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ORWO launches new website and teases black-and-white film
Film brand ORWO has launched a new website and teased the release of a new...
Kodak Alaris launches new single-use camera loaded with Tri-X
Kodak Alaris has launched a new single-use camera loaded with its classic Tri-X black-and-white film.
The...
Rare black Leica MP sells for €1.2m at auction
A black paint Leica MP rangefinder, one of only 141 built by Leitz in the...
Chroma Cameras announces compact 35mm pinhole camera
Chroma Cameras has unveiled its first 35mm camera – a 24x24 pinhole camera called the...
TTArtisan and Cosina release new Leica M-mount wide-angle lenses
Two new wide-angle lenses for Leica M-mount have been unveiled by Cosina and TTArtisan.
TTArtisan has...
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...
WATCH: The KMZ Start, the USSR’s pro-grade SLR
A year before the Nikon F appeared in 1959, another giant of film photography unveiled...
First roll: Adox HR-50
What was the first company to make photographic goods? If your first thought was Eastman...
Testing the PPP Cameras Lomo T-43 Leica M-mount conversion
Leica rangefinders come with an almost unrivalled reputation for quality, but that reputation comes with...
Kosmo Foto Agent Shadow on a Zenit-16
In all the promotional imagery for Kosmo Foto Agent Shadow, I’ve done my best to...
Camera Reviews
Ricoh FF-9 review
Ricoh was one of the dark horses of the film photography world.
Never big enough to...
Olympus iS-3000 review
By Bill Watts
Part of a range of nine different models produced starting in 1990 with...
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...
WATCH: The Olympus Trip 35, the first cult compact
In 1967, Olympus launched one of the most influential and defining cameras of the 20th...
WATCH: The KMZ Start, the USSR’s pro-grade SLR
A year before the Nikon F appeared in 1959, another giant of film photography unveiled...
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...
