After 20 years of avoiding intimidating 4-by-5 cameras and $11-a-shot film, I finally tackled my large format anxiety using an innovative digital attachment and my smartphone.

Compact cameras are arguably one of the biggest photography trends of 2026 – but one analog photography startup is taking the opposite approach. The Smartflex 8x10 is a large format film camera – and ...

When you think about all that the digital age has changed, there are few categories that have changed more — and less — than optics. Film cameras are nearly obsolete and the great names of the past — ...

I'm selling my 35mm SLR because I never use it and I'm going to put the money from it towards getting a real 4x5 camera. I think I'm going to get a Speed Graphic, though I'd also love to someday have ...

There’s a good reason that the go-to format for most film photographers is 35 mm, in that it provides a mix of convenience and cost. Shooting huge large-format negatives in the style of a 19th-century ...

Alessandro Gibellini, gripping a clunky, wood-framed, large-format camera, squeezes the contraption’s black accordion bellows and a whoosh of wind rushes from its lens aperture. The hole used to be ...

Fujifilm releases an almost endless number of Instax Mini instant cameras like the recent retro-looking Instax Mini 99, but has only sold two wide-format Instax Wide instant cameras to date. After 10 ...