This is an Ontoflex Modele B, a Twin Lens Reflex camera made by G. Cornu in Paris, France starting in 1934 to around 1940. The Ontoflex has an all metal body and shoots 6cm x 9cm images on Kodak’s 620 roll film, via a rotating film back which allowed it…
The Camerosity Podcast returns with Episode 85 where we wander back into the wonderful world of high end camera auctions. For this episode, we went all the way to Vienna, Austria and invited Jo Geier from Mint and Rare Cameras and the Wetzlar Camera Auctions. In addition to Jo, we…
We are back with the first new episode of 2025! The Camerosity crew hopes you had a good start to the new year. Unfortunately, the episode we had planned to have Jeff and Gabe from the I Dream of Cameras podcast had to be postponed due to the wildfires in…
The end of the year is almost here, and the guys and I were getting that itch to record something, so on a dreary Boxing Day, we all got together for a spontaneous episode to catch up on what we’ve been doing. We did not post the join link this…
This is a Voigtländer Prominent, a folding bed rangefinder camera made by Voigtländer & Sohn AG in Braunschweig, Germany starting in 1932. The Prominent shoots both 6cm x 9cm and 4.5cm x 6cm images on 120 format roll film. Shooting of the smaller exposures requires a removable mask to be…
10 years of camera reviews… I could just end this post here and I’ll have said all that I probably need to, but if there’s one thing that writing camera reviews for the past decade has taught me, is that I am not good at brevity. I’ve shared the origin…
When you collect vintage film cameras, if they don’t work, just send it out for a CLA and some technician will take it apart, clean it up, lube what needs lubing, calibrate the shutter and it is ready to go, good as new! How boring! If the simplicity of CLAing…
This is a Detrola 400, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by the Detrola Corp in Detroit, MI, USA between the years 1940 and 1941. The Detrola 400 was the most advanced camera produced by Detrola and would turn out to be its last before the company stopped producing cameras in…
At the end of Episode 80, we promised an entire show dedicated to Zeiss-Ikon. Unfortunately, things got in the way of us being able to dedicate the necessary time to prepare to cover such a complex and important company, so we decided to pivot and do another GAS episode. Anthony…
This is an Opema II, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Meopta in Přerov, Czechoslovakia starting in 1954. The Opema II featured a coupled rangefinder, cloth focal plane shutter with top 1/500 speed and an interchangeable 38mm thread mount for changing lenses. Although very similar to the 39mm thread mount…
This is a Konica Recorder DD, a half frame 35mm point and shoot camera made by Konica of Japan starting in 1985. The “DD” in the model name indicates that this was a version of the camera with a data back as compared with the non DD model which was…
Everyone get out your Aqua Net hair spray and G.I. Joe lunchboxes because it is time to hop in the Hot Tub Time Machine and go back to the 80s! In this, the 80th episode of the Camerosity Podcast, we revisit the decade where Michael Jackson and Madonna reigned supreme,…
