#PENTAX CAMERA RETRO PORTABLE#

And the hotshoe is on the bottom as there’s no space on top. Something interesting about this is it’s such a compact camera, the fixed lens “folds” into the vintage camera. Something you’ll want to look out for is light leaks, as they can be quite common in older cameras. Like many film cameras, they were produced for a very long time so there’s a wide variety of models on the market. Even today it remains the second smallest in compact cameras. When the Rollei 35 was released in 1966, it was the smallest 35 mm camera on the market. For a Canon film camera, this should be at the top of your list. It sold over 1 million units! You would expect this from one of the best, vintage cameras. This is Canon’s first affordable TTL (Through The Lens metering) camera, which added autoexposure modes as well as shutter-speed priority, which we’re all familiar with today.īecause of the low cost, huge advertising campaign, and added features, it became one of the most popular cameras of the time. But that’s just down to how good and popular this camera was. The Canon AE-1 was produced by Canon for nearly 10 years, which sounds a bit absurd when you consider our throwaway culture these days.

#PENTAX CAMERA RETRO PORTABLE#

Olympus thought it would be as portable as a pen… which it almost is! There are tons of different models of Pen available, even an SLR camera version, and digital camera versions too. It’s a 35 mm camera that was produced from 1959 to the beginning of the ’80s, and it’s named Pen because of its size. It also means that when you hold the camera in landscape orientation, you’re actually taking a portrait photo. That means that each photo only fills half a frame, so you can fit 72 photos onto a single roll of film! The thing that makes this vintage camera so unique is that it’s a half frame camera. In no particular order, let’s have a look at some of these vintage cameras now. Some of the sharpest images I’ve ever captured have been on a film camera that cost me less than $100. Sure, brands such as Leica are famous for their quality and prestige, but so are many of the cameras on this list. You can own a huge range of classic film cameras for less than $100! The camera body alone costs upwards of $1,000.Īlthough the Leica may remain a pipe dream for years to come, I’m here with some good news. Our eyes glaze over as we imagine another world where our everyday shooter was a Leica M6 rangefinder camera. When we think about classic film cameras we wish we owned, many of us will stare off into the distance.

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