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Category: Photography
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Topcon PR and DeJur Dekon SR (1960)

Topcon PR and DeJur Dekon SR (1960)

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.  This April, I will not be doing my usual “Halfway to Halloween” triple-feature, but didn’t want you to think I…

April 29, 2021 April 29, 2021 Photography / Reviews  35mm / Japan / Topcon
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Yashica T AF (1985)

Yashica T AF (1985)

This is a Yashica T AF, a 35mm fully automatic point and shoot camera made by Kyocera of Japan starting in 1985.  The Yashica T was the first in a long running Yashica T-series of cameras that all came with a Carl Zeiss Tessar T* lens.  At the time this…

April 27, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  35mm / 8.0 / Japan / Yashica
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Schneider-Kreuznach Tele-Xenar 135mm f/3.5

Schneider-Kreuznach Tele-Xenar 135mm f/3.5

In my quest for cameras to review for this site, I’ll occasionally stumble upon some interesting lenses that I pick up to pair with the film cameras they are designed for, but sometimes I like to see what they can do digitally. There are a huge number of sites filled…

April 22, 2021 April 22, 2021 Photography / Reviews  Germany / Lens / Schneider
Continue Reading"Schneider-Kreuznach Tele-Xenar 135mm f/3.5"
Tower 41 (1962)

Tower 41 (1962)

This is the Tower 41, a 35mm rangefinder camera built in Japan by Mamiya Optical Co., Ltd. for the Sears Roebuck and Company starting in 1961.  The Tower 41 is similar to the earlier Tower 39, also built by Mamiya, but adding a combined coincident image rangefinder and a faster…

April 20, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  35mm / 8.0 / Japan / Mamiya / Sears
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Keppler’s Vault 90: Multi-Coated Lenses

Keppler’s Vault 90: Multi-Coated Lenses

Lens coatings are good.  If a single coating is good, then multiple coatings must be better. This concludes the extent of my knowledge about lens coatings.  I suspect I am not alone as a good number of digital and film photographers and collectors probably have about the same understanding as…

April 15, 2021 April 15, 2021 Keppler's Vault / Photography  Keppler's Vault
Continue Reading"Keppler’s Vault 90: Multi-Coated Lenses"
Kodak Instamatic 500 (1963)

Kodak Instamatic 500 (1963)

This is a Kodak Instamatic 500, a fully manual, but high end Instamatic camera built in Stuttgart, Germany by Kodak AG between the years 1963 to 1965.  The Instamatic 500 was one of Kodak’s few Instamatic cameras built in Germany, by the same German division responsible for their premium Retina…

April 13, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  12.0 / 126 / Germany / Kodak
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Keppler’s Vault 89: 1959 Philadelphia Photo Show

Keppler’s Vault 89: 1959 Philadelphia Photo Show

There was once a time where every year there was at least one big photo show where camera and lens makers would set up elaborate booths and roll out their latest and greatest new products, showing them off to dealers and the general public evoking an early form of “pre-internet-GAS”. …

April 8, 2021 April 8, 2021 Keppler's Vault / Photography  Keppler's Vault
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Samsung SR4000 (1997)

Samsung SR4000 (1997)

This is a Samsung SR4000, a 35mm single lens reflex camera made by Samsung in South Korea from 1997 to 2001.  The SR4000 is the North American name of the Korea only Samsung Kenox GX-1.  It was Samsung’s first and only 35mm SLR, which they produced during the short period…

April 6, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  35mm / 6.0 / Korea / Samsung
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Welta Weltini II (1938)

Welta Weltini II (1938)

This is a Welta Weltini II, a 35mm folding rangefinder camera made by Welta Kamerawerke in Freital, Germany between the years 1938 and 1941.  The Weltini II is similar to the Weltini I with a different top plate and cosmetics but is otherwise the same.  Both cameras were rangefinder equipped…

April 1, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  12.0 / 35mm / Germany / Welta
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Canon Dial 35-2 (1968)

Canon Dial 35-2 (1968)

This is a Canon Dial 35-2, a compact scale focus camera made by Canon of Japan which shoots 18mm x 24mm half frame images on regular 35mm film.  The Canon Dial has not only a very unique body with a shutter priority automatic exposure metering system shaped like a rotary…

March 30, 2021 June 11, 2025 Photography / Reviews  11.0 / 35mm / Canon / Half / Japan
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Keppler’s Vault 88: The First Kodak

Keppler’s Vault 88: The First Kodak

There have been many firsts in the history of photography.  First photographic process, first use of film, first box camera, first SLR, first digital camera, etc. Of all those firsts, in 1888, a new camera made it’s debut that was the first of it’s kind, first to use a new…

March 25, 2021 March 25, 2021 Keppler's Vault / Photography  Keppler's Vault / Kodak
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Petri Penta (1959)

Petri Penta (1959)

This is a Petri Penta, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera made in Japan by Kuribayashi Shashin Kōgyō K.K. starting in September 1959.  The Penta was Kuribayashi’s first 35mm SLR as they had been producing a line of scale focus and rangefinder cameras for about ten years prior.  The Penta…

March 23, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  10.0 / 35mm / Japan / Petri
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