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The Only Film Camera I Would Kill To Own

I can’t put this Hasselblad 500EL in my pocket. And I can’t use it to snap shots on a daily basis — it will cost a gazillion dollars on film and development. But I would love to have one at home. Just to look at it. It’s a work of art. And it was used in the Apollo program. You know. On the moon.

January 19, 2012
Cameras

This Gigantic Camera Takes Two-Story-Tall Photos

To celebrate the 200th birthday of the invention of the camera, photographer Dennis Manarchy built one of his own. It looks just like a classic film camera with a wooden frame, leatherette, and brass hardware but, oddly, I don’t remember cameras normally being 35-feet long.

July 29, 2011
Cameras

Polaroid Z340 Looks Like Love Child Of Polaroid One And Point-And-Shoot

Polaroid might’ve ditched the instant film business but it doesn’t mean they can’t make digital equivalents. The Polaroid Z340 looks like a great digital compromise: classic body, digicam innards like 14 megapixels, flip-up LCD, etc. and ink-free prints.

July 25, 2011
Cameras

Samsung’s Crazy Boxy Camera Was Created To ‘Look Into Future Technologies’

Unfortunately, Samsung’s lost camera prototypes that appeared on their website back in May were developed for “internal purposes” only, but one of their product managers has confirmed that the boxy model was a digital medium format camera.

July 22, 2011
Cameras

Lomography Paints The LC-A+ Red For Russia Day

Eleven months before the next Russia Day, Lomography’s wrapped the classic Ruski film-camera in red goats’ leather and painted fertility symbols on it. Why they did that, I’m not sure, but I do like the soviet badge on the back.

July 19, 2011
Cameras

Laser-Cut Camera Takes Film But Is Cutting-Edge In Other Ways

Considering this is a homemade camera knocked together with a few borrowed parts, it’s surprisingly high-tech, with the main selling point being that it was laser cut – and that you can make one yourself.

June 16, 2011
Cameras

Lomography LC-Wide Review: Don’t Call It A Toy Camera

Apply as many filters as you want in Instagram, but you’re not making art. For that you need 35mm film, updated with Lomography’s latest take on an old Soviet classic, the LC-Wide.

May 19, 2011
Cameras

Go Wide And Get Wet: Lomography’s LC-Wide Film Camera Shoots 103 Degrees

The advancing wave of retro-nostalgia is growing bigger, and Lomography appears to be the slick surfer perched atop that wave, with its cool range of film cameras. Their new golden surfboard is the LC-Wide, a 17mm format-changin’ film camera ride.

May 7, 2011
Cameras

Looking For A DSLR? Buy These Film Cameras Instead

Sure, the immediate impetus of Pop Photo’s list of 12 film cameras to buy is the creeping price of DSLRs in the wake of Japan’s giant mess, but really, now is the perfect time to get into film, the perfect time to make seriously artsy photos.

May 3, 2011
Cameras

Film Exposed To Booze Shows Bleary-Eyed Effects

I was only joking last week when I said I wanted to develop some film in vodka after seeing photos developed in lake water, but photographer Casey Holford beat me to the punch, by soaking his Kodak Ultramax roll of film into some rubbing alcohol for around 10 minutes before shooting on it.

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