Kosmo Foto's next camera review?

Hello all

A couple of newsletters ago, I asked the ‘Advance/Rewind’ community which camera should be next on the review pile after I’ve published my experiences with the Lomography LOMO MC-A.

The choices were:

Thanks to everyone who took part in the poll - I had more than 120 responses.

Three of these six cameras slugged it out for first place, but in the end there was one clear winner: the Leicaflex, with the Olympus OM-10 in second place.

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Sorting through my box of to-develop film from the past year in the fridge the other day, I noted there’s nearly a dozen films shot on the Leicaflex to develop, so they’ll be going off to the lab in the next couple of weeks. Time to get scanning!

Thanks again for everyone’s input, I think I’ll make these review polls a regular thing.

Crate digging for compacts

In a previous life - what sometimes seems like several lifetimes ago - I was a music journalist. Drop me in a foreign city and my number one goal was to find the nearest secondhand record store where I could spend a few hours rifling through the racks of used CDs and records. How very analogue.

I don’t do that as much as I’d like anymore, but that itch does get scratched whenever I see box of cameras in a flea market or junk shop. Who knows what might be lurking under those piles of dusty Halinas and lens-less Zenits?

Before Christmas, I decided to do that with one of my Cameraburo pop-ups which take place at the Aperture Printing film processing lab in London. I filled three boxes with cameras - one full of cameras for £5, one for £10, and one for £15/20. People couldn’t seem to help themselves, especially for the cheaper two boxes. We’re both winners - they get a camera for less than the cost of a roll of film, and I get to clear some space on the shelves.

It went so well that this week I rifled through the Cameraburo stock cupboard and sorted out a bunch more. If you find yourself in London on Saturday (24 January), come along and say hello. I’ll be at Aperture Printing on Rathbone Place from 12pm. I can’t promise any Leicas lurking in the £5 box, but there are plenty of fun point and shoots to choose from - and everything comes with batteries and a one-month warranty.

Films feels for the digital age

I don’t often write about digital cameras on Kosmo Foto, but in the case of the Rewindpix PS135, I couldn’t resist. This forthcoming camera’s designer, Xiao Liu, was inspired to create his first camera thanks to the film model that he picked up 25 years ago - the Agfa Optima Sensor 535. 

I’m lucky enough to have a few cameras from the Agfa Optima range in my collection - they’re fantastic cameras, blessed with a sharp lens and an absolutely huge viewfinder. Liu was obviously blown away by the view he saw in his Optima Sensor 535, and indeed his first camera (launching on Kickstarter in March) really does resemble the chunky Agfa compact.

Liu kindly answered some questions put to him by Kosmo Foto, and you can read all about the Agfa-alike camera in our story.