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Minuta Stereo pinhole camera launches on Kickstarter
A new pinhole stereo camera and viewer has been launched on Kickstarter.
The Minuta Stereo is...
Adox discontinues Silvermax film
Film manufacturer Adox is discontinuing its Silvermax high-contrast black-and-white film.
In an Instagram post on Tuesday...
Life as a 1990s Russian newspaper photographer, shooting on a cheap Soviet camera
By Roman Yarovitcyn
My name is Roman Yarovitcyn, a photojournalist from Nizhny Novgorod in Russia. I’m...
Reveni Labs adds extra features to spot meter
Reveni Labs have added tweaks to the spot meter currently being funded via Kickstarter thanks...
The US designer who helped create an innovative Soviet SLR
No-one kept the M42-mount alive longer than Russia’s Krasnogorskiy Mechanicheskiy Zavod.
The giant Soviet photographic powerhouse...
KMZ Moskva-5 review
By Howard Sandler
The Moskva-5 is my first Soviet camera, but I have to admit that...
The man who can bring almost any Soviet camera back to life
If you find yourself with a rare or much-loved Soviet camera that suddenly stops working,...
Rare KGB spy camera collection sells at auction next month
An array of Soviet spy cameras – including ones hidden in everyday objects such as...
Jay Javier: The Philippines’ ‘godfather of Soviet cameras’
When I first got into Soviet cameras in the early 2000s, the amount of information...
Soviet-Chinese camera collaboration: Before the split
By Vladimir Zverev
This is the third of a three-part series by Russian photo historian Vladimir...
Camera Reviews
KMZ Moskva-5 review
By Howard Sandler
The Moskva-5 is my first Soviet camera, but I have to admit that...
Mamiya 35D review
By Giacomo D'Agostini
A while ago I have realised that I am a “manual-only” kind of...
Lomography Sprocket Rocket review
By Jay SE1
I may be in the minority, but I don’t like to hear the...
Kosmo Foto’s camera reviews of 2020
2020 has been a year where a lot of people have had more time to...
Pentax ME Super review
By Aaron Gold
“I just want you to live up to the image of you I...
East Germany’s plans for a space-age autofocus SLR
For many budding photographers during the Cold War, a Praktica was their first SLR.
Prakticas –...
The little film SLR released a decade too early
Sometimes good ideas come at just the right time. Sometimes they come a little too...
Rare KGB spy camera collection sells at auction next month
An array of Soviet spy cameras – including ones hidden in everyday objects such as...
Soviet-Chinese camera collaboration: Before the split
By Vladimir Zverev
This is the third of a three-part series by Russian photo historian Vladimir...
Soviet-Chinese camera collaboration: The birth of a giant
By Vladimir Zverev
I talked with old specialists from the Soviet factories Lomo (Lazar Zalmanov, St...
