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Barcelona film processing labs Dubblelab and Amigou merge

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Film brand Dubblefilm's in-house processing lab Dubblelab is merging with another Barcelona-based lab, Amigou. The two...

Yul Brynner’s Leica MPs fetch more than €1m each at auction

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Two Leica MPs owned and used by Hollywood actor Yul Brynner sold for more than...

Rare Soviet ‘Space Leningrad’ camera for sale at Leitz Photographica Auction

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A rare modified "Space Leningrad" FAS-1 camera built for the Soviet Soyuz programme is one...
Vivitar ECO35 (Pic: Stephen Dowling)

Vivitar ECO35: The ‘disposable’ hero of photography

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During the latter half of the 1980s, the disposable camera went from a standing start...

Trailer released for short film on Kyiv’s camera-making past

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A short film which shows the making of a sculpture paying tribute to Kyiv’s camera-making...

Iura: The wood-and-paper Soviet Leica-like

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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

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A rare 1930s Soviet camera made mostly of paper and wood is going on sale...

Single Frame: Greenwich foreshore

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How do you return to a place again and again and take a different picture...

LOMO Almaz-103: The last Soviet professional SLR

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By Roman Yarovitsyn In the late 80s, this SLR was probably most discussed in the USSR,...

The memorial to Kyiv’s camera-making past

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By Ivan Zotikov This piece by enthusiast Ivan Zotikov reports on the plaque unveiled at the...

Camera Reviews

Olympus Pen EE3 review

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By George Griffin I have always been an Olympus fanboy. I got an OM-10 in 1980,...
Cosina CX-2 (pic: Stephen Dowling)

WATCH: The Cosina CX-2, a zone-focus classic

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Lomography's Patient Zero wasn't, as you may have thought, the infamous LOMO LC-A. The Leningrad camera-maker's...

WATCH: The Pentax ES II, the Space Age Spotmatic

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Fifty years ago, Pentax brought out the last camera in its  famous Spotmatic family. The last...

Cosina CX-2 review

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  Cosina was a camera company that never quite became a household name. Canon and Nikon slugged...

Shooting on ‘crap’ compacts (Part Four)

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I've been very busy buying film compacts for my online camera shop Cameraburo recently –...

Rare wood-and-paper Soviet camera selling at October auction

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A rare 1930s Soviet camera made mostly of paper and wood is going on sale...

Nikon F used to shoot Jimi Hendrix album covers up for auction

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The Nikon F camera used to take the cover photos for Jimi Hendrix's iconic 1960s...

Rare electric-motor Leica 250 Reporter up for auction this summer

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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?

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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

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By Roman Yarovitsyn Everyone who has dealt with Soviet cameras remembers the Zenit-E 35mm SLR. Outside...