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Category: Reviews
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AGFA Selectronic 3 (1980)

AGFA Selectronic 3 (1980)

This is an AGFA Selectronic 3, a 35mm SLR made in Japan by Chinon Industries for AGFA, starting in 1980.  The Selectronic 3 was a rebadge of the Chinon CE-4 and shared almost all of that camera’s features, including it’s Pentax K-bayonet lens mount and aperture priority automatic exposure.  The…

March 15, 2022 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  10.0 / 35mm / AGFA / Japan
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KW Reflex Box (1933)

KW Reflex Box (1933)

This is a KW Reflex Box, a single lens reflex box camera made by Kamera-Werkstätten Guthe & Thorsch in Dresden, Germany between the years 1933 and 1938.  The KW Reflex Box was an early form of a Spiegelreflexkamera which put a moving reflex mirror and waist level viewfinder inside of…

March 8, 2022 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  120 / 9.0 / Germany / KW
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Klosterlechfeld Riwa (unknown)

Klosterlechfeld Riwa (unknown)

This is a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera called the Riwa.  It is a one of a kind prototype that was likely produced sometime before 1945 in Klosterlichfeld, West Germany.  It features an interchangeable 39mm screw mount with a 5cm f/2 Rodenstock Heligon lens and a focal plane shutter with…

March 3, 2022 March 3, 2022 Photography / Reviews  35mm / Germany / Prototype
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OPL Focasport II C (1963)

OPL Focasport II C (1963)

This is a Focasport II C, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Optique & Précision de Levallois, in Levallois-Perret, France starting in 1963.  The Focasport II C is part of a long line of Foca and Focasport models, featuring a coupled coincident image rangefinder, coupled selenium exposure meter, a between…

March 1, 2022 February 10, 2024 Photography / Reviews  10.0 / 35mm / France / OPL
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Graflex 22 Model 200 (1952)

Graflex 22 Model 200 (1952)

This is a Graflex 22 Model 200, a Twin Lens Reflex camera produced by Graflex, Inc of Rochester, NY starting in 1952.  There were a total of three different versions of the Graflex 22, the models 200, 400, and 400F all of which shot 6cm x 6cm images on 120…

February 22, 2022 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  120 / 9.0 / Graflex / USA
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Corfield Periflex 3 (1957)

Corfield Periflex 3 (1957)

This is a Corfield Periflex 3, an innovative 35mm reflex camera produced by K.G. Corfield Ltd., of Wolverhampton, England between the years 1957 and 1960.  The Periflex 3 was part of a series of cameras that use a small reflex mirror and focusing prism mounted to a mechanism that can…

February 15, 2022 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  13.0 / 35mm / Corfield / England
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Canon Original (Hansa Canon) (1935)

Canon Original (Hansa Canon) (1935)

This is a Canon Original, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Seiki Kogaku Kenkyujo in Tokyo, Japan between the years 1935 to 1940.  These cameras were the first models made by the company that would eventually become Canon.  They are an evolution of an earlier Kwanon prototype that was never…

February 8, 2022 February 8, 2022 Photography / Reviews  35mm / Canon / Japan
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Great Wall DF-3 (1984)

Great Wall DF-3 (1984)

This is a Great Wall DF-3, a medium format SLR made by the Beijing Camera Company in Beijing China starting in 1984.  The DF-3 shoots 6cm x 6cm images on 120 format roll film and is part of the DF-series of SLRs that are loosely inspired by the KW Pilot…

February 3, 2022 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  120 / 9.0 / China / Great Wall
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Seagull 203 (1964)

Seagull 203 (1964)

This is a Seagull 203, a medium format rangefinder camera made by the Shanghai Camera Factory in Shanghai, China starting in 1964.  The Seagull 203 is very similar to, but not an exact copy of the AGFA Super Isolette, featuring many of that camera’s features, but adding a film advance…

February 1, 2022 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  10.0 / 120 / China / Seagull
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Ihagee Night Exakta B (1934)

Ihagee Night Exakta B (1934)

This is an Ihagee Night Exakta B, a single lens reflex camera made by Ihagee Kamerawerk Dresden starting in 1934.  The very first Exakta cameras shot 6.5cm x 4cm images on 127 “Vest Pocket” format roll film, sharing a similar shape body to the later 35mm “Kine” Exaktas that followed…

January 27, 2022 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  127 / 15.0 / Germany / Ihagee
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Yashica Sequelle (1962)

Yashica Sequelle (1962)

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 review was originally part of a three camera review published on October 29, 2021 in the 10th edition of…

January 25, 2022 January 25, 2022 Photography / Reviews  35mm / Dead / Half / Japan / Yashica
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Exakta RTL 1000 (1969)

Exakta RTL 1000 (1969)

This is an Exakta RTL 1000, a 35mm SLR camera made by VEB Pentacon Dresden between the years 1969 to 1973.  Despite the Exakta name and sharing the original Exakta mount, this camera bears very little resemblance to earlier Exaktas, in fact, it was built alongside the Praktica L-series also…

January 24, 2022 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  35mm / Dead / Germany / Pentacon
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