Lomography

Those analog lovers at Lomography have turned their attentions to Kickstarter in order to raise funds for their next project — a smartphone based 35mm film scanner. The project is attempting to raise $50,000 for the Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner, a small battery powered device that'll let you easily get your film negatives onto your iPhone.

Most of the glass we've been writing about here at Photokina 2012 has been big and fast, but the Olympus bodycap lens is the exact opposite and that's what makes it cool.

Leica's M9 is an amazing camera, capable of capturing photos that are scary sharp, but what happens when you take sharpness out of the picture almost entirely? grEGORy Simpson (weird capitalization is his) decided to find out by making himself some pinhole optics out of gaffer's tape and a "sharp object."

The German Polaboy is a very cool take on the venerable (and still eminently fashionable) Polaroid picture. These installations acts as a dual purpose art print/light source, blowing up a photograph to huge size, and then giving it a backlight of constant illumination. Lightboys — the company behind the Polaboy — have designed the entire product from the ground up, recreating both the SX 70 and Spektra forms at ten times their previous size.