This is an Argus CC, a 35mm scale focus camera made by Argus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA between the years 1940 and 1942. The name “CC” is short for “Color Camera” and was named as such as it was designed specifically to shoot Kodak’s new Kodachrome color slide film. …
This is a LOMO MC-A, a compact 35mm point and shoot camera made by the Lomographic Society starting in 2025 and is still being produced. The LOMO MC-A was conceived as a premium point and shoot for the 21st century with an all glass 5-element lens fully automatic camera with…
This is a Fujica GL690 Professional an interchangeable lens medium format rangefinder camera made by Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. starting in January 1974 in Tokyo, Japan. The GL690 was the successor to the earlier G690 which was first released in 1968. This original camera is said to have been…
This is the Konica FT-1, a 35mm SLR produced by the Konica Corporation of Japan between the years 1983 and 1987. The FT-1 is often referred to as the FT-1 Motor as that is how it is displayed on the camera. The inclusion of the word “Motor” highlights the camera’s…
This is an Akarex III, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Apparate und Kamerabau GmbH in Friedrichshafen, West Germany between the years 1953 and 1958. The Akarex III was a premium interchangeable lens rangefinder camera sold alongside the company’s Akarette/Akarelle cameras, but with one pretty major difference. The Akarex III…
This is a Super Pontura, a folding medium format rangefinder camera produced by Balda-Werk Dresden in Dresden, Germany between the years 1938 and 1939. The Super Pontura was a top of the line camera with features like a coupled split image rangefinder with automatic parallax correction, a top plate shutter…
This is a Praktica BC3 electronic, a 35mm SLR camera made by VEB Pentacon Dresden in Dresden, East Germany between the years 1987 and 1988. It used the Praktica Bayonet mount, which was an all new bayonet mount used by B-series Prakticas in the 1980s and 1990s and had a…
This is a Miranda Sensoret, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by the Miranda Camera Company in Tokyo, Japan and was released in July 1972. The Sensoret was the only rangefinder camera made by Miranda, a company exclusively known for SLR cameras. The Sensoret was a compact rangefinder camera with fully…
This is a Leica CL a 35mm rangefinder camera designed by Ernst Leitz, but made by Minolta in Osaka, Japan between the years 1973 and 1976. The Leica CL was the first of several cameras produced through a partnership with Minolta as the two companies worked together, Minolta to gain…
This is a Zeiss-Ikon Contaflex, a 35mm Twin Lens Reflex camera produced by Zeiss-Ikon AG Dresden between the years 1935 and 1940 in Dresden, Germany. The Contaflex TLR is one of only a few TLR style cameras designed for 35mm film and the only one that supports interchangeable lenses. It…
This is a Pentaflex 24×36, a 35mm SLR produced by Tokiwa Seiki K.K. in 1955. The Pentaflex was the first Japanese SLR with an eye-level viewfinder, beating the Orion Miranda T by about four months. Unlike the Miranda however, the Pentaflex does not uses a pentaprism, but rather a system…
This is a Rollei magic II, a twin lens reflex camera made by Rollei-Werke Franke & Heidecke in Braunschweig, West Germany between the years 1962 and 1968. The Rollei magic series was part of the successful lineup of Rolleiflex TLRs but with the addition of automatic exposure. The Rollei magic…
