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Chroma Camera releases panoramic Six:17 medium format camera
UK camera maker Chroma Camera has unveiled the latest in its range of medium format...
Jollylook launches Kickstarter for new SQUARE Instax pinhole camera
Camera maker Jollylook has unveiled an Instax Square film pinhole camera DIY kit now funding...
Analogue Wonderland releases limited-edition Wonderpan 400 film
UK film retailer Analogue Wonderland has announced the release of a black-and-white film to mark...
Foma Bohemia announces new Ortho 400 120 film
Czech Republic film producer Foma Bohemia has announced a few orthochromatic medium-format black-and-white film which...
Pentax film compact camera designed to ‘make taking photos a joy’
Ricoh Imaging has released more details of its forthcoming Pentax compact film camera project in...
The memorial to Kyiv’s camera-making past
By Ivan Zotikov
This piece by enthusiast Ivan Zotikov reports on the plaque unveiled at the...
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....
Camera Reviews
Shooting on ‘crap’ compacts (Part Three)
Part of the fun of buying random lots of cameras via auction is the almost...
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...
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...
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...
