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To the Moon and Back: Why NASA Still Trusts the Nikon D5 DSLR (And Why You Should Too)

In the camera world, the year 2026 is all about global shutters and eye-tracking AI that can find a bird’s pupil from a kilometer away. But if you look inside... Lue lisää...

Is Your eBay Camera Actually "Mint"? A Kamerastore Condition Report

Hi there! My name is Jahan (@doyoudevelop on Instagram), and I’m writing this to share my personal experience as a photographer navigating the often-unpredictable world of second-hand gear. I’m not... Lue lisää...

Kodak Portra 800 vs. SantaColor 800: Full Film Comparison & Image Samples

Tonight, on Top Emulsion... I load a camera with a film named after a man who lives at the North Pole. We find out if a professional emulsion can justify costing... Lue lisää...

The Beginner’s Guide to Film Cameras: SLR vs. Rangefinder Explained

SLR vs. Rangefinder: Choosing Your Vision If you are new to (film) photography, you might have already noticed that there are a few styles of camera systems out there. Some... Lue lisää...

The Beginner’s Guide to Film Cameras: Buying your first 35mm Camera

If you’re thinking about buying your first film camera, you’re not alone. Interest in 35mm film photography has grown steadily over the past years — not as nostalgia, but as... Lue lisää...

A New Home for SantaColor — Worldwide

In the last 3 years, SantaColor has spread across the globe with almost 200,000 rolls hand-spooled here in Finland. If you are reading this, there is a strong chance that... Lue lisää...

A Kodachrome Slide in the easy35 camera scanning unit

Preserving Memories in Colour: Why Camera Scanning Brings Slide Film Back to Life

There’s something almost sacred about mounted slides. Hold one up to the light and the world inside reveals itself with astonishing clarity — colours that glow, shadows that stay clean,... Lue lisää...

The Future of Photography Isn't Better Cameras - Green Week 2025

The Future of Photography Isn’t Better Cameras Have you ever asked yourself how many cameras have actually been produced in the world? Since the dawn of photography, when Louis Daguerre... Lue lisää...

Meet Sara: Shooting Film with the Canon AE-1 and Kodak Portra 400 in the Forests of Finland

Join Sara, one of our team members at Kamerastore, for a peaceful walk through the forests of Tampere, Finland. Equipped with a Canon AE-1 and a roll of Kodak Portra... Lue lisää...

Kamerastore x Verkkokauppa.com

Kamerastore on aloittanut yhteistyön Suomen suurimman verkkokaupan, Verkkokauppa.comin kanssa. Kun myyt käytetyt kameravarusteesi meille, voit nyt valita kahisevan sijaan 10 % arvoltaan suuremman Verkkokauppa.com-lahjakortin. Vaikkei uudelle kameralle olisikaan tarvetta, löydät... Lue lisää...

Harman Phoenix II – The Newest Film from Harman

Harman Phoenix II, the newest addition to Harmans colour experiments. This film comes both in 35mm and medium format and is one hell of a fire-cracker when it comes to... Lue lisää...

Kentmere PAN 200

Kentmere 200 Review: The Budget ISO 200 Film You Didn’t Know You Needed There’s a quiet sort of thrill that comes with loading a new film stock into your camera.... Lue lisää...

Various VALOI Camera Scanning configurations: The easy35, easy120 and 360.

The best way to scan your film

Have you heard about Camera Scanning? Film photography has made a big comeback — but what about scanning your negatives? Many photographers still rely on outdated flatbed scanners or pricey... Lue lisää...

Top 10 Point and Shoot Cameras for 2025

Top 10 Point and Shoot Cameras for 2025 A celebration of compact legends that shaped how we shoot—from film icons to modern digital marvels. From pocket-sized titans to fixed-lens classics,... Lue lisää...

Top 10 Medium Format Film Cameras for 2025

Top 10 Medium Format Cameras of 2025 (Searched in 2024) 10. Mamiya C330 Introduced: 1969A unique beast in the TLR world with interchangeable lenses! Most twin-lens cameras have fixed optics,... Lue lisää...

Summer Gift Guide

Kick Off Summer & Graduation with 10% Off: Film Photography Gift Guide 2025 Summer is here—and so is graduation season! Whether you’re celebrating a high school grad stepping into their... Lue lisää...

