I Understand Why the Yashica Samurai Failed
It’s 1987. Kyocera designers ask one simple question. “Can we fit a camera inside a taco shell?” And the Yashica Samurai was born.
read moreIt’s 1987. Kyocera designers ask one simple question. “Can we fit a camera inside a taco shell?” And the Yashica Samurai was born.
read moreThe Yashica-mat was Yashica’s original premier twin lens reflex (TLR) camera from the 1950s. It was a great camera, and remains very interesting today.
read moreCraig offers some thoughts on photography as a document of life, as seen through the Yashica 35 MF 35mm film camera.
read moreThe Yashica T4 got trendy on the back of a super creepy fashion photographer. Instagram hashtaggers and aesthetic hunters did the rest. But is it any good?
read moreLet me be clear; I love the film camera community. I’ve got nothing but love for people who dedicate their time and effort to keeping film alive. But on occasion,…
read moreOpinion After months of teasing, the Yashica Kickstarter Campaign has finally landed. And what a massive (though not entirely unexpected) disappointment it is. The Hong Kong based firm that owns…
read moreThe long history of photography has always bent toward convenience. In hundreds of years of cameras, the world has gone from minutes-long exposures and staged Civil War battlefield scenes to…
read moreTwo years and four countries after he first shot it, Connor realizes that the Agfa Optima 1035 Sensor is his ideal everyday camera.
read moreAfter seven years of shooting classic cameras, we’ve compiled our list of the ten best mechanical SLRs (plus three honorable mentions).
read moreConnor rescues and reviews a Zeiss Ikon Nettar, a medium format folding camera that had been destined for the parts bin.
read moreThe Olympus AZ-4 and the Ricoh Mirai are not great cameras. But they’ve meant more to me than I ever thought a lump of plastic could.
read moreThe Contax N1 was the final professional-level 35mm film camera to ever bear the Contax name. Here’s our review.
read moreJeb reviews the Minolta Hi-Matic AF2, a 35mm point and shoot film camera from the dawn of the autofocus era.
read moreConnor reviews the oddball Samsung ECX-1, a Porsche-designed point and shoot 35mm film camera from the mid-1990s.
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