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Digital camera retro look9/20/2023 It even was rumoured to briefly turned up on Argos. Mines came via Kaleidoscope part of the Massive Grattan empire (so think Very, Littlewoods et al). But for a period this camera graced retail shops that didn’t usually sell film gear. And if you lived in a city you can walk into Urban Outfitters and buy one. So granted you can buy online on ebay, amazon (I get commission from this link) or at Analogue wonderland. It does nothing new bar a neat velveteen bag, But it’s the one that has had incredible market penetrance. Innovative as the Minuta and the other cameras on the list are none have had the surprise impact this little Dubblefilm Show clone has. The Agfaphoto Analogue Photo Camera (here in red) And the Swiss Ilford (they own the rights to the name but don’t make film – that’s harman) gave us their IlforColor Dispoable (loaded with a …erm a non Ilford Colour film) Kodak Alaris launched a single use camera Loaded with Tri-X. The biggest growth remain in lo-fi basic cameras. The rumoured cheap(er) Leica M series film body did not materialise and the Reflex SLR looks pretty much dead as a project No wonderous other cameras arrived this year. Although sales are small on each of these there is clearly an appetite. It’s far from perfect but for anyone who wants a Instant that can do more than simple party photos this is your best bet.Īrriving 2021 on the ack of a successful late 2020 KS campaign, this would be followed by the Black version Campaign in Mid 2021. So you get a better focus screen, battery battery life and using the NFE extender less cropping. The MKII took the good bits okay lets be honest a SLR that shoots instax film that you can mount your vintage SLR glass on and sorts out most of the issues. The original SL42 was joint camera of the year in 2020 but it was far from the perfect instant SLR. Nons SL42 MKII and Pentacon 50/1.8 (without NFE) Mint gave us the Instax square version of their range finder the InstantKon SF70. Lomography AG gave us the LomoGraflok back for medium format cameras. No helped by the fact the camera is pretty mediocre and outclassed by the SQ6 & mini 40.īut the Big boys didn’t quite have the show to their own. This wasn’t a fight they needed to bring a the most common complaint about Instax was that even the wide format was still small in comparison. This may be the smallest Polaroid in recent years but the new go film sits squarely between Instax mini and Instax square in size. Their second output the Polaroid Go was a touch more bizarre. Polaroid gave us a slighter more high tech outing with the Now + which updates the 2020 autofocus Now with Bluetooth connectivity for app control and a set of filters as well as that manual control element. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License. Image by Kevin Dooley ( click here for his stream). Smaller makes like Kosmfoto, KONO! & Dubblefilm gave us new films. Polaroid gave us a new format and new versions, Lomography continue to make new film available. Orwo have teased a new colour 35mm film made from motion picture stock and ironically Cinestill gave us a B&W film. The big 3 remain solid and both the next tier and boutique film makers have been busy. It would be easy to gloomly sum up that film was also havinga rough time with Fujifilm discontinuing more film like Provia 400h and the big 3 hiking prices. Shutter costs of course led to the effective demise of the Reflex SLR this year.īut there are some good news stories. But once the big corps stop ordering 10,000’s shutters from Copal, it’s likely the cost will rise significantly even if Copal carries on making them. There is a move (arguably sensibly) to remove physical shutters in the upcoming mirrorless models. the second may be an issue for anyone building future film SLR. Nikon have also discontinued some of their line up. Firstly there has been a winding down of lens production, Canon stopped new EF lens development in 2020 and then started reducing the models in production this year. Product image by Ricoh -Imaging Company Ltd and used in line with their copyright restrictions The dSLR of the year 2021 – Okay the only dSLR of 2021.
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