Olympus Ace (1958)

This is an Olympus Ace, a 35mm interchangeable lens rangefinder camera produced by Olympus Optical Co., Ltd starting in 1958.  The Ace was the first and only rangefinder camera produced by Olympus with interchangeable lenses and had features like an automatic exposure counter, rapid wind lever, projected frame lines, and…

Leica M5 (1971)

This is a Leica M5, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Ernst Leitz GmBH in Wetzlar, West Germany between the years 1971 and 1975.  The Leica M5 was the company’s first metered rangefinder, and the first ever rangefinder camera with TTL metering.  In addition to its metering system, the M5…