This is a KMZ Ajax-12, a subminiature camera that shoots images 18mm tall by 24mm wide on bulk loaded unperforated 21mm film. The Ajax-12 was built specifically for the Soviet Union’s intelligence agencies and is commonly referred to by it’s KGB name, which is F-21. It uses a spring wound…
I was born in 1978, which means I was six years old when Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom came out. I honestly can’t remember if I saw this movie in the theater, but by the time it would have come out on cable or home video, it was…
This is an Olympus Pen F, a single lens reflex camera that shoots 18mm x 24mm half-frame on regular 35mm film. The Pen F is part of the Olympus Pen series of half-frame cameras first introduced in 1959. The Pen F, like the original Pen was designed by Maitani Yoshihisa…
The Kodak Ektra is one of the most interesting cameras of any I’ve ever written about on this site. In July 2019, I was able to get my hands on a working example and I wrote an in depth review of it sharing some of the only images shot with…
This is an AGFA Flexilette, a 35mm twin lens reflex camera produced by AGFA Camera-Werk Muenchen starting in 1960. The Flexilette was also called the AGFA Reflex in other markets and is part of the Optima line of 35mm cameras produced from the late 1950s through the mid 60s. The…
2020 has been a complete and utter disaster of a year. For myself and probably everyone I know, this has been the worst year ever. A year that should have never happened, and assuming we all survive it, a year in which for the rest of our lives, we will…
This review is part of the Cameras of the Dead series which I have been publishing every year on Halloween and “Halfway to” Halloween, featuring three cameras that I’ve wanted to review that either didn’t work, or was otherwise unable to shoot. I am republishing each of those individual reviews…
A couple of weeks ago, I shared an article that Popular Photography wrote in December 1937 about New York street photographer Arthur “Weegee” Fellig who at the time was an unknown photographer who had a knack for capturing some of the darkest moments of humanity on the streets of New…
This review is part of the Cameras of the Dead series which I have been publishing every year on Halloween and “Halfway to” Halloween, featuring three cameras that I’ve wanted to review that either didn’t work, or was otherwise unable to shoot. I am republishing each of those individual reviews…
This is an Asahiflex IIa, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera, produced by Asahi Optical Company from February 1955 to April 1957. The model IIa was an upgrade to the original Asahiflex from 1952 featuring a front mounted slow speed dial with speeds down to 1/2 second, and an instant…
This review is part of the Cameras of the Dead series which I have been publishing every year on Halloween and “Halfway to” Halloween, featuring three cameras that I’ve wanted to review that either didn’t work, or was otherwise unable to shoot. I am republishing each of those individual reviews…
This review is part of the Cameras of the Dead series which I have been publishing every year on Halloween and “Halfway to” Halloween, featuring three cameras that I’ve wanted to review that either didn’t work, or was otherwise unable to shoot. I am republishing each of those individual reviews…
