Every so often, I'll get really frugal and ask a couple of cameras to share a roll of film.  Though there are problems here and there, t...

For the classic camera collector, picking a handful of favorites can not only be a huge challenge, but it can also be something that largel...

Surprises can be a very good thing, particularly when they fill an unmet need or want. I had just won one of those "bulk" camera...

Some things take work to get right, be they relationships, recipes, or simply routines.  And while instant gratification can be a wonderful...

About the best barometer of a camera collector's affinity towards a particular example in his active collection would be the number of ...

This is Part 2 of a recurring series on basic point and shoot consumer cameras, the details of which can be found here . It's a Gen...

To ponder and postulate the perils of my predicament was particularly problematic.  Phooey! Sure I'm a "camera collector," b...

Beginning in the late 1940's, Bencini of Milan Italy produced a number of uniquely designed 127 cameras under the "Comet" nam...

The term "do-it-yourselfer" is pretty much a common part of conversational parlance these days, fueled to a large degree by the ab...

If you have ever perused the entries of  this blog, it is readily apparent that I have a huge reverence for Kodachrome film.  And this rever...

In the digital photography era, a photographer who still collects and shoots film cameras can often feel like a kid in a candy store.  It is...

Ten Dollars.  Some might say I paid too much. I can't say I'd argue that, but for a bit of photographic fun, I'd say the price ...

And this is why the resistance was futile!  Finally, a "prequel" to my Boxy Beasts of 127 article to explain how I finally adopte...

Long before the days of internet surfing, 24 hour cable television news, and Instagram, times were a quite a bit simpler, and to a great de...

There are times in one's life when seemingly small gestures result in meaningful changes to one's routine that were neither expected...

Resistance was futile.   I kept telling myself I had no need to go into the format of 127.  I continually insisted that there was no benef...