Top 10 35mm Film Cameras for 2025

The Top 10 most searched 35mm Film Cameras in 2025 thanks to Google Trends! Lue lisää...

Kamerastore Holiday Gift Guide 2024

The holiday season is upon us! Here in Finland, the Christmas markets are open and people are out selling homemade crafts, woolen socks, seasonal foods, and other goodies. We’ve already... Lue lisää...

Kamerastore's Sustainability 2024

We aim to keep the conversation on sustainability. As a company that re-circulates 50 000 photographic goods a year - ecologic sustainability has always been built into our daily lives. Lue lisää...

Myyntitapahtuma 26.10. Tampereella!

Moro! Lokakuun 26. päivä klo 10-16 Tampereen PMK-talon katukerroksessa, osoitteessa Erkkilänkatu 11, pidetään Kamerastoren isännöimä valokuvaustarvikkeiden myyntitapahtuma. Mukana monia kauppiaita ja laaja valikoima niin halpoja löytöjä kuin arvokkaita keräilykohteita.Seiskakerroksen myymälämme palvelee sinua... Lue lisää...

Pentax 17 Specifications & Details

An Overview of the New Pentax Half-Frame Film Camera On Monday, June 17th, 2024 Pentax released a new film camera for the first time in around 20 years. This is... Lue lisää...

The New Half-Frame 35mm Camera from Pentax! - Pentax 17 Review

Foreword Hey! I’m Connor, the manager of Kamerastore’s product team. This will be a review of my time with the new Pentax 17. This subjective review represents my opinions and... Lue lisää...

Kamerastore x SmarterEveryDay - Using a Mamiya RZ67 to Photograph the Total Solar Eclipse!

We were recently featured (yet again!) on the popular YouTube channel SmarterEveryDay. This time, Destin used one of our cameras to photograph the solar eclipse. The journey he went through... Lue lisää...

Kamerastore in Dubai 3.-11.5.2024!

This year we have been invited by the Finland World Expo Pavilion to do a pop-up in Dubai from the 3rd of May to the 11th of May. During the pop-up,... Lue lisää...

Kamerastore Stockholm Tour 2024 🇸🇪

Vad händer? Läs på engelska här! / Read this blog post in English here! Våren är här och Kamerastore kommer att fira detta genom att besöka Sverige igen! Som Nordens största specialist på begagnade... Lue lisää...

Kamerastore Stockholm Tour 2024

What's Going On? Läs på svenska här! / Read this blog post in Swedish here! Spring is here and Kamerastore will celebrate this by taking our services outside of Finland again!... Lue lisää...

Canon AE-1 Program film camera with 50mm f1.4 lens on a black background

How to Use: Canon AE-1 Program

Today we’re going to take a look at one of the most popular cameras ever made; the Canon AE-1 Program. This follow-up to the incredibly successful AE-1 added a few... Lue lisää...

13 Years of Kamerastore

As our company heads into its first teenage year, quantifying our achievements becomes a difficult task. The numbers can be so big that they’re hard to grasp, even for us.... Lue lisää...

Shooting a Swing-Lens: The Horizon 202

The Horizon 202 is a fixed-lens, fixed-focus 35mm camera with a swinging lens. It’s capable of taking panoramic photos with a genuinely unique perspective. We tried it out, shooting around... Lue lisää...

Black Canon F-1 film camera on a black background

How to Use: Canon F-1

This time we’ll cover the illustrious Canon F-1! This professional-grade SLR has plenty of interesting features that you may not notice even if you’ve used one. We’ll go over the... Lue lisää...

Black Yashica FX-3 film camera on a black background

How To Use: Yashica FX-3

This compact, mechanical SLR seems simple, but there are a lot of features that you may not know. We’ll go over the basic features of the camera, what each button/dial... Lue lisää...

Black Minolta X-700 film camera on a black background

How to Use: Minolta X-700

Hey there, X-700 users! Today we’re going to talk about one of the final cameras made for the Minolta MD/SR mount, the Minolta X-700. We’ll go over the basic features of the... Lue lisää...

Black Olympus OM-1 film camera on a light brown background

How to Use: Olympus OM-1

Today we’re going to talk about the camera that started the OM series, the Olympus OM-1. We’ll go over the basic features of the camera, what each button/dial does, how to... Lue lisää...

