Latest Stories
The mystery of Wes Anderson’s ‘Swiss Mountain Camera’
The trailer for Wes Anderson's latest film 'Asteroid City' was released this week. Alongside its...
Is bulk loading the answer to rising film costs?
By George Griffin
With the cost of all things analogue rising steadily in price, one way...
Fujifilm Japan suspends ‘domestic supplies’ of colour 35mm and 120 films
Fujifilm Japan has suspended sales of all its remaining 35mm colour negative and 35mm/120 slide...
Pentax intends to make ‘manual winding’ compact film camera
Pentax's new film camera project, which was announced in December, will produce "a brand-new, manual...
Valoi announces funding drive for new easy35 film scanning attachment
Finnish analogue photography brand Valoi has launched a fundraising campaign for a new home-scanning attachment...
The fatal flaw in the Soviet Leica shutter
By Oleg Khalyavin
Russians love to improve other people's inventions. As soon as they find something...
Rare Soviet prototypes under the hammer at 41st Leitz Photographic Auction
A number of rare Soviet cameras, including some prototypes, are among those being sold at...
Zenit-E: Solving the enduring mysteries of the world’s most popular SLR
By Roman Yarovitsyn
Everyone who has dealt with Soviet cameras remembers the Zenit-E 35mm SLR. Outside...
A hidden secret of Soviet camera shutters
By Oleg Khalyavin
There is a lot of information on the Internet about old Soviet cameras....
WATCH: The Zenit-3M, the stylish 60s Soviet SLR
In the years following World War II, the giant optical and camera plant KMZ (Красногорский...
Camera Reviews
Goldammer Goldeck review
By Rainer Strzolka
Some cameras just fly at you. One for me is the Goldeck.
Among the...
Pentax PC35AF-M review
By Stephen Dowling
In the early 1980s, compact camera designers suddenly had a fresh set of...
A quick guide to the Leica R range
By Mark Kronquist
Thanks to my friend and esteemed Leica Historian James Lager for his superb...
Holga 120 review
By George Griffin
I've had my Holga for just over five years and for three of...
Shooting on ‘crap’ compacts (Part Two)
A drawer in the bottom of my camera wardrobe is becoming ever harder to get...
Leica Nasa replica goes to auction in October
A working replica of the Leica camera used on Nasa’s Skylab mission in the early...
For sale: A movie camera that went into space with cosmonaut Alexei Leonov
A cine camera which is thought to have flown in space with Soviet cosmonaut Alexei...
One-of-a-kind Leica 16 16mm prototype to sell at auction
A prototype for a 16mm miniature Leica camera designed in the late 1950s is selling...
The first picture taken on a Leica
In the legend that has been built up around Oskar Barnack’s famous photographic creation, one...
Netflix’s ‘Army of the Dead’ was shot with a classic 1960s rangefinder lens
Netflix’s zombie apocalypse hit ‘Army of the Dead’, directed by Zack Snyder, was shot using...
