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Guest Blog by Marc Paquette As a little kid I used to knock myself out with my father's camera. It was a Kodak Retinette, of which I can't remember the model. I had no idea how to use it but I was fascinated by its shiny metal, complicated dials, and mysterious numerical markings. He bought it new, before he married my mother. By adolescence, I forgot about dusty, old cameras and sought ... [Read More]

New film for vintage Polaroid cameras delivers a never-before-seen color saturation, a completely new level of detail and sharpness and overall stunning image quality.   For Polaroid SX-70 cameras - Impossible Project PX-70 Color Pro film! Visit the PX 70 Film page HERE For Polaroid 600 film visit the Impossible PX 680 film page HERE For Polaroid Spectra film, visit the ... [Read More]

Guest Blog by Marc Paquette If you've never used a medium-format twin lens reflex (TLR), you should. Yes, they're bulky and conspicuous. But medium-format film has about 4 times more detail than 35mm. And TLR viewfinders are fantastic and delightful. The Mamiyaflex Automat BII, the Automat B's successor, is from the golden age of "flex" TLRs; Rolleiflex, Yashicaflex, Argoflex, Ricohflex, ... [Read More]

A previous FPP blog featured the celebrated Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim, a camera with near cult status today. The “UWS” is no longer made, though, so unless you can find a used one your only recourse is to pick up one of the new UWS clones, such as those made by SuperHeadz. Should you? SuperHeadz christens their colorful cameras with equally colorful names. I have the “Blue Ribbon.” You ... [Read More]

Guest Blog by Daniel VanDurmen Ever since the mid eighties, when I took my first job, sacking groceries, to save enough money to buy my first real camera, the Minolta X-700, I've been a Minolta devotee.  I've collected and used several Minolta SLRs since then, but as work and family took over most of my time, I slowly lost interest in photography in general, eventually giving into using ... [Read More]

The first of Canon’s “T” series cameras was the T50, which came to market in 1983. I wrote about the Canon T50 for FPP back in early 2011. I love that camera for its simplicity, its feel and balance in the hand, and its ability to accept the Canon FD lenses. But the T50 was really no more than a point and shoot aimed at providing entry-level photographers a small, simplified SLR. A year later ... [Read More]