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Large Format Camera

3 May, 2024

A brief encounter with a (Zeiss) Ideal camera.

By Tony Warren

The ‘ideal’ camera in this case being the Zeiss Ideal, a 9×12 model from around 1930. An interesting camera, once known as a ‘hand and stand’, and one of those that survive...
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5 February, 2024

Intrepid 4×5 – One Year of Traveling – a Review, Thoughts, and Photos

By Sam Forrest

If you like to shoot film, then you understand that it isn’t every day that a camera maker comes to market with a line of new cameras, let alone large format view cameras....
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20 May, 2022

Lomography Lomograflok Review – By Josh Foster

By Josh Foster

The announcement of the Lomography Lomograflok some time ago was something that really grabbed my attention - being able to shoot Instax film with my 5x4 camera is just somethin...
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11 January, 2022

Chroma Snapshot mini-review – Fun with a 3D printed large format customized camera – By Oleg (Boris) Dyachenko

By Oleg Dyachenko

I love the look that the images shot with a large format camera give you. My old wooden Tachihara camera had lots of adjustments, leaky bellows and needed to be shot on a tripod...
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13 July, 2020

Cameradactyl OG – 5×4 Large Format Snapshot Camera Review

By Hamish Gill

The Cameradactyl OG is a camera I have been meaning to write about since, well, ages ago (sorry Ethan). It's also my first large format camera review, and indeed the first large...
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