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Humans are hardwired to like little things… especially when they look like bigger things. That’s why we love our babies even when they wail and poop. We love kittens… even when they bite and cause havoc. And many of us love the cute little Pentax Auto 110… even though it… well… we’ll get to that. Kodak released the 110 film format with their “Pocket Instamatics” in 1972. These are the candy bar shaped cameras that recorded the childhoods of so many Gen-Xers. The wizards of Ro

My centenarian Kodak Brownie 2A Model C was thrown in for free by the owner of a local antique store when I bought a beautiful Kodak 620 folder, and spent the afternoon showing him how all his old cameras worked. This Brownie Model came out in 1924… one of about a billion Kodaks to carry the “Brownie” name between 1900 and 1987. The phrase “Box Camera” was invented for early Brownies. Most look more like the shipping container a camera comes in than an actual camera. To keep

It's a seemingly lowly plastic point and shoot that punches way above its class in ease of use, image quality and fun. The first thing you notice about the Canon Sure Shot Owl is the huge viewfinder. It’s big and bright and really does contribute to making this simple plastic camera a joy to use. The viewfinder is centered over and very close to the taking lens. Parallax is not an issue, even at the camera’s one meter close focus limit. On the topic of focuc, the auto focus

Here are a couple of trivia questions for you… Number one: What camera was used to take the very first photo posted on the Web? Number two: What camera was the first to use the Canon EF auto-focus lens mount? I’m sure you’re way ahead of me… the answer is the same for both questions and it’s the Canon EOS 650. This camera was released in March of 1987… Wikipedia says it was on Canon’s 50th anniversary… and who am I to argue with the almighty crowd-source. The EOS 650 represen

I was doom scrolling through Facebook Marketplace just before Christmas and saw what I THOUGHT was a Yashicamat 124 for a very good...