, but you can swap 100 ISO to 400. You can swap between Turquoise, Purple, '92, Orca, etc., at will. love that. I remember 1972 and the introduction of 110. It was not to make it easier than 135. That already existed with 126 cartridges introduced in the 1960's. It was to reduce the size of instamatics to a pocketable size. 126 Instamatics had the same easy loading, but it made larger square shaped photographs. Customers preferred the 4:3 ratio of 110, and the cameras were nice and small. It was a big hit, but not because it was easier than 35mm film. Something people noticed early on, was that the form factor of the cameras made it much easier to get the horizon level in the photos. Another 110- advantage. Another advantage is that when developing your own film (highly recommended as it brings costs way down) the reels can be stacked in the developing can, and it is possible to develop several rolls at once. Zone focussing is one of the easiest manual focus methods. When I was young, in the 1950's and 60's, most cheap cameras zone focussed. We got used to it, and it is easy to guess distance. You quickly get good at it. It is not a real problem. War and hunger are real problems. Zone focussing is a doddle. But the giant advantage is simply how pocketable those cameras are. They have rounded edges, and slip in and out of all but the smallest pockets. That makes this camera easy to carry. Your phone can do more, but the fun cannot provide the fun factor. The excitement of looking at freshly developed photographs, including the surprises because you forgot about some of them. And nothing beats having a photo album. People love looking through photo albums. The biggest criticism is the strange lack of a tripod mount. A dumb decision by Lomography. However, you can use a rubber band to hold it on a tripod. You can rest it on a surface. And the slow low light nature of film opens lots of great light painting opportunities, so the bulb mode is a great creative tool despite the lack of tripod mount. I mount it by carrying rubber bands with me. The night and day controls the aperture (2.8 or 5.6). There are better 110 cameras out there. I love the Minolta SLR Zoom for the manual control it gives me. I also have the Pentax 110 Auto. It has fabulous tiny interchangeable lenses, and it is most people's favorite but it is to automatic for me. But old cameras often come with problems of age, and these brand new Lomomatic 110's are a brilliant little camera to have in 2025. I liked your photographs. You should try shooting 110 some more. Orca is great to try.

Your content is solid! i Hope you start to upload more videos soon :)

Do you remember when you ordered, and order number? I ordered immediately after getting the preorder notification, and have a really low order number, but still haven’t gotten it.

Super insightful review, Brian! Really like how you put this together 👌

I kind of wish they had gone all the way - fully digital. I don’t know that just adding autofocus justifies the major price increase over a solid used manual focus model (which I have).

I've had the same problems loading my 35AF. Here's what I do: Rather than insert the film canister and then extend it across to the takeup spool, I first insert the film leader into the takeup spool and fire off 2-3 shots. While doing this, I make sure the film is starting to wrap around the spool, using a finger if needed to hold it it. Once I'm satisfied that it's firmly in place, I lay the film over the back of the camera and insert the canister. I have had no problems with film loading using this method. BTW, I looked at the film takeup spool on my classic Rollei 35S, and it looks exactly the same at the 35AF, so I can't explain why Mint's camera has this problem.

Pretty much echoes my experience - quick question though about the take up spool issues which I’ve seen echoed. Does your model have a sprocket inside the spool itself? Mine is fairly hidden inside the leader slot and I really only noticed it when doing my first winds. It’s a shame this camera wasn’t just an auto-wind that ditched the Rollei knobs, you’d lose the homage but gain a great point-and-shoot. I sadly think it’s a miss at the price tag.

Just ordered the avant max as I'm hoping the double output from the mini max will work as a key light for weddings and live events. Love the design, portability, functions and features!

do you have any tips for loading the film to avoid unintentional double exposures? do you need to wind slowly or anything to make sure it’s winding properly?

May I say out loud how many speedlites you can buy for $900? Jokes aside. For this amount of money you are able to buy 2 studio lights with stands and some modifiers. But hey. If you received it for free, that's a fair price 😉

Just discovered your videos through Threads. Harlowe is great and I like your breakdown of the Avant Max. I've been using the Mini Max for most of my portrait shoots and I love it. I also agree that Kiran is amazing and I'm happy she has the role she has at Harlowe. They really care about their creators.

good vibes bro, hopen u enjoy ur photography journey all the time😄

I'm making a video about this camera too (in New York)😅 I love lomomatic 110! Sometimes the results can be a bit wasteful, while at other times they can be truly unique! Thank you for this video!! 🎞🎞 🎞

is this a wide angle lens?

I need 220.

Anyone remember the spy kids cameras from happy meals?

What a nifty little camera, I really like it's unique design ngl

I've been using this lens for a while. It is very delicate. The metallic body feels very solid. Shooting night scenes with a large aperture is really useful. My old kit lens has a very small aperture and it is very difficult to shoot at night. This lens is absolutely amazing for the price and quality.

I have a question ¿does the Nikon FE2 take photos in colour or just black and white?

