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Light Lens Lab announces collapsible 35/2 lens
Chinese lens maker Light Lens Lab is releasing a new collapsible 35/2 wide-angle lens for...
Reto brings the Ultra Wide & Slim back from the dead
Toy camera maker Reto has unveiled a remake of the famous Vivitar Ultra Wide &...
Confusion over new Fujicolor 200’s Kodak-like datasheet
The datasheet for the new Fujicolor 200 film in the US has strong similarities to...
Fujifilm rebrands Fujicolor C200 in the US
UPDATE: The film's datasheet bears a striking resemblance to that of a Kodak colour negative...
FED-6TTL: Electric dreams
By the 1990s, the Soviet Union’s FED family of cameras were looking decidedly long in...
Salyut-C review
By Jayden Guthrie
My first proper film camera was the Canon AE-1.
With it, I learned the...
For sale: A Soviet spy camera for shooting through walls
A rare Soviet camera intended to take covert surveillance photos through walls or ceilings is...
Lomo LC-A review
In spring 1982, Soviet camera designer Mikhail Grigorievich Kholomyansky unveiled a camera he had been...
Rare Salyut space camera up for sale in November
A Salyut medium format camera built for the cosmonauts to use outside Soviet space capsules...
WATCH: The FED-50, the Soviet answer to the Olympus Trip 35?
You might think that life was all toil and sweat in the Soviet Union, but...
Camera Reviews
Kosmo Foto’s camera reviews of 2021
Most of us have spent at least part of another year in lockdown, and here...
WATCH: Five 80s compact film cameras that don’t cost a bomb
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you’ll know that...
Salyut-C review
By Jayden Guthrie
My first proper film camera was the Canon AE-1.
With it, I learned the...
Lomo LC-A review
In spring 1982, Soviet camera designer Mikhail Grigorievich Kholomyansky unveiled a camera he had been...
Ricoh FF-9 review
Ricoh was one of the dark horses of the film photography world.
Never big enough to...
Catawiki marks Edwin Land’s birthday with Polaroid camera auction
Online auction site is marking the birthday of Polaroid inventor Edwin H Land’s birthday with...
Retopro launches new large case for 35mm and 120 film rolls
Retopro, the Hong Kong-based company which launched Kodak-branded metal film cases last year, has announced...
The curious case of the Contax shutter
By Oleg Khalyavin
Anyone who disassembled old Kiev or Contax has seen a complex structure of...
For sale: a Sports Illustrated photographer’s stereo SLR camera
A rare stereo SLR used for professional shoots by is being sold on the auction...
Amateur Photography in the USSR: Part Two
By Roman Yarovitcyn
I think the sharpest difference in Soviet photography compared to any other was...
