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Barcelona film processing labs Dubblelab and Amigou merge
Film brand Dubblefilm's in-house processing lab Dubblelab is merging with another Barcelona-based lab, Amigou.
The two...
Yul Brynner’s Leica MPs fetch more than €1m each at auction
Two Leica MPs owned and used by Hollywood actor Yul Brynner sold for more than...
Rare Soviet ‘Space Leningrad’ camera for sale at Leitz Photographica Auction
A rare modified "Space Leningrad" FAS-1 camera built for the Soviet Soyuz programme is one...
Vivitar ECO35: The ‘disposable’ hero of photography
During the latter half of the 1980s, the disposable camera went from a standing start...
Trailer released for short film on Kyiv’s camera-making past
A short film which shows the making of a sculpture paying tribute to Kyiv’s camera-making...
Iura: The wood-and-paper Soviet Leica-like
The Soviet camera-making industry went into overdrive after World War II, buoyed with war spoils...
Rare wood-and-paper Soviet camera selling at October auction
A rare 1930s Soviet camera made mostly of paper and wood is going on sale...
Single Frame: Greenwich foreshore
How do you return to a place again and again and take a different picture...
LOMO Almaz-103: The last Soviet professional SLR
By Roman Yarovitsyn
In the late 80s, this SLR was probably most discussed in the USSR,...
The memorial to Kyiv’s camera-making past
By Ivan Zotikov
This piece by enthusiast Ivan Zotikov reports on the plaque unveiled at the...
Camera Reviews
Olympus Pen EE3 review
By George Griffin
I have always been an Olympus fanboy. I got an OM-10 in 1980,...
WATCH: The Cosina CX-2, a zone-focus classic
Lomography's Patient Zero wasn't, as you may have thought, the infamous LOMO LC-A.
The Leningrad camera-maker's...
WATCH: The Pentax ES II, the Space Age Spotmatic
Fifty years ago, Pentax brought out the last camera in its famous Spotmatic family.
The last...
Cosina CX-2 review
Cosina was a camera company that never quite became a household name.
Canon and Nikon slugged...
Shooting on ‘crap’ compacts (Part Four)
I've been very busy buying film compacts for my online camera shop Cameraburo recently –...
Rare wood-and-paper Soviet camera selling at October auction
A rare 1930s Soviet camera made mostly of paper and wood is going on sale...
Nikon F used to shoot Jimi Hendrix album covers up for auction
The Nikon F camera used to take the cover photos for Jimi Hendrix's iconic 1960s...
Rare electric-motor Leica 250 Reporter up for auction this summer
A Leica 250 Reporter camera complete with an incredibly rare MOOEV electric motor is one...
Did Oskar Barnack build a 35mm camera before the Ur-Leica?
The Ur-Leica produced by Oskar Barnack is undoubtedly one of the most important cameras ever...
Zenit-E: Solving the enduring mysteries of the world’s most popular SLR
By Roman Yarovitsyn
Everyone who has dealt with Soviet cameras remembers the Zenit-E 35mm SLR. Outside...
