Myself and most of the people listening to this podcast are well aware of what it’s like to buy film cameras and photography gear, but less of us know what it’s like to sell it. On this, the 30th episode of the Camerosity Podcast, the gang and I bring on…
This is a Franka Rolfix II, a medium format folding camera made by Franka-Kamerawerk in Bayreuth, West Germany from about 1954 to 1957. The Rolfix II was one of the last in a long running series of Franka’s dual format folding cameras which first went into production in 1935. This…
This is an Ucaflex, a 35mm single lens reflex camera, produced by UCA-Werkstätten für Feinmechanik und Optik GmbH in Flensburg, West Germany between 1951 and 1952. The Ucaflex takes a unique approach to SLR design with a hybrid reflex mirror and prism viewfinder for focus only and an optical viewfinder…
Aaaah, the wonders of running a blog and being the sole IT person for it…sometimes things break. Apparently, the site indexes have been inoperable since some time in April, to which several of you attempted to notify me through the Contact Form….which was also broke. I have resolved both issues…
This is a GOKO Macromax FR-3500 a 35mm point and shoot camera made by Goko Camera Co., Ltd. starting in 1998. The Macromax was part of a long line of simple point and shoot cameras with an unusually close macro focus capability. The Macromax, like it’s predecessors did not support…
This is a Graflex Graphic 35 Electric, an electrically powered motor driven interchangeable lens 35mm rangefinder made in Hamburg, West Germany by Iloca for Graflex, Inc of Rochester, NY in 1959. The Graphic 35 Electric is a name variant of the Iloca Electric, which has all of the same features. …
We’re back with another fascinating installment of the world’s most popular open source film photography podcast! For Episode 29, we dig into the vault and bring back a guest from the very first Cocaine and Waffles episode, mister “Sexy” himself, Cheyenne Morrison! As always, Cheyenne doesn’t hold back with his…
This is an Argus V-100, a 35mm rangefinder camera made in Hamburg, West Germany by Iloca for the American company Argus between the years 1958 and 1959. The V-100 was also sold as the Iloca Rapid IIL and the Sears Tower 52. The Argus V-100 has a coupled rangefinder and…
Screw Mount Leica II and IIIs were the most copied camera design in history, perhaps even the most copied THING in history. While counterfeit versions of Coach handbags, Rolex watches, and Nike shoes have been extremely common for decades, what makes Leica copies unique is that unlike most other luxury…
Freshly rescued from our tropical getaway where we started fires with Nikkor lenses, beat away native beasts with Arguses, and swam underwater with our Nikonos, the guys and I have come to the realization that we’ve spent a lot of time in recent episodes talking about some of the same…
This is a Nicca III-L, a 35mm rangefinder camera originally developed in 1958 by Nicca Camera Co. Ltd. of Japan and upon it’s release, sold under Nicca’s ownership by Yashica. Although two more Nicca built cameras continued to be sold with Yashica branding, the III-L is the considered the last…
This is a King Regula RM, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Regula-Werk King KG in Bad Liebenzell, Germany between 1956 and 1959. The Regula RM is part of the King Regula III-series of cameras which contained a total of nine separate models, all with slightly different features. The distinct…
