Est. 1974 · Classic Film Cameras

The camera,
beautifully
mechanical.

A vintage 35 mm SLR, rendered in light and metal. Drag to turn it in your hands — then take it apart and see how a photograph begins.

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Click the camera to explore inside

Shot on Alex Optics

Photographs, not pixels.

Four frames from our customers and our own darkroom wall — drawn here as they were made: slowly, deliberately, on film.

Elise, window lightAlex SLR · 50 mm f/1.4 · 1/500 s

First ladybird of springAlex SLR · 50 mm f/2.8 macro · 1/250 s

Coastal road, late lightAlex RF · 35 mm f/2 · 1/60 s pan

Dawn over the still lakeAlex TLR · 75 mm f/3.5 · 1/125 s

The Shop

Serviced, tested, ready to shoot.

Every body is stripped, cleaned and timed on our bench. Every lens is collimated. Twelve months of warranty, and a lifetime of advice.

Why Film?

Slow down.
Make it count.

Thirty-six frames teach you to look before you press. Grain gives a photograph its weather; a negative gives it a future. Our cameras have already lasted fifty years — with a service every decade, they will happily last fifty more.

Visit the flagship for coffee, conversation and a wall of prints from the people who shoot with what we sell.

1974Founded in Bath

12 moWarranty on every body

48 hrBench turnaround

36Frames to make it count

The camera,beautifullymechanical.

Photographs, not pixels.

Serviced, tested, ready to shoot.

Slow down.Make it count.

The camera,
beautifully
mechanical.

Slow down.
Make it count.