If you were born in the Sixties or grew up in that decade, there’s a very good chance that the key milestones in your early life were documented by an Instamatic camera… most likely badged Kodak, but ...

This is the third in a multipart series by broadcast historian and former TV Tech Technology Editor James O'Neal. With the introduction of increasingly better and more reliable transistor types during ...

Airou Toy Digital Camera, manufactured in China for Capcom (all images courtesy Prestel) The colorful history of toy cameras, those affordable film cameras in plastic boxes, is being celebrated in a ...

What do the Kodak Brownie, the first low-cost camera, launched in 1900, and a 2022 smartphone have in common? They are both popular photographic tools that best represent the spirit of their ...

With Halloween around the corner, it's a good time to look back at how a people used to capture family memories. The Kodak Instamatic camera was called "revolutionary" when it hit the market in a huge ...

Every year on June 29, photography enthusiasts and professionals around the world celebrate Camera Day, a day dedicated to the art and science of capturing moments. From the earliest days of the ...

In photography, necessity has always been the mother of invention – and a number of very pressing needs gave rise to the Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex (TLR) camera, a design that survived for 70 years.

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Not all of James Bond's gadgets were fictional. In the 1969 movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Bond uses a strange-looking metal square to photograph supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld's secret ...