Leica M Film Cameras Too Expensive? Here are Five Alternatives
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The Best Beach Cameras Just in Time for Summer – Updated
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Five Tips for Shooting Concerts on Film
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5 Polaroid Cameras Worth Owning, Shooting, and Collecting
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Five Masters of Light from Japan’s Shōwa Era
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5 Best Point and Shoot Film Cameras – Part 2
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Five Tips for Building a Full Film Camera Kit for Under $100
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The Ten Best Mechanical 35mm Film SLRs Ever Made
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Five More Affordable Rangefinder Film Cameras
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Minolta MC W Rokkor HG 35mm f/2.8 Classic Lens Review
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Seeking the Ghost of Edwin Land at Polaroid’s Former Headquarters
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Perkins Cove, Maine, on Polaroid Film
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These are the Best Medium Format Film Cameras for Beginners
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Adox 300 Review – a 35mm Film Camera with Interchangeable Film Magazines
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An Interview with the Creators of Not Your Grandma’s Camera Club
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Lomography Announces Big Price Cuts on Medium Format Film!
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The Minolta XE7 from a Nikon Loyalist’s Perspective
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Shooting a 50 Year Old Roll of Kodak Panatomic X 35mm Film
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The New Nifty Fifty— Er, Forty? Nikon Nikkor Z 40mm F/2 Lens Review
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Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo Camera Review
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Leica M8 Review – Like Shooting an Unending Roll of Kodachrome
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Leica Elmarit-TL 18mm F/2.8 Aspherical Lens Review
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Fujifilm Announces the Instax Mini Evo, a New Digital Instant Film Camera
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Fujifilm X100V Review — A Digital Camera with an Analog Heart
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The Best Travel Camera Today is a Cheap, Old Digicam
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In Japan, Digicams are the New Film – Guest Post by Johnny Yokoyama
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Agfa Vista Was More Than Just Another Color Film, and Its Death is Troubling – Opinion
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Re-evaluating the Cost of Film Cameras (And Offering Some Alternatives)
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I Called the Contax T2 Overrated, This Reader Disagreed
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The Milk Bath Portrait and How it Changed Everything
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