David S Young

Classic cameras How Asahi Optical built the camera that took on Hasselblad – and won over portrait photographers

Classic cameras Inside the 1966 secret project that changed professional photography forever

Classic cameras The iconic range of medium cameras that were so rugged they were taken on chronicle first lunar space missions

Classic cameras “Top Secret Project 130”: The forgotten 1970s scheme that completely changed camera history

Classic cameras The genius behind the Olympus Trip 35 and its astounding 40mm lens

Classic cameras This futuristic Leica camera weighed 8 pounds and took 3 minutes to snap one photo in 1996

Classic cameras This classic Alpa camera featured two completely different ways to focus

Classic cameras From Germany to Japan: The strange, but brilliant history of Plaubel Makina cameras

Classic cameras This forgotten pocket camera was way better than its film format allowed it to be

OPINION What 22 years of photographing wildfires in my Canadian home has taught me about taking incredible photos without endangering myself – or getting in the way of firefighters

solar eclipse This is how the Great American Solar Eclipse became the Great American Traffic Jam!

Classic cameras Why the Kodak Disc camera became one of photography's weirdest collector's items

Solar eclipse In the second of a three-part series, David S Young how things have changed over 47 years of chasing totality with his camera

Classic cameras This 1930s camera company survived World War II bombings – but couldn't survive peace

Solar eclipse In the first of a three-part series, David S Young recalls what it was like to photograph a total solar eclipse with film cameras and without the aid of the internet

Classic cameras This Porsche-designed camera changed how we think about autofocus forever – and is still a masterpiece if you can find one that works

Classic cameras This rare, modular, 2004 digital camera enabled you to completely hide its screen to make you feel you were still using film

Classic cameras The first commercial digital camera required a docking station and a computer just to boot up

Classic cameras The Fujifilm QuickSnap is now 40 years old, and the disposable camera boom isn’t stopping – but the history of the disposable camera is much older

Classic cameras The secret history of autofocus: How Leica invented it, but Minolta paid the $96 million price for it

Classic camera Collectors are now hunting for this notoriously flawed half-frame film camera

Classic camera Collectors are now hunting for this notoriously flawed half-frame film camera

Classic camera Before smartphones, the Kodak Instamatic was the ultimate point-and-shoot gadget that everyone owned

Classic camera Photographers refused to buy Nikon’s most advanced camera for over a decade, sticking with its predecessor

Classic camera Panoramic cameras have existed since the 1800s. Here's how we got from obscure German models to Jeff Bridges' favorite camera