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Central Camera owner vows to rebuild store after it is looted...
The owner of Chicago’s 121-year-old Central Camera has vowed to rebuild the shop after it was badly damaged during riots and looting on Saturday...
Photographer finds stash of hundreds of rolls of cult Agfa film
Film photographers often form an attachment to a certain emulsion – the film that does for them something the others can’t.
For some, the dream...
Hunting dragons with the KMZ Fotosnaiper
By Iain Compton
It’s not easy to practice photography in these days of social distancing and mandatory isolation. Here in Bangkok, the rules are very...
Kosmopedia
Kosmopedia: Exakta RTL 1000
Exactly an Exakta, but practically a Praktica.
For a camera marque behind the evil Iron Curtain, Exakta did pretty well in the West.
The Exakta brand...
Kosmopedia: Diana
A plastic novelty turned photographic icon.
In 1958, a plastics factory in Hong Kong unveiled a new camera design.
This was, some argue, the golden age...
Kosmopedia: Leica Standard
The Leica of the 21st Century doesn’t really do budget cameras. The cameras they make at their base in Wetzlar, Germany are precision items,...
Camera reviews
Canon Canonet QL 17 review
By Andrew Smith
The Canon Canonet QL 17 is a fixed lens range finder film camera from decades past. I that interests you, then keep...
Nikon F100 review
Up until the 1990s, SLR photography was all about professionals vs the amateurs.
Professional photographers got robust, shoot-anywhere cameras that could handle pretty much anything...
KMZ FT-2 review
By Žiga Četrtič
There are many ways to be peculiar. Seems like the Soviet KMZ FT-2 camera went through the peculiarity list pretty thoroughly and...
52 Photo Tips
52 Photo Tips #26: Don’t overlook toy cameras
This is the latest in a series in collaboration with Film's Not Dead.
They were the cameras built for curious fingers and enthusiastic, is...
52 Photo Tips #25: f/8 and be there
This is the latest in a series in collaboration with Film's Not Dead
There's a lot more to the photojournalist's maxim "f8 and be there"...
52 Photo Tips #24: Find a favourite film
This is the 24th post in a series in collaboration with Film's Not Dead.
When you first start shooting film, the choices can be a...
