It might surprise many people who still have a fondness for film that the number one best selling film today is Fuji’s Instax instant film. A small rectangular instant film, not unlike Polaroid’s classic film, Instax cameras are hot items for teenagers and millennials for the “MAGIC” of seeing a…
Following up on my post earlier this week for the Yashica Samurai X3.0 35mm half frame camera, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at an article from the April/May 1969 issue of Camera 35 magazine that explores the myth of half frame economy. Excluding half frame…
This is a Yashica Samurai x3.0, a half frame 35mm SLR made by Kyocera of Japan starting in 1988. The Samurai has a unique feature set, being one of the only vertically traveling half frame 35mm SLRs. It was also one of the first of a new genre of “bridge…
This week’s featured post is a review for the Coronet REX Flash by Alan Duncan at Canny Cameras. I love reviews like this of little known and basic cameras as they are often overlooked on many camera review sites and blogs. I’ve always made it a point here on my…
Depending on who you are, eBay is either the best thing since sliced bread, or it’s the Devil…for many camera collectors it can be a bit of both. eBay has been around since 1995 and since then has become the defining source for online bargain shopping. You can buy everything…
This is a Minolta Maxxum 7000, a 35mm SLR made by Minolta Camera Corp in Japan between the years 1985 and 1988. This version of the camera was sold for export in North America, and when sold in Europe and Japan was known as the 7000 AF and α-7000, respectively. …
The site move to Bluehost occupied a bit of my time (although not nearly as much as I had thought), but I considered skipping a Recommended Reading post for this week, but I am glad I didn’t as there was a good selection of worthwhile posts this week to talk…
When digital cameras first started to gain momentum in the early 21st century, they came with many conveniences over film, one of which was eliminating the recurring cost of buying film and having it developed. With a digital camera, once you pay for the camera, every photo you ever take…
Well that was fast! Not even 24 hours after I began, I have officially moved everything over to Bluehost, this site’s new home for at least the next 5 years. If you’re reading this post, then you’re already here and hopefully you have already noticed significant speed improvements on the…
After nearly 7 years running mikeeckman.com on a home built Windows 2008 server that sits in my basement (it was originally in a closet), the time has come to move to a new host. With the support of your kind donations and revenue generated through Google Adsense, the site has…
This is an Ihagee Auto-Ultrix type 2850, an auto-erecting folding camera made by Ihagee Kamerawerk, Steenbergen & Co. Dresden between the years 1932 and 1939. The Auto-Ultrix family had many variants, but the type 2850 produced eight 4cm x 6.5cm images on 127 format roll film. This particular example was…
Another historical lens article by Cheyenne Morrison, and another post of the week. I gotta hand it to James Tocchio, owner of Casual Photophile for convincing Cheyenne to write these highly detailed and fascinating historical lens articles for him as these things are right up my alley. Cheyenne goes back…
