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A wooden model camera.
This affordable retro camera remake is made entirely out of wood – and it's so accurate, even the lens twists off

By Alan Palazon Published

RETRO No, these 1:1 replica Pentax cameras don't take photos, but these wooden remakes still look fantastic

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Three screenshots from Instagram Reel showing Leica M6 getting engraved by hand
One-of-a-kind Leica camera ‘tattooed’ by talented Chinese artisan

By Mike Harris Published

News Leica cameras are works of art in their own right, but one M6 owner asked a Chinese artist to engrave her camera and turn it into a unique piece of photographic art

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Researchers found a 1970 camera trap originally set up to research the Loch Ness legend. This image depicts the camera before restoration, held by researcher Adrian Shine
This retro Kodak compact camera was dropped in a lake in an attempt to photograph the Loch Ness Monster. Now, the 1970s camera trap has been fully restored

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

KODAK A retro Kodak camera used in a camera trap for Loch Ness research has now been fully restored

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A Pentax 17 film camera held in a hand outside
Has Ricoh lost focus on film? Pentax film project disappears from homepage

By Sebastian Oakley Published

News Where did the Pentax Film Project go? Ricoh’s homepage raises questions

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The Kodak Printomatic+ digital instant print camera
This colorful new Kodak compact camera is a low-tech digicam with instant prints – and a US$80 / £80 price

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

COMPACT CAMERA The Kodak Printomatic+ is a screenless digital camera that prints out images on ZINK paper

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A photo taken with the Fujifilm Instax Mini Eco Cinema decade camera
The Instax Mini Evo Cinema decade camera is delightfully weird and the most fun that I've had with a retro compact camera in a long time. But, it's not without some serious flaws

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

OPINION Now officially available outside Japan, the Instax Mini Evo Cinema is delightfully strange, but not without its flaws

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The Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo Cinema is a Super-8-inspired instant film camera that shoots both video and photos
Fujifilm is gambling on strange retro compact cameras where megapixels don’t matter, and style is everything. The oddball Evo Cinema has just 5MP, but so does the best-selling Evo original

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

OPINION Fujifilm Japan has now shared a spec sheet on its strange, time-traveling Instax Mini Evo Cinema

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Three screenshots showing Kodak Vest Pocket Autographic
Long before the Apple Pencil, this wartime Kodak compact camera came with a stylus, here’s why…

By Mike Harris Published

News The Kodak Vest Pocket Autographic was a line of compact film cameras that came with a built-in stylus for manually adding ‘metadata’ to rolls of film

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The Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo Cinema is a Super-8-inspired instant film camera that shoots both video and photos
The newest Fujifilm compact camera “time-travels” with an Eras Dial and a design inspired by 1960s 8mm cine cameras. But, there’s a catch

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

NEWS The Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo Cinema has a dial to replicate looks from different decades, but it's only been announced in Japan

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Pentax Spotmatic II on an old camera manual
I've been going through my old negs and I've learned something surprising about how digital cameras have changed my photography

By Rod Lawton Published

Opinion Digital imaging has turned me into a pixel peeper. I’m not sure how it happened or why… or what I can do about it now

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