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Pentax to release ‘two film compact cameras in Spring 2024’
Pentax will release two compact film cameras in Spring 2024, according to comments made by...
Iura: The wood-and-paper Soviet Leica-like
The Soviet camera-making industry went into overdrive after World War II, buoyed with war spoils...
Rare wood-and-paper Soviet camera selling at October auction
A rare 1930s Soviet camera made mostly of paper and wood is going on sale...
PPP Cameras’ Pierro Pozella becomes latest repair expert on BBC’s ‘The Repair Shop’
Camera repairer Pierro Pozella, who runs the repair firm PPP Cameras, has been unveiled as...
Keks releases new KM-Q light meter the size of a sugarcube
Chinese light meter maker Keks has unveiled its smallest hot shoe light meter yet –...
Single Frame: Greenwich foreshore
How do you return to a place again and again and take a different picture...
LOMO Almaz-103: The last Soviet professional SLR
By Roman Yarovitsyn
In the late 80s, this SLR was probably most discussed in the USSR,...
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...
Camera Reviews
WATCH: The Pentax ES II, the Space Age Spotmatic
Fifty years ago, Pentax brought out the last camera in its famous Spotmatic family.
The last...
Cosina CX-2 review
Cosina was a camera company that never quite became a household name.
Canon and Nikon slugged...
Shooting on ‘crap’ compacts (Part Four)
I've been very busy buying film compacts for my online camera shop Cameraburo recently –...
Pentax ES II review
In 1960, at the Photokina trade fair in West Germany, Japanese camera manufacturer Pentax unveiled...
Shooting on ‘crap’ compacts (Part Three)
Part of the fun of buying random lots of cameras via auction is the almost...
Rare electric-motor Leica 250 Reporter up for auction this summer
A Leica 250 Reporter camera complete with an incredibly rare MOOEV electric motor is one...
Did Oskar Barnack build a 35mm camera before the Ur-Leica?
The Ur-Leica produced by Oskar Barnack is undoubtedly one of the most important cameras ever...
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...
