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…
This is a Pearl River S-201 (珠江, Zhu Jiang S-201), a 35mm SLR camera produced by the Yongguang Instrument Factory in the Chinese province of Sichuan starting in 1974. The Pearl River S-201 was based on the earlier Seagull DF SLR, but replacing the fixed pentaprism with an interchangeable unit…
This is an Argus CC, a 35mm scale focus camera made by Argus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA between the years 1940 and 1942. The name “CC” is short for “Color Camera” and was named as such as it was designed specifically to shoot Kodak’s new Kodachrome color slide film. …
This is a LOMO MC-A, a compact 35mm point and shoot camera made by the Lomographic Society starting in 2025 and is still being produced. The LOMO MC-A was conceived as a premium point and shoot for the 21st century with an all glass 5-element lens fully automatic camera with…
This is a Fujica GL690 Professional an interchangeable lens medium format rangefinder camera made by Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. starting in January 1974 in Tokyo, Japan. The GL690 was the successor to the earlier G690 which was first released in 1968. This original camera is said to have been…
This is the Konica FT-1, a 35mm SLR produced by the Konica Corporation of Japan between the years 1983 and 1987. The FT-1 is often referred to as the FT-1 Motor as that is how it is displayed on the camera. The inclusion of the word “Motor” highlights the camera’s…
This is an Akarex III, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Apparate und Kamerabau GmbH in Friedrichshafen, West Germany between the years 1953 and 1958. The Akarex III was a premium interchangeable lens rangefinder camera sold alongside the company’s Akarette/Akarelle cameras, but with one pretty major difference. The Akarex III…
This is a Super Pontura, a folding medium format rangefinder camera produced by Balda-Werk Dresden in Dresden, Germany between the years 1938 and 1939. The Super Pontura was a top of the line camera with features like a coupled split image rangefinder with automatic parallax correction, a top plate shutter…
This is a Praktica BC3 electronic, a 35mm SLR camera made by VEB Pentacon Dresden in Dresden, East Germany between the years 1987 and 1988. It used the Praktica Bayonet mount, which was an all new bayonet mount used by B-series Prakticas in the 1980s and 1990s and had a…