It's still a good low light camera without that specific film? what's the next best film to get with it for the light? Or is the Fuji Classica comparable?

how does it compare to the fuji classica N?

Great review

Best review of these lights I’ve seen yet! Thank you so much!

Good. Thanks.

Nice review, the strange thing that the battery % is visible if you use Leica Focus app. Autofocus is great in AF-S and good in AF-C, too bad auto exposure and auto focus is limited to 5 shots per second. It would be helpful if it focused only on the eyes and not the body or you could choose.

Hi, and thanks for your video. I had a SL 601, first model... for two years, and the only time it fell on a wooden floor, the battery was stuck and couldn't take it out... Sent it to Wetzlar for an eventual repair... I bought it second hand two years ago for 2'100 USD... Wetzlar asked 2'890 for the repair... Even though I loved my Leica SL.. I had to refuse the repair, and they kept the camera.... I really hesitate to buy an SL2-S... but after my experience of "it's solidity", the camera is not the best resistant as said or pretended to be. One fall and lost the camera. :-((

Really nice vid man. Subbed! I'm seeing this camera all over youtube today cuz I just posted another sprocket hole vid. I think I'm sold though. Gotta get me one cuz doing sprocket hole photos in a yashica is kinda a struggle. Especially to do Horizontal shots. If you want a laugh, check out my youtube shorts where I slam some 35mm in my yashica. BTW that is a nice scanning setup mines so janky lol.

I’m so torn on this camera. I love the size and weight and operation. But the corners are so weak that sometimes I wish I was just shooting a (muskier and heavier) film SLR with a good 28mm or 24mm lens. It often feels like the only usable part of the image is the equivalent of a single 35mm frame. I know there are medium format cameras with better lenses, and there are means of adapting 35mm film into them. But the loading is always something of a kludge, while the sprocket rocket’s film winding is rather good. I sometimes think about getting a torn or broken folding camera, and hacking that lens onto it. If Lomo ever made, say, a Sproket Rocket Pro which used the lens from one of their nicer medium format cameras like the Lubitel 166+ or the LC-120, I think that would be a big winner. It’d no doubt bulk up the camera, and a 75mm lens would have a very different look, but the gains in IQ and control would be worthwhile.

I keep involuntarily moving the aperture ring along with the focus ring

Nice review although I don`t shoot video. You are correct about the focus. Pretty poor. I use mine for general stuff but shoot a lot of equestrian .It misses more than a modern camera should do .

Bro... this is incredible.

i have this lens. no complains. image quality is good and sharp. everything is good. but the focal length is not for me. too tight, and not enough depth that i need. But i would recommend anyone else if they want to have a 50mm equivalent as their starter.

I got this camera for Christmas it came out with the worst photos I’ve ever seen. How on earth do you get good shots with it?

I like the softer look in video

Thanks for the review. I have a 30 year old Linhof alum & metal german tripod a friend gave me. I reconditioned it with a fresh coat of paint, looks new BUT it's heavy to carry around in the great outdoors I just bought a canon 100-400 USM MK2 lens for my canon 5DMK4. based on your review I just ordered this tripod and the Oben GH-30 Gimbal Head, wish me luck with all the new toys Brian.. thanks again for your review

Thanks for the great review! Btw, I think the sensor on the EVF may be only on that particular camera. My SL2-S Reporter doesn’t get finicky at all. Btw, have you tried setting the focus throw angles? I haven’t seen anyone review on it. I think it helps with the “wired focus” problem. That was one of the features that made me interested in this camera, but I haven’t tried it myself.

SL3 coming real soon, waiting for them to at least be S5iix autofocus performance. Fingers crossed, I've only shot manual focus on sl2s for video or static focus.

Thank you for this review :)

Is this lens a prime lense ?

My name is Brian and I also own this camera. Great video.

you shot some photos with A7c right? have you tried it in full frame mode as well, or just cropped. I'd be curious to hear how it behaves while having it in FF mode as well. my friend has the 50 f0.95 and on FF it looks pretty dope. So yeah.

Hi and thanks for this video. You replaced the red dot with a black dot. I'm curious about your black dot. Can you tell me more about it? Could you tell me where can I find this kind of black dot? Thanks in advance

For all of you photogs out there, this is a VERY video-centric review.

14:35 one thing you didn’t touch on in this section is that you can actually change the manual focus settings to not be acceleration based. In fact, you can dial in how many degrees you want it to turn from close focus to infinity! So it’s really the best focus by wire system out there.

I couldn’t agree more with you Brian. The only thins is that the 24-70 is newer than the summicron I believe. If it wasn’t for the auto focus it would be a dream camera to work with for video. Cheers

Awesome vid, I just ordered one and am excited to try it.

great video! thanks for sharing!

If you're into high contrast black and white with crazy resolution, you should really give Ferrania p30 a go. It's a little harder to shoot but the images are staggeringly pretty.

Ektar is my fave C41 stock. Love Velvia 50 on 120, but any film is good if you enjoy the process.