Cameras
Point and Shoot Film Cameras: Cheap Fun or Collector Trap
A humble point and shoot film camera is cheap fun, while hyped titanium compacts like the Contax T2 reward patience over impulse.
Cameras
Film camera coverage for people buying, fixing or living with one: shutter accuracy, meter drift, light seals, viewfinder brightness and realistic service costs. Ranges across 35mm compacts, rangefinders, SLRs and medium format bodies. Written to help a shooter pick a camera that survives regular use.
Film camera coverage for people buying, fixing or living with one: shutter accuracy, meter drift, light seals, viewfinder brightness and realistic service costs. Ranges across 35mm compacts, rangefinders, SLRs and medium format bodies. Written to help a shooter pick a camera that survives regular use.
Cameras
Twin Lens Reflex Cameras: Shooting Waist-Level Like a Pro
A twin lens reflex camera pairs two matched lenses with a waist-level finder, a design that has run since the Rolleiflex of 1929.
Cameras
Film Street Photography — Street Photography with Film: Rules, Ethics, and Courage
Film street photography is legal across most public places, a genre reaching back to Daguerre in 1838, where the real work is conduct: knowing the law, honoring strangers, and keeping the nerve to press once.
Cameras
Cameras for Sale: How to Buy a Used Film Camera Without Getting Burned
A patient inspection checklist for light seals, shutters, meters, and price — so the bargain stays a bargain.
Cameras
Cameras for Beginners: 10 Film Cameras Beginners Should Consider Before Overspending
The best first film camera is usually the cheap, boring, dependable one — here is how to pick it and where the money should go instead.
Cameras
Vintage Camera Collecting — Spotting Fake Vintage Cameras: A Buyer's Guide
Replicas, franken-cameras and mislabeled classics are everywhere at markets and online. Here is how to read the tell-tale signs before money changes hands.
Cameras
Cameras for Photography — How to Choose Your First Film Camera: A Beginner's Guide
Match the body to how you actually shoot, set a budget that leaves room for film, and buy the simplest camera that will do the job.
Cameras
The Pentax 17 Is Proof Zone Focusing Never Went Out of Style
Ricoh's half-frame comeback camera skips autofocus by design, doubles your roll, and still costs the same $499.95 it launched at two years ago.
Cameras
First Medium Format Camera: Start Here
Your first medium format camera should match how you shoot, not just your budget, because format choice decides weight, cost per frame and pace.
Cameras
Contax T2 Guide: Point-and-Shoot Gold
The Contax T2 pairs a Zeiss 38mm lens with true pocket size, and two decades of hype have done interesting things to its price.