Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Kabul, 1996. Rothman is managing editor at TIME. The Afghan box camera—a homemade wooden device known as the kamra-e-faoree, meaning “instant camera”—has been used ...
The Afghan Box Camera has been used in Afghanistan for over a century. It’s unlike any other camera in the world, and this beautifully peculiar device, along with the culture surrounding it, is on the ...
The box camera design with simple one-speed shutter and two mirror/lens-based viewfinders goes back to the 1901 Brownie No. 2, and the 1950 Vredeborch Vrede Box Standard Menis camera shows that ...
Haji Mirzaman was just a teenager when he started taking photos using a homemade wooden box camera in his cousin's studio in downtown Kabul. He took black-and-white portraits of people for passports, ...
Video production cameras tend to fit neatly into one category: Studio-style cameras, box cameras, or PTZ remote-controlled options. But Panasonic wants to merge all three into a single multi-purpose ...
Yesterday, Kodak exited bankruptcy, and the world of consumer products, in order to protect what remains of the once megalithic company. It seems a sad coincidence that exactly 125 years ago, George ...
Seventy-year-old Haji Mirzaman laments as he fiddles with the wooden door on a beloved box camera he has used for 55 years. Just over a decade ago, he was one of dozens of photographers who still made ...
Bolide BN2002WDRIP is a Hybrid Box Camera (IP and analog) with the best characteristics for indoor and outdoor installations. This box camera offers high versatility thanks to its compatibility with a ...
Even though 35mm film is easy to find today, you can't just pop it into a No. 00 Cartridge Premo camera. The reason Kodak called this camera a Then this laboriously-crafted six-image roll goes into ...