This is a Merica flex Model 2, a twin lens reflex camera made by Merica Camera Works in Japan in the early 1950s, probably around 1953. It was one of a large number of Japanese clones of German Rolleicord TLRs made in Japan around this time and like many others,…
This is a Wenk Wenka II, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Gebrüder Wenk in Nuremberg, West Germany between the years 1951 and 1952. The Wenka was the only camera made by Wenk before they stopped making cameras. At least four versions of the Wenka were produced, the Model II…
This is a Welta Belmira, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by VEB Welta-Kamera-Werk between the years 1956 and 1961. Although credited as a Welta camera, the Belmira was originally designed by Belca-Werk in Dresden, Germany as early as 1951, but didn’t get released until five years later. The Belmira was…
This is a Leica Model B, a 35mm camera made by Ernst Leitz GmbH of Wetzlar, Germany between the years 1926 and 1941. The Leica Model B was the second model in the Leica series and is the only Leica camera ever made which uses a Compur leaf shutter. Two…
This is a Hanimex 35 Micro Flash, a compact 35mm point and shoot camera released by Hanimex in multiple markets around the world. The camera was made in Japan, most likely by the Sedic Camera Company, but this is difficult to confirm. The Hanimex 35 Micro Flash is a small…
This is a Whittaker Micro 16, a sub-miniature camera made by the William R. Whittaker, Ltd. Company in Hollywood Camera starting in the year 1947 and into the 1950s. The Micro 16 shoots twenty-four exposures on double perforated 16mm film loaded into special cassettes made for the camera. The Micro…
This is a Neubert Neuca, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Feinmechanischen Werkstätten Franz Robert Neubert (Neubert for short) in 1946 in Jena, Germany, which was then known as the ‘Soviet Occupation Zone in Germany’. The Neuca was an attempt to build a lower cost Leica style camera with a…
One of the greatest benefits of the content on this site is the preservation of information regarding photography and old cameras. From my camera reviews to the 100+ Keppler’s Vault articles and Zeiss Historica newsletters to the interviews in my One Hour Photo series, the Rotoloni Report, and the many…
This is an AGFA Selectronic S, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Agfa-Gevaert AG in München, West Germany between the years 1970 and 1976. The Selectronic S was the company’s top of the line rangefinder camera featuring aperture priority automatic exposure, an electronic shutter with a huge range of continuously…
This is a Favor II, a scale focus viewfinder camera produced by Dr. Wöhler Saar in Saarland, West Germany between the years 1950 and 1957. The Favor II is a slight update to the original Favor from 1949 adding an improved shutter and one of two different f/2.8 lenses. The…
This is a Kalimar Regula Reflex 2000 CTL, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera produced by Regula-Werk King KG in Bad Liebenzell, West Germany around the year 1970. This version of the camera was sold in the United States by Kalimar out of St. Louis, Missouri but was also sold…
This is a Mamiya 6, a medium format rangefinder camera produced by Mamiya Camera Co. Ltd in Tokyo, Japan between the years 1989 and 1993. Although sharing a similar name and shooting the same size images, it is not at all related to the earlier Mamiya Six folding camera produced…
