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A Soviet time capsule from the 1950s
By Andrey Khludeyev
It is a special feeling when you hold in your hand a camera produced 63 year ago and probably never used before. In...
Coronavirus: Which labs are still processing film?
A few short months ago, 2020 looked like it would be a bright year for film photography. Events like the first Analogue Spotlight at...
Watch a vintage camera-heavy clip from Johnny Depp’s ‘Minamata’
Last year, it was announced actor Johnny Deep would be playing renowned photojournalist W Eugene Smith in a biopic based on the photographer’s time...
Kosmopedia
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,...
Kosmopedia: Pentax MX
A cult classic from the decade of heavy metal.
In 1976, Pentax unveiled a pair of diminutive new SLRs to rival Olympus’s extremely popular OM...
Camera reviews
Kosmo Foto wants your reviews and stories
If you’d described the last week to me as I prepared to toast in the New Year three months ago, I’d have been worried...
Ricoh KR-10 review
By Aaron Gold
Since we’re celebrating the 101st year of Asahi Optical, the makers of Pentax cameras, I thought it would be fun to look...
Pentax 90WR review
By Lorraine Healy
For as long as I have been photographing, I have had a quiet project-on-the-side, unrelated to any others I may have undertaken....
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...
