Latest articles by David S Young
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
