As a professional archivist, understanding the context and provenance of archival material is hugely important. When I look at my camera collecting, I have applied a similar criteria to...
I follow a lot of amazing film photographers on Instagram and I’m always intrigued to see what cameras they are using. Recently I noticed that the talented Danielle Wrobleski...
Part one of the 'at home' series focused on the preservation of photographic negatives and briefly touched upon the topic of digitisation. In this post I would like to...
It is probably clear by now that I have quite a fondness for Japanese manufactured cameras. When I made the decision to add a rangefinder to my collection, I...
Keeping with the theme of Japanese manufacturers, I’ll be taking a look at one of the most popular 35mm cameras of all time, the Olympus Trip 35. First manufactured...
Like many manufacturers who saw the success of the Rolleiflex, the Japanese manufacturer Yashica, began to release their own Twin Lens Reflex cameras from 1953. These included the...