What is it? This is a Kodak Bantam, a strut folding camera with an entirely Bakelite body, a single speed shutter, doublet lens, and a maximum aperture of f/6.3. This was Kodak’s first camera designed for their new 828 format of film. 828 was originally designed to be an inexpensive roll…
What is it? This is a Kodak Duo Six-20 Series II medium format camera which was designed by Nagel Kamera Werk for Kodak AG by August Nagel. The word “duo” was Kodak’s way of saying “half frame”, meaning the camera too 6cm x 4.5cm images instead of “full frame” 6cm…
This is a Kodak Retina Reflex IV 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera made by Kodak AG in Stuttgart, West Germany between the years 1964 and 1967. The Retina Reflex series was a continuation of the earlier rangefinder Retina, and shared many of the same parts, including the body, lens mount, and…
What is it? This is a Brumberger 35, which is a rebadged Neoca 2S 35mm rangefinder camera made by Neoca Kabushiki Kaisha in Japan in 1955 and 1956. Brumberger Co. Inc. was a photographic equipment retailer, distributor, and importer based in Brooklyn, NY in the 1950s. They often imported and rebadged photographic…
This is a Yashica 35 rangefinder camera made by Yashica Co. Ltd between the years of 1958 – 1959. It was Yashica’s first fixed lens rangefinder, and the first new model released after Yashima’s merger with Nicca which formed the new Yashica company in May 1958. It is a fixed lens…
What is it? This is a Canon EF 35mm single lens reflex camera made by Canon Inc of Japan between the years of 1973 and 1978. It used Canon’s FD lens mount and was their first interchangeable lens SLR with in-body shutter priority automatic exposure. It is unique among FD mount…
What is it? This is a Voigtländer Vitomatic IIa 35mm rangefinder camera made by Voigtländer from 1960 to 1964. The Vitomatic IIa was a compact but very heavy camera that packed quite a bit of features into such a small body. It had a coupled selenium cell exposure meter with a match…
Ernie Kaltenbrunner: Why do you eat people? 1/2 Woman Corpse: Not people. Brains. Ernie Kaltenbrunner: Brains only? 1/2 Woman Corpse: Yes. Ernie Kaltenbrunner: Why? 1/2 Woman Corpse: The PAIN! Ernie Kaltenbrunner: What about the pain? 1/2 Woman Corpse: The pain of being DEAD! Ernie Kaltenbrunner: It hurts… to be dead.…
Whether you are new to shooting film or are a grizzled veteran, you’ve likely heard someone mention a fundamental rule of photography called “The Sunny 16 Rule”. The Sunny 16 rule is something that was developed to help teach exposure calculations in daylight situations without the use of a light meter.…
This is an Olympus OM-2, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera made by the Olympus Corporation from 1975 – 1984. The MD in the name means it has the Motor Drive provision on the bottom plate. The OM-2 was the follow up to the extremely successful OM-1 from 1973. It…
What is it? This is a No.1A Pocket Kodak folding camera made by the Eastman Kodak Company between the years of 1926 and 1932. It used Autographic 116 film which allowed photographers to open a tiny door on the back of the camera and write notes about the exposure which would…
Nikon is the brand of camera I am most fond of, and the one I regularly shoot in my everyday life. So, it might seem peculiar to hear that Nikon cameras are my least favorite to write reviews for. There are a couple of reasons for this, one is that…
