Retrospekt

Recently added this rare Esprit camera to the Polaroid 600 wall!

We are starting a Polaroid picture wall again! If we’ve ever worked together in any capacity or you just think it would be cool to have your pic on a random wall in Wisconsin, send us a picture of yourself! Even better if you write your name or a note on the front. 600/SX-70/i-Type only plz.

Snail mail:

Retrospekt
811 E Vienna Ave
Suite 100
Milwaukee, WI 53212

When tech was fun

New white whale – the Toy Story alien CD player 😩😩😩😩

Last year we acquired over 10,000 cassettes between two massive collections 👀 We're not even halfway done going through them. But right now there are over 1,000 different albums on the site, and everything is 20% off for our Memorial Day Weekend Sale!

By the way, every single tape comes in a brand new acrylic shell. All are inspected, cleaned up and rewound. We are really picky about quality. If you have an issue with any media, we are an email away 💌

One day you walked out of a video rental store without knowing it was your last time 🥲

This prewar German medium format camera showed up at our shop recently and we still can’t fully believe it. Produced in extremely limited numbers around 1937, the Zeca-Flex belongs to a bizarre, short-lived category of cameras known as folding TLRs — essentially combining a waist-level twin lens reflex with the collapsing body of a bellows camera.

Unlike traditional TLRs, the Zeca-Flex used two different focal length lenses mechanically linked together so the camera could fold down into a smaller body. In theory: brilliant. In practice: wildly overcomplicated, expensive to manufacture and completely impractical for mass adoption.

Which is exactly why almost nobody has ever seen one.

Most surviving examples are incomplete, nonfunctional or buried deep inside serious collections. This one arrived shockingly clean with its Schneider Kreuznach Xenar lens and Compur shutter intact. We took it for a spin and it produced some lovely exposures.

One of the weirdest and most beautiful cameras we’ve ever handled, and it could be yours!

She probably uses Notion

Probably listening to NOW That’s What I Call Music 4