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Voigtländer Vitessa A

1950 German 35mm Rangefinder

A Premium German Foldable 35mm Rangefinder Camera

Voigtländer Vitessa is a German folding 35mm film rangefinder camera, manufactured in the mid-1950s. Variant A is the first Vitessa in this remarkable 35mm shooter lineup. ☝︎Further reading: For an in-depth review of Voigtländer Vitessa L3, the latest folder in this lineup with a selenium light meter, see “Voigtländer Vitessa L With Ultron 2.

Lewis Williamson

New SLR, Lens, Meter, and Books on Kickstarter +Thoughts on Scanning Colour

☞ Get “Community Letters” via email: a monthly overview of the latest news, events, and stories from the film photography community. What’s new? Lots of action this month on Kickstarter with Lomography’s launch of Atoll Ultra-Wide lens, a new light meter from Reveni Labs, NONS SL42 instant film SLR, The Cyclopedia of Broken Cameras, and Moscow Daze photobook.

February ‘21 Community Letter

Ricoh YF-20

1989 Japanese 35mm Viewfinder

Get full manual control over this cheap point-and-shoot

Intermediate — Hacking Ricoh YF-20

A Hackable Point-and-Shoot With a Flash and Motorized Film Transport

Ricoh YF-20 is a plastic body focus-free point-and-shoot camera with a built-in flash, motorized film transport, 1/125s fixed shutter and a 35mm Ricoh 𝒇4 coated glass lens with three-elements in three groups. It has a film ISO selector, though all it does is sets the aperture for something like LV13 and occasionally shows an underexposure warning light.

Optiko

Book Review

Book Review (And How to Avoid Publisher’s Burnout)

Optiko is a community project that culminated in a Kickstarter campaign back in 2017. The book is a diverse pool of eighty-seven peoples’ work that spans 276 thick, colourful pages. I have a numbered copy: 10/150. My book, same with everyone else’s, features a full-page ad for Analog.

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Inside World/Outside World

The Pademic

Shutting the Doors in Yerevan — April 2020

​✪ Note: This is a digital reprint of an essay originally published in Monochrome 1. 20 — a community photography magazine by Analog. Cafe. You can read it along with 13 more authors’ works on paper, the way they were intended to be. Get your copy of Monochrome here and support our charitable cause.

Rollei Prego 100WA

2000s American Autofocus Viewfinder

A Pretty Little Point-and-Shoot

Rollei Prego 100WA is a beautiful point-and-shoot with a 28-100mm 𝒇5. 8-𝒇10. 5 Vario-Apogon lens (the maximum aperture changes based on zoom level). It can focus as close as . 5m with “macro” mode or . 65m/2’1½” normally. The camera has a decent shutter that actuates between 1 and 1/500th of a second.

New Book, New Film, Discontinued 400H, and Much, Much More

☞ Get “Community Letters” via email: a monthly overview of the latest news, events, and stories from the film photography community. What’s new? 35mm film got a little cheaper — who would’ve thought! — sadly, the good news comes as Fujifilm discontinues its entire 400H line.

January ‘21 Community Letter

2Sic 2Spurious

2Sic 2Spurious is a whimsical collection of photographic mistakes in a stylish square package. This book is a community collaboration featuring works by David Allen, Virgil Roger, Alex Purcell, Adam James, Marisa Mouton, Stig Starr, Jason Self, Moni Smith, PJ De Jesus, Steve Brokow, Maite Pons, Simon King, Julián Péter, John BackEastPhoto, Tim Dobbs, Jeremy Calow, Ashley Williams, Lilly Swartz, Matt Parry, Hamish Gill, Gordon Boddington, Martin Siegal, Lorraine Healy, and Sina Farhat.

Small Wonders

I got into photography about eleven years ago when I bought my first DSLR to film this skate video for a friend’s sponsorship pitch. Having completed the project, I started experimenting with stills as I scoured Flickr and 500px for inspiration. The images that did it for me were often close-ups of the little natural phenomena you’d find in a forest.

Shanghai Streets

Magazine Review

A zine or a mag is typically something created at home or designed outside of the traditional publisher realm, which Shanghai Streets certainly is. Still, if I were to put it on my shelf, it’d go in the “magazine” section as that’s what it feels like to me.

Film, cameras, and chemistry. Techniques, tips, guides, and references. This list includes material for creative individuals and photographers of all levels, with a fitting mix of modern and age-old advice.

Photography Guides

Film camera reviews and guides. Sorted by date then country they were designed in.

Film Cameras

Film, developer, and all photochemistry reviews, samples, guides, and tools.

Film and Chemistry

Film, photography, and art-themed printed book and magazine reviews, overviews, how-to’s and recommendations.

Books and Magazines

Photo essays, written about travel, a place, or a destination. Sorted by continent then country. This collection does not include gear-centric articles — just the stories about being or going somewhere.

Travel Essays

A collection of all the portrait photography on Analog.Cafe. Includes photo essays with human focus and/or prominent stories about the subjects. Street or event photography isn’t generally a part of this collection, unless the person(s) are at the heart of the narrative.

Portraits

Essays and stories on the topics of social and environmental justice around the world.

Health, Environment, and Humanity

Downloads, Subscriptions, Bookmarks, Submissions

You can open your Analog. Cafe account with just one click. It’s free and it gives you access to a few special member priveledges:Downloads. Certain guides, like this one, could take an hour to read. Some references require printing to be useful. Analog.

About Analog.Cafe Accounts

Rules, Ideas, Suggestions

Everyone — How to Get Featured on Analog.Cafe

Get Your Article or Essay Featured on Analog.Cafe

Analog. Cafe, A Film Photography Blog, is a group effort. There certainly is no office; most of us never met. ↬ Shortcut: write/submit your photo essay or article. I’ve had an author send me a submission while waiting for a delayed flight at an airport.

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