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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

The clever engineering trick that made Mamiya's cameras twice as good as its twin-lens reflex rivals
By David S Young published
Classic cameras Mamiya failed at 35mm cameras, but then it built a legend with this twin-lens reflex range

This "utterly awful" analog camera recorded photos to floppy discs but somehow paved the way for modern digital photography
By David S Young published
Classic cameras Sony called it the "Magnetic Video Camera" but it didn't actually record video!

The most expensive part of a 35mm film cassette is the part that photographers don't even think about
By David S Young published
Classic cameras The simple 1934 invention that finally made photography convenient for everyone

A 3-year-old girl asked a simple question – and sparked a US$600 million camera revolution
By David S Young published
Classic cameras Meet the original Steve Jobs: the man who invented the "impossible" decades before the iPhone
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