This is an Aires 35-V, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Aires Camera Ind. Co., LTD in 1958. The Aires 35-V was part of Aires’s line of 35mm rangefinder cameras and is the only one with an interchangeable lens mount. Only four lenses were made using it’s proprietary lens mount,…
This is a Zeiss-Ikon Cocarette 519/2, a folding bed camera that shoots 6cm x 9cm images on 120 roll film. The Cocarette was considered a premium model in Zeiss-Ikon’s post merger catalog. Originally a Contessa-Nettel model that was first produced around 1919, the Cocarette was continued under the Zeiss-Ikon brand…
This is a Konica Auto S1.6, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Konishiroku Photo Industries starting in 1967. The Auto S1.6 is a revised version of the earlier Auto S2 with a slightly faster 7-element f/1.6 lens, an improved shutter, and a flash hot shoe. It was the final model…
This is a Fuji K-28, a manual focus 35mm point and shoot camera that was part of Fuji’s line up of construction cameras that came in rugged, dust and weather sealed bodies that were sold in Japan only. This class of camera was very popular at the time and are…
This is a Canon A35 F, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Canon of Japan starting in March 1978. The A35 F is notable as being the last manual focus rangefinder camera made by Canon, and the only rangefinder with an in-body electronic flash. This camera is part of Canon’s…
This is a KMZ Ajax-12, a subminiature camera that shoots images 18mm tall by 24mm wide on bulk loaded unperforated 21mm film. The Ajax-12 was built specifically for the Soviet Union’s intelligence agencies and is commonly referred to by it’s KGB name, which is F-21. It uses a spring wound…
This is an Olympus Pen F, a single lens reflex camera that shoots 18mm x 24mm half-frame on regular 35mm film. The Pen F is part of the Olympus Pen series of half-frame cameras first introduced in 1959. The Pen F, like the original Pen was designed by Maitani Yoshihisa…
This is an AGFA Flexilette, a 35mm twin lens reflex camera produced by AGFA Camera-Werk Muenchen starting in 1960. The Flexilette was also called the AGFA Reflex in other markets and is part of the Optima line of 35mm cameras produced from the late 1950s through the mid 60s. The…
2020 has been a complete and utter disaster of a year. For myself and probably everyone I know, this has been the worst year ever. A year that should have never happened, and assuming we all survive it, a year in which for the rest of our lives, we will…
This review is part of the Cameras of the Dead series which I have been publishing every year on Halloween and “Halfway to” Halloween, featuring three cameras that I’ve wanted to review that either didn’t work, or was otherwise unable to shoot. I am republishing each of those individual reviews…
This review is part of the Cameras of the Dead series which I have been publishing every year on Halloween and “Halfway to” Halloween, featuring three cameras that I’ve wanted to review that either didn’t work, or was otherwise unable to shoot. I am republishing each of those individual reviews…
This is an Asahiflex IIa, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera, produced by Asahi Optical Company from February 1955 to April 1957. The model IIa was an upgrade to the original Asahiflex from 1952 featuring a front mounted slow speed dial with speeds down to 1/2 second, and an instant…
