This is a Rollei 35RF, a 35mm rangefinder camera made in Japan by Cosina Co., Ltd. for Rollei Fototechnic starting in 2002. The Rollei 35RF has a sister camera also made by Cosina called the Voigtländer Bessa R2, with almost the same specifications, other than different cosmetics and a slightly…
This is a Fujita 66SL, a medium format interchangeable lens Single Lens Reflex camera made by the Fujita Optical Company in Tokyo, Japan between the years 1958 and 1960. The Fujita 66SL is an evolution of the original Fujita 66 from 1956 with the biggest change being the addition of…
This camera is called the Wica, it is a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Wiener Camerawerkstätte (Vienna Camera Workshop) in Vienna, Austria in 1948. The Wica is a loose copy of the Leica II rangefinder as it shares some similar design elements, but is otherwise a very different camera. The…
This is a Widelux Model F6, a 35mm panoramic swing lens camera made in Japan by Panon Camera Shoko Co., Ltd. starting in 1970. The Widelux is part of a series of panoramic cameras which all expose 24mm x 59mm images with a 126 degree angle of view on regular…
Another year is over, which means another year end wrap up! The best news this year was that 2023 seemed to be the first year post COVID that felt like a normal year. 2020 and 2021 clearly weren’t, and in 2022 things did get a lot better, but there was…
This is an Adox Adrette, a 35mm scale focus camera produced by Dr. C. Schleussner Fotowerke GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany between the years 1939 and 1948. The Adox Adrette is a variant of the Wirgin Edinex, a camera first produced in 1935 by Wirgin in Wiesbaden, Germany. In 1939, the…
This is a Royal 35-M, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Daiou Shashin Kōgaku in Tokyo, Japan starting in 1957. The Royal 35-M was one of six models made under the Royal name, and many others rebadged for sale with brand names such as Wirgin, Hanimex, Brumberger, Luxall, and others. …
This is a Fuji FP-1 Professional, a folding instant film camera made by Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan starting in 1987. The FP-1 was part of Fuji’s Fotorama series of instant film products released in the 1980s. The FP-1 shoots ten 3¼ x 4¼” images on peel…
This is a Leica IIIg, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Ernst Leitz Wetzlar in Wetzlar, West Germany between the years 1957 and 1967. The IIIg was the last version of the original screw mount Leica to be released and was the successor to the IIIf adding several new features…
This is an Olympus iS-2, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex “Bridge” camera, produced by Olympus Optical Co., LTD in Tokyo, Japan starting in 1991. After the manual focus Olympus OM-system, Olympus never made a serious 35mm SLR with auto focus. The Olympus iS series was created to fill that gap…
This is an Exakta VX1000, a 35mm single lens reflex camera made by Ihagee Kamera-Werk AG in Dresden, East Germany between the years 1967 to 1970. The Exakta VX1000 was an evolution of the original Kine Exakta dating back to 1936 featuring the same bayonet lens mount, left handed control…
This is a Canon VT de luxe, a 35mm rangefinder made by Canon in Tokyo, Japan starting in May 1957. There were three different versions of the Canon VT de luxe, all with subtle changes and identified internally as the VTD, VTDZ, and VTDM. This camera is the first version,…
