Latest articles by David S Young
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
This Soviet 'sniper' camera looks more like a rifle than a photography tool and once sold for $63,000!
Classic cameras Classic Cameras #17 – Why the USSR built a 300mm telephoto camera on a wooden gun stock
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
This gorgeous Canon SLR camera turned out to be a complete disaster. Here's why it was discontinued after just five months
Classic Cameras The tragic tale of the 1959 Canon Canonflex
This Pentax camera arrived four years late and was missing the feature it was literally named after… yet it sold in the millions
Classic Cameras The Pentax Spotmatic was late to the camera party and missed a key feature – but was still wildly popular with 4 million bodies sold!
Meet the camera so revolutionary they had to name it 'T' for technology
Classic Cameras You may never have heard of Miranda, but it paved the way for Japan to become the dominant force in camera production
The flaw that nearly killed Leica's digital dream (and how Leica fixed It)
Classic Cameras In 2006, Leica made a groundbreaking digital camera – with one performance-breaking problem
This iconic 1970s camera broke all the rules, rewriting camera manufacturing forever – despite one shockingly fatal flaw
Classic Cameras Classic Cameras #3: the Canon AE-1
