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The forgotten failure that forced Canon to reinvent the SLR camera and change photography forever
By David S Young published
Classic cameras There's a little-known link between a 1980s Canon 35mm SLR and the birth of the World Wide Web

The world's most iconic tiny film camera was almost never built
By David S Young published
Classic cameras The secret history of the Rollei 35: A masterpiece born in a basement

The lost history of Britain’s most innovative SLRs - and the camera that's rarer than a Stradivarius
By David S Young published
Classic cameras High quality, high cost – the sorry tale of why Britain’s best cameras couldn't survive the 1960s

This 7-pound beast was once the press photographer's favorite camera, before it landed a surprising role in Star Wars
By David S Young published
Classic cameras From Iwo Jima to Jedi: The surprising history of the Graflex Speed Graphic camera

How a trench warfare invention became Germany’s most iconic camera for a whole generation of professional photographers
By David S Young published
Classic cameras Why the Rolleiflex medium format film camera is still considered one of the finest camera lines ever made

The rise and fall of Yashica cameras: Why the Yashica FX-3 remains the ultimate budget alternative to the Pentax K1000 SLR
By David S Young published
Classic cameras The Zeiss connection: Why collectors still hunt for Yashica’s C/Y mount camera bodies

The curious tale of how Fujifilm Instax cameras survived a brutal patent war to become an instant success selling over 100 million cameras!
By David S Young published
Classic cameras Inside the 80-year rivalry that made the world's favorite instant camera brand possible

This American-made camera was known as The Brick – but still some two million photographers bought one!
By David S Young published
Classic cameras The legendary American camera brand you probably forgot ever existed
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