One of the most frequent complaints I hear in my job is how they don’t build ‘em like they used to, with many photographers missing the good old days of film cameras with their weighty metal construction instead of the light polycarbonate plastics most cameras and lenses today are made from. But recently, these veteran photographers have been joined by a younger crowd who for a multitude of reasons (let’s not dive into that here) have flocked to the vintage camera aesthetic.
