Retro cameras aren’t a nostalgia gimmick anymore, they’re outselling plenty of mainstream mirrorless bodies, and the restock waitlists prove it. Buyers want dials they can feel, texture a touchscreen can’t fake, and photos that read like a moment instead of a file. That pull is the same wave we tracked in our vintage Casio watch […]
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For years, FX3 shooters wanted two things Sony kept locked inside its pricier cinema cameras: internal RAW and open gate. On July 22, Sony finally handed both over. The new FX5 is a full-frame Cinema Line camera that sits above the FX3 and below the FX6, and it does something no FX body has done
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The compact camera outselling everything else in Japan right now isn’t a viral Fujifilm or a cult Ricoh. It’s the Kodak PixPro C1, a point-and-shoot that costs about a hundred dollars and shoots photos your phone would beat without trying. Right behind it sits another Kodak, the PixPro FZ55, and the gap between what these
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Xtra’s dual-lens pocket gimbal, the Muse 2 Pro, now carries a Q3 2026 launch target for the US, later than the summer window some buyers first expected. Rather than issue a formal delay notice, Xtra firmed up the date on its early-access page. The company frames the shift as normal timing for an ambitious new
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Think about the last time you tried to film something worth watching. You propped your phone against a water bottle, asked someone who filmed mostly sky and pavement, or skipped it entirely because the setup wasn’t worth the interruption. The moment happened. The record of it didn’t. Price: From $549 Where to Buy: Kickstarter Mondo
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Every camera upgrade of the last decade has pointed the same direction. Bigger screens, sharper live previews, more information stacked in front of your eyes before you even press the shutter. Price: ¥199 ($29) Where to Buy: Godox Most people assume a camera without a screen is missing something. Godox just bet the opposite, and
The Screenless Camera Betting You Don’t Need to See Your Shot Read More
If the AulGo pocket camera is on your radar, you have a decision to make, and a deadline. The $199 Kickstarter pledge, down from a planned $358 retail price, is all-or-nothing and closes next week. So the real question isn’t only whether this tiny 4K camera is good. It’s whether backing it now beats waiting
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The tiny keychain camera trend has a new contender Yashica, the historic Japanese camera brand, just launched its Funtastic Keychain Camera—a 22-gram pocket digicam with a 180-degree flip screen, USB-C charging, and licensed Hello Kitty and Peanuts editions that go straight for the Y2K nostalgia crowd. Price: HK $218 or $28 USD Where to Buy:
Yashica Funtastic Keychain Camera: $25 Flip-Screen Digicam Competes with Kodak Charmera Read More
Your phone hit its ceiling about six TikToks ago. Prime Day 2026 has five cameras under $500 that feel like a real upgrade, not a sidegrade you’ll regret by August. We picked one for every shooting style creators actually use. Inside the round-up: a mirrorless body for talking-head work and B-roll, a vlog compact built
Don’t Grab a Prime Day Camera Until You See These Five Read More
The camera built into your laptop is probably the weakest link in how the world sees you, and no clip-on lamp or software filter fixes a sensor the size of a pinhead. What’s actually changed in the last two years is the AI webcam, a camera that tracks, frames, and exposes you on its own
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Kodak’s tiny keychain camera, the one people kept selling out last year, is back in Y2K dress code, and it might be the most early-2000s thing to launch in 2026. The Kodak Charmera Millennium Edition went on sale direct from Reto Production in mid-June, with six new metallic blind box designs and a rare secret
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Every time a Kodak Charmera sells out, someone adds it to a restock alert and waits. The smarter move this year isn’t waiting. There’s a designer on MakerWorld who already figured that out, and 319 backers who agreed. Price: From $10 Where to Back: Makerworld The Keymera, launched on MakerWorld crowdfunding on May 19, is
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You know the Charmera. It’s that tiny Kodak keychain that takes blocky 1.6-megapixel photos, sells out the moment it hits a shelf, and somehow turned a deliberately bad camera into one of the year’s most chased gadgets. Now it has hardware to match the hype. Price: $34.99 Where to Buy: Amazon Kodak and RETO have
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ARTICLE – Every phone camera in 2026 runs the same loop: shoot, preview, delete, reshoot. That cycle has been the default for so long that most people don’t notice it happening anymore. The Flashback ONE35 V2 exists to break it. For $119, you get a reusable digital camera with no screen, no instant preview, and
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The Polaroid Now Gen 3 costs below $120. That’s the easy part. The expensive part is every single photo you take after that. Price: $109.98 Where to Buy: Amazon Each shot on Polaroid’s i-Type film runs roughly $2 when you buy a standard color pack. In a world where your phone stores 10,000 photos for free,
This Camera Charges You $2 Per Photo and People Can’t Stop Buying It Read More
Somewhere along the way, tiny cameras disguised as other objects became a legitimate product category, and the Kodak Charmera kicked it off last year. Now Japanese brand Opt! has entered with something even more committed to the bit: the OPT100 Neo Film, a tiny digital camera shaped exactly like a canister of 35mm film. It’s
A Tiny Camera Disguised as a Film Canister Takes Photos Read More
ARTICLE – Instant cameras freeze moments, but this one records them, converts the footage into a scannable code, and prints both on film. The Fujifilm instax mini Evo Cinema captures up to 15 seconds of video, lets you pick a single frame, then embeds a QR link on the print that plays the clip when
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REVIEW – One of the requirements of my new studio/office is to have the ability to record video within the space, removing the scenario where I want to record people or objects but do not have a camera covering that angle. This requirement not only means having enough strategically placed cameras, but also being capable
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Lets face it, at 40+ years of age (closer to 50 than to 30) my hardcore extreme action sport days are far behind me. That doesn’t mean I am an old stick in the mud, I still like to get out be active and I have even been known try new things. But now my
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What you see in the picture isn’t a couple of camera lenses. It’s a couple of cameras! The Sony CyberShot DSC-QX10 Smartphone Attachable Lens-Style Camera is a fully-functional, fully-featured camera minus an LED viewscreen. Sony says this is the “first-ever zoom lens and sensor combo that clips right to your smartphone”. You can connect the camera
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