Camera collectors are well aware that many of the most admired lenses of the mid 20th century are slightly radioactive, but if you’re like me and don’t remember high school science class enough to truly understand what radiation is and how it works, most of the time we just shrug…
For most camera collectors, there is no better source for your GAS needs than eBay. With over 200,000 active listings in both the Film Cameras and Vintage Cameras categories combined, it is difficult to think of a camera that doesn’t have at least one example for sale at any given…
In a recent episode of the Camerosity Podcast, we discussed buying cameras from Japanese auctions, specifically using proxies like Buyee or OneMap From Japan. This discussion seemed to trigger some serious GAS with some listeners rightfully questioning whether all of the hoops needed to buy something, the large number of…
Today, I received a special package in the mail. Back on October 22nd, I placed a preorder for the (then) recently announced LOMO MC-A, a premium compact 35mm camera. With excitement from other all new 35mm cameras such as the Rollei 35 AF and the Pentax 17 dying down, it…
Back in April 2016, I published a review for an advanced point and shoot camera called the Konica AiBORG. In that review, I was highly critical of the AiBORG, saying the ergonomics were terrible, the layout of controls was illogical, that it had a tiny and difficult to use viewfinder,…
With my recent review of the underwhelming Yashica digiFilm camera Y35, I started to wonder about the fate of some of the other crowdfunded cameras I remember reading about over the years. While the Yashica digiFilm camera Y35 was funded, released, and technically did everything that the creators promised it…
I was contacted by the manufacturer of this meter and was asked if I would be willing to give it a review in exchange for a free sample. While I did not pay for this product, I did not approach this review any different than if I had paid for…
This is a Jena Contax, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Carl Zeiss Jena, in Saalfeld, Germany under direction of the Soviet government after World War II. In the time leading up to Germany’s loss in the war, the Soviet Union had eyed the Zeiss-Ikon Contax for war reparations and…
10 years of camera reviews… I could just end this post here and I’ll have said all that I probably need to, but if there’s one thing that writing camera reviews for the past decade has taught me, is that I am not good at brevity. I’ve shared the origin…
When Oskar Barnack completed the first Leica prototype in the mid 1920s, his goal was to make a high quality compact camera that could make high quality images using double perforated 35mm film. At the time, the idea of a mass produced 35mm camera was one that nobody was thinking…
Earlier this year a group of film photography bloggers had the idea where each of us would write an article discussing our five favorite cameras, and sharing them all together and see what we came up with. Never one to miss out on the opportunity to discuss some of the…
Another year is over, which means another year end wrap up! The best news this year was that 2023 seemed to be the first year post COVID that felt like a normal year. 2020 and 2021 clearly weren’t, and in 2022 things did get a lot better, but there was…
