This is a Voigtländer Vito III, a 35mm folding rangefinder camera, made by Voigtländer AG in Braunschweig, West Germany starting in 1950. The Vito III was the last and best featured of their folding Vito line and the only one available with the Ultron f/2 lens. With the exception of…
This is an Akarette II, a 35mm interchangeable lens scale focus camera produced by Apparate und Kamerabau GmbH in Friedrichshafen, West Germany between the years 1950 and 1954. The Akarette II was one of the higher featured models in a lineup of similarly designed cameras from 1947 to 1962. The…
This is a Samsung Evoca 70 Neo, a 35mm point and shoot camera made in 2002 by Samsung Techwin in South Korea. This is the North American version of the Samsung Vega 700 which is what it was called in other markets. The Samsung Evoca 70 Neo is a rather…
This is a Certo Dollina III, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Certo Camera Work Dresden in 1938. The Dollina III was the most advanced in the Dollina line of 35mm cameras, improving on the earlier models with a larger body with a built in coupled rangefinder. The Dollina series…
This is a Jena Contax, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Carl Zeiss Jena, in Saalfeld, Germany under direction of the Soviet government after World War II. In the time leading up to Germany’s loss in the war, the Soviet Union had eyed the Zeiss-Ikon Contax for war reparations and…
This is an Ontoflex Modele B, a Twin Lens Reflex camera made by G. Cornu in Paris, France starting in 1934 to around 1940. The Ontoflex has an all metal body and shoots 6cm x 9cm images on Kodak’s 620 roll film, via a rotating film back which allowed it…
This is a Voigtländer Prominent, a folding bed rangefinder camera made by Voigtländer & Sohn AG in Braunschweig, Germany starting in 1932. The Prominent shoots both 6cm x 9cm and 4.5cm x 6cm images on 120 format roll film. Shooting of the smaller exposures requires a removable mask to be…
10 years of camera reviews… I could just end this post here and I’ll have said all that I probably need to, but if there’s one thing that writing camera reviews for the past decade has taught me, is that I am not good at brevity. I’ve shared the origin…
This is a Detrola 400, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by the Detrola Corp in Detroit, MI, USA between the years 1940 and 1941. The Detrola 400 was the most advanced camera produced by Detrola and would turn out to be its last before the company stopped producing cameras in…
This is an Opema II, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Meopta in Přerov, Czechoslovakia starting in 1954. The Opema II featured a coupled rangefinder, cloth focal plane shutter with top 1/500 speed and an interchangeable 38mm thread mount for changing lenses. Although very similar to the 39mm thread mount…
This is a Konica Recorder DD, a half frame 35mm point and shoot camera made by Konica of Japan starting in 1985. The “DD” in the model name indicates that this was a version of the camera with a data back as compared with the non DD model which was…
This review is part of the Cameras of the Dead series which features dead cameras that I’ve wanted to review that either didn’t work, or was otherwise unable to shoot. In the past, these reviews used to come out in a set of three every Halloween or what I called…
