Rescuing old cameras

At the bottom of my wardrobe there sits a barely used Canon EOS-1V camera. Yes, Canon’s former professional flagship from the days of 35mm film. It’s been sitting there with a couple of EF zoom lenses more years than I can remember. Once in a while, I’m distracted enough to pick it up and marvel at how it fits my hand like a glove. How did we become separated? Well that temptress called digital came along and I changed sides, yet being the old romantic that I am I could never let her go. But now, someone is coming to her rescue.

Camera Rescue is the name of a Finland-based business founded by a small group of analogue camera lovers who have set themselves the target of ‘rescuing’ 100,000 film cameras by the end of 2020. As I write this, the black and white counter on their website homepage stands at just over 60,000. With just under