Retromania: The Funkiest Cameras of Photography's Golden Age - Tapa blanda

Whether the days of boxes and plates really were photography's 'golden age' is a matter for debate, but this fun, colourful and well-researched guide to retro cameras does make quite a good case. With vintage advertisements and a distinctive visual style, this makes a good gift for any fans of classic cameras. --Amateur Photographer Magazine

This nostalgic trip down memory lane offers many unexpected pleasures. There's a certain priggish joy that would be highly unlikely to garner even vaguely forgiving reviews in today's image-conscious market. Even inveterate camera-fancier Lawrence Harvey has to admit that Ricoh's 1988 Mirai 105 was 'a bit of a howler in the looks department'.
But, as is so often the way with books of this nature, it's the similarities - rather than the differences - that hit home the hardest. Only a few years ago many more of the cameras in Retromania would have looked almost as alien as 1974's aesthetically challenged Keystone Everflash 30, but thanks to the recent trend for retro-styled compact system camera models, you'll find that many of the cameras shown within the pages of this look look curiously current. --Digital Photographer Magazine

Explore a world of cool, quirky, and collectable vintage cameras. The huge growth of sales in Lomography-style plastic-lens cameras shows that interest in, and love of, cheap, fun, cameras has never been stronger. But the few models that are still manufactured are only the tip of the iceberg, with hundreds of amazing, exciting, weird and wonderful cameras widely available at yard sales, thrift stores and online. This book is the first to look at every significant peoples camera launched since Kodak Box Brownie brought cameras to the masses in 1908and some cool gadgets tooproviding a fascinating insight into the tastes of previous generations. Not only that, but each featured camera is accompanied by rare original promotional materials, so you can see exactly what its manufacturers, or Madison Avenue, made of the latest camera in its day (and learn a bit about your grandfathers world!).