This is a Fujica 35-ML rangefinder camera made by Fuji Photo Film Co. starting in 1958. Fuji would use the name “Fujica” on all of their film cameras until the late 1970s. It was an amalgam of the words “Fuji” and “camera”. The ML was otherwise identical to the Fujica 35-M released…
What is it? This is a Yashica Lynx-14 35mm rangefinder camera made in Japan starting in 1965. The Lynx was Yashica’s top of the line 35mm rangefinder series in the 1960s. The first two models, the Lynx 1000 and 5000 both had fast f/1.8 lenses with modern light meters. Then…
This is a Clarus MS-35 camera made by the Clarus Camera Manufacturing Co. based out of Minneapolis, MN. This was the first and only camera made by Clarus and was sold between the years of 1946 and 1952. The Clarus MS-35 was an ambitious 35mm rangefinder that bore a striking…
This is a Certo Dollina II rangefinder camera made in Dresden, Germany by Certo Camera Werk. The Dollina II was first introduced in 1936, only a year after the Dollina I which did not have a rangefinder, making the Dollina series the second cameras ever made designed to use Kodak’s new…
When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth… This is a followup to an earlier post I spontaneously wrote back in August called “The Cameras of the Dead”. In that article, I applied a tongue in cheek analogy to George Romero’s 1968 classic “The Night of…
What is it? This is a Voigtländer Rollfilm folding camera that was made between the years of 1927 – 1931. The Rollfilm was one of Voigtländer’s first attempts at a camera that used roll film. I guess they didn’t think it was necessary to give it a unique sounding name, and just…
This is a Yashica 44 Twin Lens Reflex camera made by the Yashica Company, Ltd, in 1958. The Yashica 44 is designed for 127 film unlike most other TLRs of the time which used either 120 or 620 film. Using 127 film, this camera made images that were 4cm x 4cm,…
This is a Miranda D 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera made in 1960 by Miranda Camera K.K. Although made in Japan, around the time this model was current, most Miranda cameras were not sold in the Japanese domestic market. This camera was most likely sold in the United States by…
What is it? This is a No. 2 Brownie Model D box camera, made by the Eastman-Kodak company around 1914. The name “Brownie” has been used by Kodak on a huge variety of inexpensive cameras starting with the very first model in 1900, all the way to Bakelite bodied cameras…
What is it? These are two different variants of the No. 1 Panoram- Kodak. The model on the left is the Model D, and the one on the right is an earlier version, simply called the No. 1 Panoram-Kodak. Both cameras were designed for 105 format roll film, and took…
…they’re coming to get you, Barbara… George Romero’s 1968 film, “The Night of the Living Dead” is a movie almost anyone with an interest in cinema is familiar with. It doesn’t matter if you’re a fan of horror or not, most everyone has at least heard of this groundbreaking low-budget…
This is a Yashica Minister-D, which is a 35mm rangefinder camera made in Japan in 1963. This model was fourth in the Minister line which represented Yashicas’s mid-rage of 35mm rangefinders. The Minister-D signaled a shift to CdS based light meters as opposed to the earlier selenium cell meters. It had…
