About us
Yours to keep. Yours to create.
8 Camera London is a workshop for fine used photographica — classic cameras, lenses and imaging systems, sold, inspected, serviced and set right in London.
Formerly Kasia Camera London — same workshop, same people, same bench.
Eight is infinity
Our name comes from 8. Laid on its side, it is the infinity symbol, ∞. Photography is the art of stopping time — in the instant the shutter falls, a fleeting, disappearing moment is fixed, to be looked at, kept and passed on.
We believe a truly fine instrument doesn’t only belong to the past. It belongs to the next hand, the next frame, the next story. Second-hand should not mean second-best — it should mean quality, character and value that survived the filter of time.
Our mission is simple: to deliver a camera with years of history in working order as reliable as the day it left the factory.
Our standards
What matters in a used camera isn’t how new it looks — it’s whether it’s real, reliable, clearly sourced, and holds up to long use and inspection. So we hold to:
- Original & complete
- Genuine parts, never a Frankenstein assembly.
- Not refinished-as-original
- No refurb or swapped parts passed off as untouched.
- Provenance clear
- We know where it came from.
- Condition transparent
- Glass, shutter, aperture, advance, meter — all written down.
- Faults told plainly
- Problems stated, not hidden under cosmetics.
Selected pieces also carry a Technical Passport — the recorded condition, tests, grade and technician’s sign-off. How we grade →
The workshop
Experience, not guesswork.
Many faults in old equipment aren’t isolated — a generation’s shutter drift, a lens family’s haze risk, a system’s advance quirk. Reading them takes years at the bench. Our team works across Leica, Hasselblad, Rolleiflex and Contax, and is guided by senior technicians from Gothenburg, Sweden — long-time Hasselblad specialists — using the proper tools, and stable parts channels, so nothing is bodged. See Repair & Service →
Come and see us — visit the studio.