Latest articles by David S Young
This American-made camera was known as The Brick – but still some two million photographers bought one!
Classic cameras The legendary American camera brand you probably forgot ever existed
The clever engineering trick that made Mamiya's cameras twice as good as its twin-lens reflex rivals
Classic cameras Mamiya failed at 35mm cameras, but then it built a legend with this twin-lens reflex range
This "utterly awful" analog camera recorded photos to floppy discs but somehow paved the way for modern digital photography
Classic cameras Sony called it the "Magnetic Video Camera" but it didn't actually record video!
The most expensive part of a 35mm film cassette is the part that photographers don't even think about
Classic cameras The simple 1934 invention that finally made photography convenient for everyone
A 3-year-old girl asked a simple question – and sparked a US$600 million camera revolution
Classic cameras Meet the original Steve Jobs: the man who invented the "impossible" decades before the iPhone
You could squeeze 72 shots from a 36-exposure roll or any number in between with this weird twin-format SLR, but one false move with the lever and your photos were ruined!
Classic cameras The "dual-format" trick that Konica abandoned because it was too confusing
This "Japanese Hasselblad" does things that the original Swedish camera simply can't
Classic cameras How a self-taught Japanese craftsman created the "Japanese Hasselblad" – which ended up being owned by Tamron
This is the secret reason that the US Navy ditched Nikon for this "American" camera
Classic cameras This 1960s US Navy SLR is built like a tank – and is still a masterpiece of engineering
Why Russia tried to clone the world's most famous camera (and got it hilariously wrong!)
Classic cameras Meet the Hasselbladski: Russia's strange, noisy attempt to steal Swedish perfection
Fujifilm’s new Instax Mini Evo Cinema takes inspiration from classic 1960s Fuji Single-8 cine cameras that were actually superior to Kodak Super 8
Classic camera The story behind the vintage tech that inspired Fujifilm's weird new Instax Mini Evo Cinema camera
The secret meaning behind the name Minolta (and how the camera brand evolved before disappearing forever)
Classic cameras This is why photographers fell in love with Minolta’s “fully-automatic” SR series of classic cameras
The hidden meaning behind the '3' in the legendary Leica M3 revealed
Classic cameras Classic Cameras #18 - Why many photographers still consider this 70-year-old Leica the "perfect" 35mm film camera
These mythical monster camera lenses are SO rare that they were only produced to special order
From 500-pound glass to $2 million price tags – inside the crazy world of extreme supertelephoto lenses
The man who went home for Christmas with 100 packs of Polaroid film – but came home with no photos
Christmas story He lost three month's salary on cameras and film – but, in a heartwarming tale, it turned out to be the best Christmas ever
Why the world’s simplest SLR camera became its greatest (and is still in demand 50 years later)
Classic cameras Classic Cameras #16 – the indestructible camera that refused to die
The Canon camera that let you see everything and split the photography world In half!
Classic cameras Classic Cameras #14 – the Canon Pellix and the story of the pellicle mirror
This compact 35mm camera changed film photography forever
Classic cameras The 1972 Olympus OM-1 remains the ultimate proof that great things really do come in small packages!
Kodak didn’t want you to see this and kept this revolutionary camera secret for 25 years
classic cameras Classic Cameras #13: The 24-year-old engineer who built the first digital camera that weighed eight pounds and ran on 16x AA batteries:
Everyone thinks Nikon invented the professional system camera – but this forgotten 1953 East German legend got there first
Classic Cameras This 1953 camera had detachable motordrives and 450-shot backs long before they were standard. Here's the short, brilliant life of the Praktina FX
This is the one camera I truly regret selling – the first TRUE system camera that rewrote the rulebook for pro photography
Classic Cameras Nearly 60 years after I bought it, I still regret selling this incredible camera
The 26-year-old who designed a camera that sold over 17 million units
Classic Cameras One of the most beautiful cameras ever made was designed by a 26-year-old wizard of camera craft
This Nikon compact camera proved to be an embarrassing disaster
Classic Cameras Classic Cameras #9 – the Nikkorex 35
Ihagee who? The long-forgotten camera company that brought us the first-ever 35mm SLR
Classic Cameras Classic Cameras #8 - The Kine Exakta
