March 2022

My film camera collection has grown over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic — both as I’ve stopped spending money on things like vacations and shifted those dollars to spending on cameras, and as I’ve gotten into restoring and repairing cameras, which involves buying cheap, derelict cameras with a hope of returning them to service. (Sometimes, as with my Yashica-D, it’s been a massive success, too.) But as my film camera collection has topped 130 examples, I’ve been thinking lately about which ones I shoot, which ones I want to shoot more, and which ones I’d keep if I ever chose to downsize. This article is the result of that thought process; a Top 10 (or so) list of some sort, I guess you could say. And foreseeing that my opinions might shift with time, I’ll just label this as being for 2022.

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