About

We help people buy a used film camera without getting burned. Name the camera you’re after, like a Canon AE-1, a Nikon FM2, an Olympus XA or a Mamiya RB67, and there’s a page for it. Each one tells you the camera’s story, the battery it takes, what still works without one, and what to check in a listing before you buy.

What repairers and long-time shooters know about these cameras is scattered across manuals, repair notes and forum threads, and a raw eBay search gives you none of it. So we keep 50 camera pages in one place, write down the tells that usually take a few bad buys to learn (gummy light seals, a squealing mirror, a meter waiting on a mercury cell, a hazy lens) and pick the listings we’d buy.

We don’t sell cameras. No affiliate links. We earn nothing. We run no analytics and set no tracking cookies. We’re not affiliated with any maker we cover or anyone who owns those names today. See how we work for how the pages are researched and our disclosure for how links, picks and photos work.

Contact Sheet is part of allbutnew, a set of shops for secondhand gear. Got a film camera to sell? The “Get an offer” link on every camera page sends it to our camera expert, who replies by email.