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January 2026 links

Film cameras

‘Marty Supreme’ Star Brings a Contax G2 Camera Along on Promo Tour — Petapixel tells us that hollywood stars now use Contax G2. The prices are gonna sky-rocket.

They also remind us that Sabrina Carpenter Spotted Using a Gorgeous Contax G2 Camera — and back in October another star using Contax G2. At least she doesn’t seem to go on talk shows with it.

In 2017 Kendall Jenner Shares Her Passion for Photography on The Tonight Show ruining the Contax T-series for everyone with its sky-rocketing prices.

Printing slides

1980s F1 Photographer Sees His Work Printed for the First Time Thanks to His YouTuber Son — a bit click bait. The Toronto based car enthusiast son of the photographer just showed us how he could get the images printed. Nothing ground breaking, but these are slides, and even mini-lab could handle these (not mentioned). He end up with DSLR scanning and pro-lab large format printing. Great pictures. And this should encourage you to print your work.

Film recipes

A Movie-Like Look for Your Images – The Fujifilm “Movie Recipe” — Another film recipe.

Instax

Zinstax — The home of Zinstax and Binstax, Instax Square backs for Mamiya RZ67 and RB67. Made in Germany it seems. Not the only option.

Misc

“Throwing my camera was the right thing to do”: The photographers behind the viral protest photos — a story of photojournalism covering current events in Minneapolis.

November 2025 Links

Film news

DPReview just confirmed that Eastman Kodak has resumed direct sales of consumer film after more than a decade — This following the release of Kodacolor and the repackaing of both Gold 200 and Ultramax 400.

Trying Aerocolor — Erica Fustero tries Kodak Aerocolor that is sold only by the brand respooling it, even though most of them don’t say it. It’s a 100 ISO colour negative.

Fujifilm

The Complete History of Fujifilm X and GFX Cameras — An almost up to date timeline of the Fujifilm X and GFX line.

Leica

Pope Francis’ One-of-a-Kind Leica Sold for Nearly 100x Its Estimated Value — It’s not a camera that will shoot a lot if at all. It should be noted it’s a film Leica M, not a digital one. It’s serial number 5000000 (five million) so is the Noctilux 50mm f/1.2. It sold for €6,500,000 (instead of the €60,000 estimated)

Pope Francis’s Leica M-A set sells for 100 times its estimate at Leitz Photographica Auction — Same thing but this article also mention the bsck-up Leica M3 of the one gifted in 1958 to Queen Elizabeth II by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany. It sold for only €156,000.

A closer look at some of Queen Elizabeth II’s favorite cameras — The Queen used many cameras. Including one similar to the M3 mentioned above.

Other

Digicams: The Cameras of the Modern Digital Rebellion — About that trend of using old digicams…

Link: First impressions: Lomography LOMO MC-A

I mentioned the Lomography LOMO MC-A recently. Kosmo Foto has had the privilege to shoot with one for a while and now have their first impressions of the Lomography LOMO MC-A.

Lomography is know for cheap plastic cameras that define the style of what people call “Lomography”, a sort of lo-fi photography.

Lomography’s new 35mm compact camera is a world away from simpler cameras like the LomoApparat or the Fisheye No. 2.

As it stands the LOMO MC-A is already on a different trajectory of more premium, with a build quality that feel solid with metal parts, exposure system, autofocus with manual options.

The test rolls seems to show good results. At ₤450 (CA$699) it’s definitely not cheap, but the result seems to be on par. This show the commitment of Lomography to film photography in general, as they also release a new film. Kosmo Foto expects to publish a more thorough review in 2026.

“The New Era of Film Scanning”

From Soke Engineering: Knokke The New Era of Film Scanning.

Strips of slide film (positive) on a light table viewed in a diagonal orientation. The punchy colours brings joy to the photographer.
Strips of slide film on the light table.

The very short version: a new 35 mm film scanner with roll feed, not unlike the Pakon. But with modern parts, repairability, and open-source software to drive it. The software part is not negligible. You cannot use a Pakon without installing the software on obsolete Microsoft malware. Same for the very expensive Fujifilm Frontier, for for Nikon or any other vendor from decades ago. And without the software they are expensive bricks.

Their target price is €999 at launch, later €1599 (I do have questions). With an intent to scan a roll in 5 minutes at a resolution of 4064 dpi.

It’s still in a state of development, with a Kickstarter planned for Q1 2026, so it’s not available soon yet. But it’s good to see a renewed interest in that niche of equipment that the previous manufacturers have abandoned with their software no one can fix and that doesn’t run on modern computers.

I’ll make sure to post an update.

Analogue aF-1

Analogue announced the pre-order for the Analogue aF-1.

The aF-1 is a compact 35mm point-and-shoot camera designed by the Amsterdam company Analogue. It has 35mm f2.8 glass lens, LiDAR autofocus and built-in flash. All the features expected from the early 21st century point-and-shoot.

The pre-order price is 449€ or CA$790 (+ shipping) for a delivery Q1 2026.

Specs are not unlike an Olympus mju-II.

More film: Lomography LomoChrome Classicolor 200

A day after Kodacolor 100 and 200 are announced, Lomography comes out with a new 200 ISO colour negative. LomoChrome Classicolor 200 is a “limited edition”. Not sure why limited edition, I suspect they might have obtained a limited stock of something no longer produced. CN100 is thought to be a Kodak stock that is not available under a different brand.

It will be sold for CA$13.90 which is higher than of the Kodacolor 200 listed at CA$16.00.

via Kosmo Foto

And the Kodacolor announcement was such a big deal that non photography outlets talked about it.