News › Film Camera
"I absolutely love a pano," remarks photographer Thomas Heaton in the introduction to a recent video. "You know what I love more than a pano? A film pano," he continues. The video below is part love letter to panoramic film photography and part review of Noble Design's new 6x17 and 6x12 lightweight film cameras. The ND...
Do you want to buy a film camera? You have a lot of options from many different manufacturers and in a new video from The Slanted Lens, we get to see some of those options.
One of their featured options is the Hasselblad 500CM. The mechanical medium-format film camera costs between $1,000 to $1,500. It's not a fast...
Large format film photographer Ben Horne has published his third video from a recent fall trip to Zion. If you missed his first two videos from Zion, click here and here. Horne has travelled to Zion multiple times and enjoys revisiting scenes to see how he has grown as a photographer. He enjoys trying new scenes as well,...
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...
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...
Kodak Eastman and C+A Global have announced the Kodak Printomatic Camera, a brand-new instant-print camera. The "stylish point-and-shoot camera instantly prints high-quality, full color photos right from the camera body."
Kodak is positioning the Printomatic as an ideal companion for event planners, scrap bookers,...
If you are intrigued by Fujifilm's square format Instax film but would like a fully analog camera, unlike the SQ10 Hybrid from Fujifilm, then Lomography has a Kickstarter project you may want to back.
The Kickstarter campaign, which has already more than tripled its goal at the time of writing, is for the Lomo'Instant...
Have you ever had a great thrift store find, a deal so good or an item so rare you simply cannot believe it? Reddit user GreenteaBanana had one of those experiences recently when he found a Leica M2…for $5. Not only that, but the M2 came with an Elmar 50mm f/2.8 lens.
GreenteaBanana is a veteran thrift store shopper,...
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...
If you missed your chance to grab a new, sealed Fujifilm GF670 6x7 folding medium format film camera during its production run, you will have another chance soon. B&H has reportedly found an unspecified number of brand-new GF760 cameras in one of their warehouses.
The rangefinder camera accepts 120 and 220 roll film...
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...
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...
From 1964 through 1968, Leica produced its Leicaflex single lens reflex camera. In total, there were approximately 37,500 of these cameras produced, 9,500 of which were Mark II models. One of these Mark II models is reported to have been owned and used by the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The particular camera she...
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,...
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...
EEVblog takes us on a humorous journey through time as Dave Jones breaks down a Chinon Genesis II camera. Although the video is funny, it also provides a lot of insight into camera technology.
The Chinon Genesis series was a bridge camera available from 1988 until the early 1990s. The Genesis featured a built-in lens...
Canon fans, are you ready to party? The company is celebrating a milestone for its EOS-1 series of professional SLRs, and it's a pretty impressive one. The original EOS-1 film SLR hit the market all the way back in 1989, so the series has now been on sale for a quarter-century!
What's really impressive to us,...
Back at the CP+ tradeshow in Japan last February, Ricoh announced quite a range of new photo gear for its Pentax brand, but perhaps the most interesting for film photographers who haven't transitioned their old photos to digital was the Pentax Film Duplicator. Now, the company has provided a release date for this...
Lomography's Konstruktor camera, released last year, was an instantly popular toy SLR that you can build yourself in just a couple of hours from a kit. With just a $35 pricetag, it made an excellent toy camera for anyone willing to do a bit of assembly. Now Lomography has announced a new version, the Konstruktor Super...
In BuzzFeed user Henry Goldman's short video for children, “Film Photography Explained to Modern Kids”, the narrator says, “The way you shared a photo of someone back then was you put it in their hands and they looked at it.” This wonderful sentiment permeates the whole video, which is designed to teach modern kids...