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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Leonie Helm

Affordable and fashionable: The 23-year-old founder of $2m film camera brand 35mm Co. speaks to DCW

Madison Stefanis has created an affordable and fun film camera small enough to fit in your clutch bag. .

When Madison Stefanis, now 23, dropped out of The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in the last semester of her bachelor of Business degree, she could never have imagined she would soon have a multimillion-dollar business. 

After maintaining a successful side hustle flipping vintage cameras while still at university, she soon ran into supply issues due to the renewed interest in retro film cameras. It was then she turned her attention to developing her own film camera. 

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