Cameras

Edwin Land unveiled the Polaroid SX-70 in 1972, a folding single-lens reflex camera that pushed out a print which developed in daylight while you watched. Cameras is about designs like that, the ones photographers keep returning to long after the spec sheets moved on. The Leica M6 went into production in 1984, a mechanical rangefinder with a built-in light meter, and Leica reissued it in 2022 as demand for film cameras grew. Fujifilm announced the first X100 in 2010 and released it in 2011, pairing a fixed 23mm lens with a hybrid viewfinder and the shutter speed dial of an older camera. The line is now in its sixth generation. When Polaroid stopped making instant film in 2008, a group called the Impossible Project took over the old factory in Enschede in the Netherlands and restarted production. The articles explain how each camera works, what goes wrong with used examples and which films and settings suit them. A secondhand SX-70 that leaves streaks on every print usually just needs its rollers cleaned.