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Category: Reviews
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Konica III (1956)

Konica III (1956)

What is it? This is a Konica III, a 35mm rangefinder made by Konishiroku Photo Industries in Japan between the years of 1956 to 1958.  As the name suggests, this camera is a third in a series of compact, solid bodied, 35mm rangefinder cameras made by Konishiroku.  The entire Konica…

March 6, 2018 January 31, 2024 Photography / Reviews  35mm / 9.0 / Japan / Konica
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Minox 35 ML (1985)

Minox 35 ML (1985)

What is it? This is a Minox 35 ML 35mm compact camera made by Minox GmbH of West Germany starting in 1985.  It was the first model in the Minox 35’s third generation with a redesigned body with a flatter top plate, all new electronics, shutter, and LED viewfinder.  Perhaps…

February 27, 2018 January 31, 2024 Photography / Reviews  35mm / 9.0 / Germany / Minox
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Kochmann Korelle 6×6 (1933)

Kochmann Korelle 6×6 (1933)

What is it? This is a Kochmann Korelle 6×6 strut folding camera made in Dresden, Germany by Franz Kochmann Fabrik Photographischer Apparate starting in 1933.  The Korelle 6×6 was the fourth in a series of strut folding medium format cameras first released by Kochmann in 1931.  As the name implies, the…

February 20, 2018 January 31, 2024 Photography / Reviews  120 / 9.0 / Germany / Kochmann
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Kodak Baby Brownie Special (1939)

Kodak Baby Brownie Special (1939)

What is it? This is a Baby Brownie Special made by the Eastman Kodak Corporation between the years of 1939 and 1952.  This model was an upgrade from the simpler Baby Brownie by adding a fixed telescopic viewfinder an integrated shutter release button, and a cloth carrying handle.  Later models…

February 13, 2018 January 31, 2024 Photography / Reviews  127 / 7.0 / Kodak / USA
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Minolta Hi-Matic E (1971)

Minolta Hi-Matic E (1971)

What is it? This is a Minolta Hi-Matic E 35mm rangefinder camera made by Minolta Camera Co. starting in 1971.  It was one of the last quality Minolta rangefinder cameras with fast sub f/2 lenses before the line was replaced with cheap point and shoot models that were manufactured by third…

February 6, 2018 January 31, 2024 Reviews / Photography  35mm / 9.0 / Japan / Minolta
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Olympus XA2 (1980)

Olympus XA2 (1980)

What is it? This is an Olympus XA2 scale focus point and shoot 35mm camera made by Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. between the years of 1980 and 1986.  It was a simpler and less expensive version of the Olympus XA camera released a year earlier.  The entire XA series was very…

January 30, 2018 January 31, 2024 Reviews / Photography  10.0 / 35mm / Japan / Olympus
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Agat 18K (1988)

Agat 18K (1988)

This is an Agat 18K half-frame 35mm camera made by BelOMO in their Vilejka factory near Minsk, Belarus between the years of 1988 and 1991.  The Agat 18K was an updated model of the earlier Agat 18 offering an improved shutter, a new film speed scale, and a revised lens…

January 26, 2018 January 31, 2024 Photography / Reviews  35mm / 7.0 / BeLOMO / Half / Soviet
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Topcon RE Super (1963)

Topcon RE Super (1963)

This is the Topcon RE Super 35mm SLR made by Tokyo Kogaku of Japan between the years of 1963 and 1972.  It was a historically significant camera as it was the very first 35mm SLR camera to offer through the lens (TTL) metering.  The RE Super was a large and…

January 19, 2018 January 31, 2024 Photography / Reviews  13.0 / 35mm / Japan / Topcon
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Nikon S2 (1955)

Nikon S2 (1955)

This is a Nikon S2, a 35mm rangefinder made by Nippon Kogaku of Tokyo, Japan.  The S2 was a significant upgrade to the original Nikon S rangefinder from 1948 and was made between the years 1955 and 1957 when it was replaced by the Nikon SP.  By the time the…

December 28, 2017 January 31, 2024 Photography / Reviews  16.0 / 35mm / Japan / Nikon
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Kodak Retina Ib – Type 018 (1954)

Kodak Retina Ib – Type 018 (1954)

What is it? This is a Kodak Retina Ib – Type 018 camera built by Kodak AG, the German subsidiary of the Eastman Kodak Company between the years of 1954 and 1957.  It was the successor to the earlier Retina Ia – Type 015 and was sold simultaneously with the Retinas…

December 19, 2017 January 31, 2024 Photography / Reviews  12.0 / 35mm / Germany / Kodak / Retina
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Photavit IV (1947)

Photavit IV (1947)

What is it? This is a Photavit IV 35mm camera made by Photavit-Werk GmbH in Nuremberg, Germany starting in 1947.  The Photavit IV shoots 24mm x 24mm square images on regular 35mm film stock, but it requires the use of proprietary Photavit film cassettes to maintain it’s extremely small size.  Before the…

December 12, 2017 January 31, 2024 Photography / Reviews  35mm / 9.0 / Bolta / Germany
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Kodak Vollenda 48 (1937)

Kodak Vollenda 48 (1937)

What is it? This is a Kodak Vollenda 48, a folding camera that shoots 3cm x 4cm images on 127 film.  It was originally made by Nagel Kamera-Werke and later by Kodak AG in Stuttgart, Germany between the years of 1929 and 1937.  The Vollenda was one of Dr. August…

November 28, 2017 January 31, 2024 Photography / Reviews  127 / 9.0 / Germany / Kodak
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