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…
This is a Rokuoh-sha Pearlette, a compact folding camera in the “Vest Pocket” style, made by Rokuoh-sha which was part of Konishiroku, predecessor of Konica. It was built in Yodobashi, Tokyo, Japan between the years 1925 to about 1947. The Pearlette has an all metal body and folds using double…
This is a Durst Automatica, a 35mm viewfinder camera made by Durst Phototechnik SA in Bolzano, Italy between the years 1956 to 1963. The Durst Automatica was an elegantly designed camera that is notable as having one of the earliest implementations of automatic exposure in a 35mm camera, beating a…
This is an Imperial Mark XII Flash, an all plastic scale focus camera built by the Herbert-George Company of Chicago, Illinois starting in 1956. The Imperial Mark XII Flash shoots 2 ¼ inch x 2 ¼ inch images on 620 roll film and has a fixed focus, fixed aperture, and…
This is a Halina 35X Super, a 35mm viewfinder camera produced by Haking Enterprises Ltd. in Hong Kong starting in 1963. It is an update of the original Halina 35X with a revised top plate, a new film advance lever, and a much larger viewfinder. Although larger, it is still…
This is a Nikon E2Ns, a digital SLR produced in joint cooperation between Nikon and Fuji in 1996. The E2Ns is an update to the earlier E2 and E2S models from 1995 expanding the available ISO speeds and improving the camera’s speed. All E2 models shared the same 2/3 inch…
This is a Mamiya Sketch, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Mamiya Optical Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan in 1959. The Sketch was the first ever Japanese camera to shoot 24mm x 24mm images on regular 35mm film, a format that would never gain popularity among Japanese photographers. The Sketch…
This is a Minolta-ER, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera produced by Chiyoda Kogaku Seiko K.K. in 1962. The Minolta-ER was a milestone camera as it was the first Minolta SLR with automatic exposure and was also the company’s first and only leaf shutter SLR. It offered shutter priority automatic…
This is an Almaz (Алмаз) 103, a 35mm single lens reflex camera made by Leningradskoe Optiko Mechanichesckoe Objedinenie, or LOMO for short, between the years 1979 and 1986 in the former Soviet city of Leningrad. There were a total of four models in the Almaz family, but only the 103…
This is an Ensign Selfix 820 Special, a medium format folding camera produced by Barnet Ensign Ross Ltd in London, England starting in 1953. The Selfix 620 Special was a higher end model in a long running line of Selfix folding cameras produced both before and after the war. When…
This is a Zeiss-Ikon Icarex 35 CS, a 35mm single lens reflex camera produced by Zeiss-Ikon in Braunschweig, West Germany starting in 1968. The Icarex series was originally developed in the early 1960s by Voigtländer as the Bessaflex prior to that company’s merger with Zeiss-Ikon in 1965. When the camera…
