November 17, 2025
Classic film camera: the OG Rollei B 35
If you fancy a small, palm-size film camera with classic styling, don’t mind buying from Germany and waiting around for delivery – and you happen…
November 10, 2025
Classic film camera: the giant Kiev 6C
This is not a camera for the faint of heart or weak of arm. With its standard lens and pentaprism metered head in place it…
November 3, 2025
Classic film cameras: the folding Voigtländer Vitessa
Voigtländer could often be relied upon to tackle traditional camera design in new ways. Most folding cameras of the 1950s involved dropping down a bed…
October 27, 2025
Classic film cameras: the clever Olympus OM-2N
In 1972, Olympus changed the face of 35mm single lens reflex (SLR) photography with the introduction of the OM-1 which, in the words of its…
October 25, 2025
Like a Leica – copies, replicas, and fakes of the World’s most famous camera
It’s a tribute to Leica that the brand influenced so many other manufacturers. When the first cameras were produced, Leitz failed to register patents in…
October 22, 2025
Here are 20 of the weirdest and most wonderful cameras ever made
Some collectable cameras are still usable. Some usable cameras are eminently collectable. But sometimes you come across a camera that for shooting purposes is impractical,…
October 18, 2025
How the World’s first Leica camera came to be (and changed photography forever)
Leipzig Spring Fair, March 1925: an annual trade exposition to showcase all that was great and good in the latest German technical achievements. The exhibits…
October 3, 2025
The great Mickey Mouse Camera Mystery you’ve never heard of
Camera collecting mysteries don’t come much more mysterious than the great Mickey Mouse Camera Mystery. It began in 1995 when an unusual Kodak Brownie Target…
October 10, 2024
140 years – A lifetime of landmark cameras
From glass plates to flexible film, from simple snapshot to complicated professional cameras, from single lens reflexes (SLRs) to twin lens reflexes (TLRs), from analogue…
