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Fuji Panorama G617 Professional
This colossal 1990s film camera only gave you four shots per roll, but photographers still obsess over it

By David S Young Published

Classic cameras Before digital panoramas, this massive medium-format monster ruled the landscape

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Nikon Pronea S
Nikon’s weirdest and smallest-ever SLR camera was built for a doomed Kodak film format – but it foreshadowed photography's digital future

By David S Young Published

Classic cameras The rise and swift fall of APS film: A $1 billion lesson in bad timing

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Line drawing of Robot Royal camera
The secret history of Robot: the innovative 35mm rapid-fire camera of the 1930s became a bank surveillance tool

By David S Young Published

Classic cameras This clockwork camera took 4 photos a second in 1934 without using batteries

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Line drawing of Minox B spy camera
Long before Hollywood made this camera into a spy icon, this sub-minature photographic gadget was just a crazy idea that had nothing to do with espionage

By David S Young Published

Classic cameras How the world-famous Minox spy camera survived World War II and Soviet occupation

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Line drawing of Pentax 6x7 camera
This oversized 35mm camera changed medium format photography forever – and photographers are still obsessed with the Pentax 6x7 almost 60 years later

By David S Young Published

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

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A decade-long gamble turned Canon into Nikon’s biggest threat with a professional camera that was launched with a complete system of 180 accessories on Day One!

By David S Young Published

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

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Hasselblad 1000F camera on a dining room table
"I am the camera": How a Swedish birdwatcher built the ultimate photographic workhorse that got taken on a one-way trip to the Moon

By David S Young Published

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

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Contax RTS
How Porsche, Carl Zeiss and Yashica teamed up in secret to build the legendary Contax RTS camera after Pentax walked away

By David S Young Published

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

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Olympus Trip 35 camera
This budget vacation camera had a secret weapon – and it was so successful that over 5 million were sold!

By David S Young Published

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

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Line drawing of Leica S1 camera
30 years ago, this monster futuristic Leica camera shot digital photos at a resolution that was over 20 times better than its rivals – but there was a catch

By David S Young Published

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

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