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Category: Reviews
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Aires Penta 35 (1959)

Aires Penta 35 (1959)

This is an Aires Penta 35, a single lens reflex 35mm film camera produced by Aires Camera Ind. Co., LTD between 1959 and 1961.  The Penta 35 was the first and only SLR camera produced by Aires before they went out of business and was seen as a last ditch…

September 2, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  35mm / 7.0 / Aires / Japan
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Ferrania Condor I (1947)

Ferrania Condor I (1947)

This is a Ferrania Condor I, a 35mm rangefinder camera made in Italy by Officine Galileo and distributed by Ferrania starting in 1947.  Models of the Condor exist both with and without the Ferrania branding, but otherwise are identical.  The Condor was a simple, but well built fixed lens rangefinder…

August 31, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  11.0 / 35mm / Ferrania / Italy
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AGFA Memo (1939)

AGFA Memo (1939)

This is an AGFA Memo, a compact folding camera made in Binghamton, New York by the AGFA ANSCO Corporation starting in 1939.  This version of the Memo is a less common variant that shoots 18mm x 24mm single frame images on ANSCO’s Memo film, which is very similar to AGFA’s…

August 24, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  12.0 / AGFA / Half / Rapid / USA
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Carl Zeiss Werra (1954)

Carl Zeiss Werra (1954)

This is the Werra, a 35mm scale focus camera produced in Jena, East Germany by VEB Carl Zeiss Jena starting in 1954.  This is the first version in a long line of Werra cameras that were produced in a variety of configurations until 1968.  Later versions of the Werra came…

August 17, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  10.0 / 35mm / Germany / Zeiss
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KW Prakti (1961)

KW Prakti (1961)

This is a KW Prakti, a fully automatic 35mm camera produced by VEB Kamera und Kinowerke Dresden from 1961 to 1964.  The Prakti is notable as being one of the first cameras to not only have an internal electric motor for advancing the film and cocking the shutter, but also…

August 10, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  11.0 / 35mm / Germany / KW
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Minolta AF-Sv “The Talker” (1984)

Minolta AF-Sv “The Talker” (1984)

This is a Minolta AF-Sv, a 35mm point and shoot, fully automatic camera made in Japan by Minolta starting in 1984.  Known by it’s nickname “the Talker”, the AF-Sv is notable as having a voice feature in which the camera can play back voice alerts as reminders for things like…

August 5, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  35mm / 8.0 / Japan / Minolta
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Suzuki Press Van (1953)

Suzuki Press Van (1953)

This is a Suzuki Press Van, a medium format folding camera made by Suzuki Kōgaku Kōgyō K.K. in 1953.  The Press Van is dual format, and can shoot both 6cm x 6cm images on 120 roll film and 24mm x 36mm images on 35mm film.  This is the first version…

August 4, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  120 / 13.0 / Japan / Suzuki
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Premier Instrument Kardon (1947)

Premier Instrument Kardon (1947)

This is a “military” Kardon 35mm rangefinder camera, produced by the Premier Instrument Corp in New York City between the years 1947 and 1954.  The Kardon was originally developed as an “American Leica” after imports of cameras from Germany had ceased during World War II.  Charged with building the camera…

July 27, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  13.0 / 35mm / Kodak / Premiere / USA
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Second Look: Kodak Bantam Special

Second Look: Kodak Bantam Special

Mistakes were made…again! Back in January, I posted a second look review of the Zeiss-Ikon Contessa 35, a camera that I had previously reviewed and drew some incorrect conclusions about due to me having a camera in less than stellar operational condition.  A reader of this site named Peter noticed…

July 22, 2021 July 23, 2021 Photography / Reviews  828 / Germany / Kodak
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Alfred C. Kemper Kombi (1893)

Alfred C. Kemper Kombi (1893)

This is a Kemper Kombi, an early miniature roll film box camera and graphoscope produced by the Alfred C. Kemper Company of Chicago, Illinois, USA starting in 1893.  The Kombi used a proprietary paper backed roll film developed specifically for it by the Eastman Kodak company and shot up to…

July 20, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  11.0 / Kemper / USA
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Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash (1950)

Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash (1950)

This is a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash, an all plastic box camera produced by the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New York between the years 1950 and 1961.  It was an update to a non-flash version that was released in 1949.  All Brownie Hawkeyes take 6cm x 6cm images on…

July 15, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  11.0 / 620 / Kodak / USA
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Argus C4 Geiss (1954)

Argus C4 Geiss (1954)

This is an Argus C4, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Argus in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  This particular example has what’s called the Geiss modification offered by Argus from 1954 to 1956, which for $10 they would send the camera to a Chicago company called Geiss where it’s lens would…

July 13, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  10.0 / 35mm / Argus / USA
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