This is Toko Tone, a subminiature camera made by Tōyō Kōki Seisakusho in Tokyo, Japan starting in 1948. The Toko Tone is part of a class of cameras often called “Midget” cameras, named after a simpler model called the Misuzu Shōkai originally released in 1937. All “Midget” style cameras use…
This is an Argus A-Four, a 35mm viewfinder camera produced by Argus in Ann Arbor, Michigan between the years 1953 and 1956. The A-Four would have taken place in Argus’s lineup formerly occupied by the A-series with the last model being discontinued in 1951. It was an all new camera…
This is an Ansco / GAF Memo II Automatic, a 35mm half frame camera produced by Ricoh in 1964 for Ansco of Binghamton, New York. The Memo II Automatic is a name variant of the Ricoh Auto Half which had been in production since 1963, and is also an updated…
This is a Beacon Two-Twenty Five, an all-plastic medium format camera made by Whitehouse Products Inc, in Brooklyn, New York, USA between the years 1950 and 1958. It is a simple camera with a single speed shutter, fixed focus, collapsible doublet lens, and an aperture setting for Dull and Bright…
This is a Freedom Zoom 105i, a 35mm point and shoot camera, made by Minolta starting in 1990. The same exact camera was also sold overseas as the Minolta Riva Zoom 105i but otherwise the cameras are identical. Featuring a unique shape that sorta resembles a cross between an alarm…
This is a Minolta X-700, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera made by Minolta of Japan between the years 1981 and 1999. It was the last advanced manual focus Minolta SLR before the auto focus area and had a large number of features including both Aperture Priority and Programmed Auto…
This is an Olympus-35 SP, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Olympus Optical Co. Ltd., in Tokyo, Japan, between the years 1969 and 1976. When it was released, the 35 SP was one of the most advanced 35mm rangefinder cameras ever built, with features such as dual spot and average…
This is a Super Baldina, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Balda-Werk Bünde in Bünde, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, starting in 1954. This was the second camera released by Balda with the name Super Baldina, the first being a completely unrelated folding camera produced in prewar East Germany between 1938…
This is KMZ Drug (Друг), a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Krasnogorski Mekhanicheskii Zavod (KMZ) in the former Soviet Union between the years of 1959 and 1962. During it’s development, a prototype of the camera was made called the Zorki 7, but it’s name was changed to Drug, which translates…
This is a Noblex 135 S, a 35mm swing lens panoramic camera made by Kamera Werk Dresden, in Dresden, Germany starting in 1992. The Noblex was designed by John Noble whose father owned KW Dresden prior to World War II. After the fall of East Germany, Noble returned and reacquired…
This is a Praktica VLC 3, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera made by VEB Pentacon in Dresden, East Germany between the years 1976 and 1981. The Praktica VLC 3 was the successor to the short lived Exakta RTL 1000 and part of the 3rd Generation of the Praktica L-series. …
This is a Voigtländer VF 135, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Rollei-Werke Franke & Heidecke GmbH in Singapore starting in 1976. The VF 135 is a near-copy of the Rollei XF35 from 1974, omitting that camera’s Flashmatic exposure system, and having a revised top plate. The VF 135 features…
