Holy Grail (the dumpster version)

On how a ground braking camera prototype almost got into the dumpster.

Holy Grail (the heirloom version)

When your grandfather was Dr. Erhard Glatzel, one of the great lens designers of the twentieth century, it won’t come as too much of a shock to find out that you’ve inherited two lenses that, by all accounts, don’t officially exist.

A new, more focused whishlist

The Bessa L
The 80mm Hasselblad
The Button, the Rainbow & Pronto from Polaroid
The Yashica T4
A Frank Beltrame Italian Toothpick

more to come

10.02.1924 - 29.12.2012