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…
This is a Minolta 35 Model IIB, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Chiyoda Kōgaku in Tokyo, Japan in 1958. The Model IIB was the last model in the Minolta 35 series of interchangeable lens rangefinder cameras, dating back to the original model from 1947. Despite being Minolta’s last hurrah…
This is an Alpa Si 2000, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera made by Chinon Industries Inc. between the years 1977 and 1979 for the Swiss manufacturer Pignons S.A. as a cost effective alternative to that company’s high end hand built Alpa cameras. The Alpa Si 2000 is based off…
This is a Miranda T, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera made by the Orion Camera Company in Tokyo, Japan starting in 1955. The Orion Miranda T is a historically significant camera for a number of reasons. It was not only the first camera made by what would become the…
This is a Kinax III, a medium format folding camera produced by Kinax S.A. in Paris, France between the years 1951 and 1956. The Kinax III was a tri-format camera, shooting eight 6cm x 9cm, twelve 6cm x 6cm, or sixteen 6cm x 4cm exposures on 620 format roll film…
This is a Pentax Super A, a 35mm SLR camera made by Asahi Optical Co. Ltd in Tokyo, Japan between the years 1983 and 1987. When sold in North America, the Pentax Super A was called the Super Program. The only difference between the two is that the Super A…
This is the GOMZ Junost (Юность), a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Gosudarstvennyi Optiko-Mekhanicheskii Zavod (GOMZ for short) near Leningrad, Russia between the years 1957 and 1961. The Junost was an unusually styled camera which looked unlike any other Soviet camera of the era, with a strange combination of old…
This is a Master Reflex, a medium format Single Lens Reflex camera made by VEB Werkstätte für Feinmechanik und Optik (WEFO) starting in 1950. The Master Reflex shoots 6cm x 6cm images on regular 120 format roll film. The name “Master Reflex” was what the camera was called when exported…
