Retro-styled cameras are trendy right now, but what if the trick to getting that old-school photo look isn’t the camera at all, but the lens? That’s the question that eventually led me to the PolarPro LightLeak 28mm. The LightLeak series has a feature that I’ve never seen before on a lens: a window that opens and shuts to create real light leak effects in-camera.
A light leak on a film camera is, technically, a flaw. Light leaks occur when the film camera is no longer fully capable of sealing out all light except what’s coming through the lens. But like film grain, light leaks have become an endearing sort of flaw that instantly brings retro vibes.
