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Amateur Photography in the USSR: Part Two
By Roman Yarovitcin
I think the sharpest difference in Soviet photography compared to any other was...
Thieves ram van into family-run London camera store
Thieves attacked one of London’s leading independent camera stores with a stolen van on Friday...
Pixl-latr launches accessory film mask
Pixl-latr has launched an accessory mask which the company says makes it easier to scan...
Fujifilm releases Instax Mini 40 camera and new ‘contact sheet’ film
Fujifilm has launched a new retro-styled Instax Mini camera, the Instax Mini 40.
The camera, which...
Capturing a disappearing generation of Indian trains on film
By Nandakumar Narasimhan
My name is Nanda (Instagram: grumpy_oldman_) and I work as a photographer in...
Rare wartime Soviet naval ‘fotosniper’ going to auction
A rare prototype Soviet “fotosniper” outfit built for the Soviet Navy during the siege of...
Amateur photography in the USSR: Part One
By Roman Yarovitcin
To understand, what exactly was photography in the USSR, you must know, that...
Konica Centuria Chrome 100 on a Zenit-E
Back in the day, camera makers sometimes made film. We might think of Kodak and...
Kiev-4 review
By Hubregt Visser
I acquired my 1978 Kiev-4 from an internet auction, guided by nothing but...
Life as a 1990s Russian newspaper photographer, shooting on a cheap Soviet camera
By Roman Yarovitcyn
My name is Roman Yarovitcyn, a photojournalist from Nizhny Novgorod in Russia. I’m...
Camera Reviews
Gevabox review
By Keith Walker
Digital photography is great. No, it really is. Fast autofocus, variable ISOs and...
KMZ Moskva-5 review
By Howard Sandler
The Moskva-5 is my first Soviet camera, but I have to admit that...
Mamiya 35D review
By Giacomo D'Agostini
A while ago I have realised that I am a “manual-only” kind of...
Lomography Sprocket Rocket review
By Jay SE1
I may be in the minority, but I don’t like to hear the...
Kosmo Foto’s camera reviews of 2020
2020 has been a year where a lot of people have had more time to...
Rare wartime Soviet naval ‘fotosniper’ going to auction
A rare prototype Soviet “fotosniper” outfit built for the Soviet Navy during the siege of...
Amateur photography in the USSR: Part One
By Roman Yarovitcin
To understand, what exactly was photography in the USSR, you must know, that...
Life as a 1990s Russian newspaper photographer, shooting on a cheap Soviet camera
By Roman Yarovitcyn
My name is Roman Yarovitcyn, a photojournalist from Nizhny Novgorod in Russia. I’m...
The US designer who helped create an innovative Soviet SLR
No-one kept the M42-mount alive longer than Russia’s Krasnogorskiy Mechanicheskiy Zavod.
The giant Soviet photographic powerhouse...
East Germany’s plans for a space-age autofocus SLR
For many budding photographers during the Cold War, a Praktica was their first SLR.
Prakticas –...
