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Two versions of the Great Wall DF camera side by side

Great Wall DF4 / Export – The beauty of simplicity.

While the wizardry of modern cameras has reduced a once mighty concept to little more than a phone option variance, there’s something to be said about stepping away from all that digital perfection created by an unmeasurable amount of advancements and going back to something closer to the heart of how simple capturing a moment …

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Kodak-Anastigmat Ektar 5cm f/3.5

Kodak-Anastigmat Ektar 5cm f/3.5 – Retina Lens Mini Review

The proliferation of mirrorless cameras paved the way for a rapid increase in vintage lens usage on digital. An average camera nowadays can, without much hassle, support practically any common lens mount of yore, and many of the uncommon ones too. Back in the DSLR days that choice was pretty much limited to SLR lenses …

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Kodak Star, 60 and S30 – One City, One Film, Three 110 Cameras

I was given my first camera when I was seven. My grandfather’s Box Brownie. Ever since then, and I’m seventy now, I’ve collected Kodak cameras. The second one, which I bought myself, was an Instamatic 100 which took the 126 square format film cartridge. In the mid seventies when I was a hard-up student Kodak …

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