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Konica Z-Up 80RC Limited (1989)

Konica Z-Up 80RC Limited (1989)

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This is a Konica Z-Up 80RC Limited, a fully automatic “bridge” camera made by Konica of Japan starting in 1989.  This camera was the top model in Konica’s long line of Z-Up cameras all featuring zoom lenses in fully featured point and shoot cameras.  There were several variants of the…

March 29, 2022 March 29, 2022 Photography / Reviews  35mm / Japan / Konica
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Petri Color 35 (1968)

Petri Color 35 (1968)

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This is a Petri Color 35, a compact 35mm point and shoot camera made by Petri Camera K.K. starting in 1968.  The Petri Color 35 was the first in a series of Petri Color cameras and is the most desirable as it offers full manual control in a compact and…

March 22, 2022 March 22, 2022 Photography / Reviews  35mm / Japan / Petri
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AGFA Selectronic 3 (1980)

AGFA Selectronic 3 (1980)

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

KW Reflex Box (1933)

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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 March 8, 2022 Photography / Reviews  120 / Germany / KW
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Klosterlechfeld Riwa (unknown)

Klosterlechfeld Riwa (unknown)

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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
Continue Reading"Klosterlechfeld Riwa (unknown)"
OPL Focasport II C (1963)

OPL Focasport II C (1963)

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

Graflex 22 Model 200 (1952)

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

Corfield Periflex 3 (1957)

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

Canon Original (Hansa Canon) (1935)

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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)

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

Seagull 203 (1964)

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

Ihagee Night Exakta B (1934)

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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 27, 2022 Photography / Reviews  127 / Germany / Ihagee
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