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Polaroid Go announced: World’s smallest analog instant camera

 
 

Polaroid has announced the world's smallest analog instant camera, the Polaroid Go. It's a redesigned camera that uses classic Polaroid film.

The Polaroid Go is 4.1" long, 3.3" wide and 2.4" tall. The camera was designed as a 'wearable creative companion,' complete with a miniature version of Polaroid's classic square...

Fashionable film: Stylish Elbaflex Nikon-mount 35mm analog SLR camera hits Kickstarter

 
 

If you have any old Nikon-mount film lenses you'd like to get more use out of, a new Kickstarter campaign from Ihagee may well be of interest. The German and Ukrainian camera specialists have created a new 35mm Nikon-mount analog camera, the Elbaflex.

We've said it before and we'll say it again, film isn't dead. Not...

A blast from the past: Polaroid relaunches its instant camera business with the new OneStep 2

 
 

Polaroid is back with a vengeance. The reemergence of the instant camera is an interesting one spearheaded by Fujifilm and their Instax cameras, but you can trace its origins back to the 70s when Polaroid released the foldable SX70 and then a few years later, the simpler OneStep camera. The simple camera had a fixed...

Analog photographers feeling jolly: Vintage-style camera built out of cardboard and recycled paper

 
 

A camera “as dangerous to the environment as a banana peel.” That’s how a Ukrainian startup refers to its new Jollylook camera. Jollylook is a vintage-style folding camera which uses Fuji Instax Mini instant film and is made of recycled paper and cardboard.

When folded down, the camera is 3.35 x 5 x 1.89 inches (85 x...

Still going strong in Milan: Italian technician has been repairing analog cameras for nearly 60 years

 
 

Gian Luigi Carminati has spent the vast majority of his 76 years repairing cameras in a small Milan workshop. His incredible technical skills are on display in the video below, directed by David Drills.

Over the course of Carminati’s career, he has seen photography change dramatically. When he started, he says that...

A stylish, easy-to-use Instax camera: Lomography Lomo’Instant Automat camera hits Kickstarter

 
 

Lomography has a rich history of creating stylish, analog cameras. They have successfully capitalized on a market and continued to create new, often aesthetically distinct, products. Their latest product, which is on Kickstarter now, is no different. The Lomo'Instant Automat is being billed as "the ultimate instant...

Analogue only: West Yorkshire Cameras keeping film alive in England

 
 

With a seemingly steady stream of news about more and more companies ceasing production of different films, it might surprise you to hear that there's a store in England that is not only holding onto film, but eschewing digital altogether.

West Yorkshire Cameras is located in Leeds Corn Exchange and they buy, sell,...

A modern take on vintage cameras: Dora Goodman makes beautifully crafted custom film cameras

 
 

Older film cameras might lack the technical wizardry of their modern equivalents, but their attractive styling and ergonomics still exude charm all these decades later, something modern retro-styled gear like the Nikon Df or Fuji X-T1 attempts to replicate. But that's not to say that the vintage gear can't itself be...