Jan 6, 2025 · Film photography and analogue adventures

1 day ago · Lomography has announced two new versions of the Lomo’Instant Square Glass camera.. The first is the denim-effect The Blues, and the second is the more muted Pemberley.Both cameras shoot the Fujifilm Instax Square film. Lomography says: “We’re excited to unveil two new Lomo’Instant Square Glass camera editions – Pemberleyand The Blues! These cameras combine their exciting design with ...

Dec 27, 2024 · Ricoh Imaging's Pentax 17 was one of the biggest releases of the year (Pic: Stephen Dowling) Film's fortunes have massively improved in the past decade or so, with new stocks appearing and old ones being brought back from retirement, and labs springing up to cater for a new generation of shooters. However, aside from the…

Jan 24, 2024 · Cameraburo. In 2023 we unveiled Cameraburo, Kosmo Foto’s online camera shop. Originally, I thought I might concentrate on Soviet and East German cameras (given that I shoot a lot with them and there’s a fair amount of content about these cameras on the blog.)

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Dec 31, 2024 · (All pics: Stephen Dowling) For the past couple of years I've closed the year with a post on three cameras I've used in the previous 12 months. These are sometimes cameras that are new to me, or sometimes cameras that have lurked in the back of the cupboard and have been rediscovered. (You can read…

Jan 4, 2025 · According to Analogue’s website, the camera has been in development for more than two years (All pics: Analogue) Months after the release of the Pentax 17 and the Rollei 35AF, a new 35mm compact camera has been unveiled which the makers say will launch later this year.. The proposed Analogue aF-1 is a 35mm compact camera featuring Lidar-based autofocus and a 35mm f/2.8 lens.

Jan 4, 2025 · 3. Minolta SR-T 101. The Minolta SR-T 101 commonly comes up in lists of beginner cameras, and yet people seem to forget one critical problem: the SR-T 101’s light meter uses a battery you can’t buy anymore. “Just shoot without batteries,” some say, but if you’re a beginning photographer, shooting without a light meter is a great way to waste money and frustrate yourself.

Dec 9, 2024 · The Elektronika FE-26 flash, originally built to accompany the LOMO LC-A compact (All pics: Roman Yarovitsyn) By Roman Yarovitsyn . My review of the Zenit-4 leaf shutter SLR for Kosmo Foto in late 2023 was not exhaustive, because the most important test needed to be done outside. Thirty-degree winter frosts seemed to me too …

Dec 10, 2023 · (All pics: Stephen Dowling) It’s easy to get confused when it comes to choosing a compact cameras – there’s just so many of them. Compacts of all stripes – from bare-bones basic to the smart and sophisticated – poured out the doors of camera factories during the last few decades of the 20 th Century. Some were pure point-and-shoots with fixed apertures, shutter speeds and others were ...