Film is experiencing a major popularity boom among today's photographers, and there are a lot of old cameras worth money.

Digital SLRs are ubiquitous enough that anyone who wants one can have one, and meanwhile the revival in film use has given many photographers a fresh excuse to use their old camera the way it was ...

Before mixing up chemicals and taking photos, though, [JGJMatt] needed to restore an old Kodak Brownie camera, designed to use a now expensive type of film. Once the camera is cleaned up ...

but these cameras have taught me a lot, forcing me to work in specific visual ways. For some, old film cameras are jewelry and office ornaments, but for others like me, they are important tools ...

Of course, people have been revisiting film cameras, too, as well as Polaroids. However, the digital camera offers a hybrid approach that is more accessible to those without the skillset or ...

Old camera models are displayed at Extinct Media ... hand-cranked image camera, the oldest film camera in the collection of Extinct Media Museum in Tokyo, Japan, on Jan. 11, 2025.

"It all started as a small passion project," says Fabriccio Díaz, 28, who, together with his wife Lucía Ramírez, 25, runs the ...