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Welcome to the World of Vintage Watches

When you account for our base-level fascination with all things retro tech, it was probably a given that curiosity would eventually push us into t...

Meet Gudetama, the Lazy Egg We All Need Right Now

Retrospekt presents a second Sanrio collaboration, featuring a cute little egg character named Gudetama. Unlike some of Sanrio's peppier characters...

The Magic of Killer Acid Comes to Polaroid

Back in late 2019 we started working on a new custom Polaroid camera collaboration, never knowing the weird trip we’d all be on when it finally ca...

Functions like new. Packaged like new.

You may have already heard us mention it, but we recently designed brand new packaging for our vintage Polaroid folding cameras. Yes, we've been s...

3D Printed Face Shields

Retro tech is great, and while it may be just what’s needed to fight boredom, it’s understandably worthless at fighting a virus. As COVID-19 ...

Roll film developed with Murray Photo

A lot of you have asked where we personally get our roll film developed, so we figured we'd take the opportunity to tell you about one of our all-...

Barbie Throwback Camera: Party Like it's 1999

Two decades after the Barbie Polaroid camera was first released in 1999, we are proud to bring the two iconic brands back together again. With this...

Parks Project and Retrospekt Share the Love

We love restoring Polaroid cameras. Like, really love. And when we get to make Polaroid cameras for incredible companies like Parks Project, who gi...

Birth of the 600 Camera: The Original Engineering Prototype from 1980

People often ask us if we have a special collection, or if it's hard letting certain rare models go. There's something about holding a pristine tra...

I Want My MTV (Camera)!

We're so psyched that the team here at Retrospekt could help make this camera a reality—combining refurbished, vintage interiors from 1980s and 90s...

Hello Kitty Celebrates 45 years with a new Polaroid camera from Retrospekt

To celebrate 45 wonderful years of Hello Kitty, Sanrio has teamed up with Retrospekt to release a limited edition Polaroid 600 vintage instant came...

Saying Goodbye to Spectra

If you haven’t already heard, Polaroid Originals has announced their decision to cease manufacturing of Spectra film. I want to take the opportunit...