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…
One of the greatest stories I’ve heard while collecting and researching old cameras is how one of the greatest cameras ever made was created. The story goes that in 1911, a Zeiss employee named Oskar Barnack was recruited by his friend and former colleague, Emil Mechau to work for a…
This is a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera called the Riwa. It is a one of a kind prototype that was likely produced sometime before 1945 in Klosterlichfeld, West Germany. It features an interchangeable 39mm screw mount with a 5cm f/2 Rodenstock Heligon lens and a focal plane shutter with…
The Kodak Ektra is one of the most interesting cameras of any I’ve ever written about on this site. In July 2019, I was able to get my hands on a working example and I wrote an in depth review of it sharing some of the only images shot with…
