Although sales are small on each of these there is clearly an appetite. The rumoured cheap(er) Leica M series film body did not materialise and the Reflex SLR looks pretty much dead as a project No wonderous other cameras arrived this year. The biggest growth remain in lo-fi basic cameras. The Agfaphoto Analogue Photo Camera (here in red) And the Swiss Ilford (they own the rights to the name but don’t make film – that’s harman) gave us their IlforColor Dispoable (loaded with a …erm a non Ilford Colour film) Kodak Alaris launched a single use camera Loaded with Tri-X. Innovative as the Minuta and the other cameras on the list are none have had the surprise impact this little Dubblefilm Show clone has. It does nothing new bar a neat velveteen bag, But it’s the one that has had incredible market penetrance. So granted you can buy online on ebay, amazon (I get commission from this link) or at Analogue wonderland. And if you lived in a city you can walk into Urban Outfitters and buy one. But for a period this camera graced retail shops that didn’t usually sell film gear. Mines came via Kaleidoscope part of the Massive Grattan empire (so think Very, Littlewoods et al). It even was rumoured to briefly turned up on Argos.
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