Black Olympus mju-ii camera in someones hand ready to take pictures

Point & Shoot Film Camera Tips for Beginners

Point & shoot cameras are the easiest and cheapest way to get into film photography. They were made to be as simple and compact as possible so anyone could take... Lue lisää...

Kamerastore Sweden tour 2023

What's Going On? Spring is here and Kamerastore will celebrate this by taking our services on the road again outside of Finland! As the Nordics largest analogue camera specialist we... Lue lisää...

Kamerastore x SmarterEveryDay - New Video Online Now!

Kamerastore x SmarterEveryDay - Uutta videota ulkona!

Hei, nyt on isoja uutisia! Kamerastore esiintyy Smarter Every Day -kanavan videolla, jota ylläpitää tunnettu YouTube-persoona ja insinööri Destin. Mikä se sellainen juutubettaja sitten oikein on? Destin on intohimoinen ja... Lue lisää...

Kamerastore's Sustainability 2022

Introduction Kamerastore was built on the idea of a circular economy. In 2010, our founders sat down and decided they would base the entire business on second hand cameras and help preserve film... Lue lisää...

Alternatives to the Canon AE-1

Introduction The Canon AE-1 is arguably the most popular 35mm film SLR in existence. It topped our list of most popular SLRs of 2022 by a wide margin, and we... Lue lisää...

Kameratorin Open House & Outlet -tapahtuma 20.8.2022

Mitäs täällä tapahtuu? Kameratori isännöi avoimien ovien päivää Tampereella 20.8.2022 kaikelle kuvauskansalle klo 11-18. Viime kerrasta on kulunut jo liian pitkä aika! Toimistomme vieressä on 700 neliön tila, johon pistämme... Lue lisää...

Alternatives to the Olympus Mju-II

The Olympus Mju-II (known as the Infinity Stylus Epic in North America) is an incredibly popular film camera. It’s a compact & weatherproof point & shoot with intuitive controls and... Lue lisää...

Advice for New Film Photographers (from the Community)

Introduction Recently, we asked our Instagram followers what advice they’d give to new film photographers. We’d like to take the opportunity to share some of their advice with you as... Lue lisää...

Finding a 35mm SLR Film Camera for Under 100$/€

Introduction Single Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras, like the Canon AE-1 or Pentax K1000, are some of the most popular film cameras out there. Their simple, familiar operation and classic silhouette... Lue lisää...

We’ve Raised 20,000€ for Ukraine!

We’ve officially raised 20,000€ for Ukraine through our sales of Santa film! All of that has already been sent to charities. How Did We Get Here? Our in-house film brand,... Lue lisää...

Tips & Tricks for Shooting 35mm Film in Winter!

Introduction We see some quite frigid temperatures here in Finland. It can regularly reach -20ºC during the day, which is enough to keep most people inside. But for us, as... Lue lisää...

Surfin' Around with Summer Santa 125: A Review

Introduction It started a few months ago with a letter, and ended with a brand new film: Summer Santa! Packed between boxes of cameras coming in for sale and appraisal... Lue lisää...

Top 10 35mm SLRs for 2022

Introduction As 2022 approaches, we’ve been taking some time to look back over the past year. While it was a chaotic time for everyone, the film community saw impressive growth.... Lue lisää...

Spending the Solstice with the Doomo Meter S

Introduction Another year, another Doomo! Almost a year ago to the day I reviewed the Doomo Meter D. Now I’m back with their second offering, the Meter S. The Doomo... Lue lisää...

Group of point and shoot cameras with a blue konica pop in the middle

Top 10 Point & Shoot Cameras for 2022

Introduction Point & shoot cameras combine ease of use with small size to be the most accessible camera choice out there. The goal is to simplify the photographic process so... Lue lisää...

Top 10 Rangefinder Cameras for 2022

Introduction Rangefinder cameras are an elegant, discrete choice that often represents the top-tier of price and build quality. Let’s talk about the best of the best. As 2022 approaches, we’ve... Lue lisää...

Top 10 Medium Format Cameras for 2022

Introduction Let's get started with the big boys! Our second list is the Top 10 Medium Format Cameras of 2022! As 2022 approaches, we’ve been taking some time to look... Lue lisää...

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