"Shut up, that's adorable," said a woman from Gen Z who held the Chuzhao camera after I put it in their hands. It's the beautiful little TLR camera that's currently trending around the web. I haven't reviewed anything like this since 2011, and I'm very thankful that the spring in NYC is bringing with it the buds of a charming future past.
In many ways, the Mint Instantflex TL70 Plus is my favorite camera that I've reviewed this year. In a 2023 dominated by a ton of digital cameras and cheap film cameras, this is a welcome respite. So I'm going to say a few words -- and know that all of them describe this camera.
What's more fun than putting together a Lego Instax camera? For some of you, probably thing. There's a yearning in the Instax film photography community to have more cameras with different designs and full manual capabilities.
I really enjoyed reading the Photography: The Definitive Visual History and it got me thinking about blending older forms of photography with newer digital equipment. I became obsessed with TLR (Twin Lens Reflex) cameras — not for their ability to view through one lens while capturing an image through the other, but for the style […]
The legendary Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera is back… in a very different style. Rollei today announced the new Rolleiflex Instant Kamera, a TLR instant camera that shoots Fuji Instax Mini film.
It’s not every day that you receive free stuff from strangers on the Internet. (Much less, stuff you actually want). I figure that something like this should be commended… Several weeks ago I had commented on a Reddit r/history post before heading off to bed for the night. It was fairly popular, even making /r/all, […]