This review is part of the Cameras of the Dead series which I have been publishing every year on Halloween and “Halfway to” Halloween, featuring three cameras that I’ve wanted to review that either didn’t work, or was otherwise unable to shoot. I am republishing each of those individual reviews…
This review is part of the Cameras of the Dead series which I have been publishing every year on Halloween and “Halfway to” Halloween, featuring three cameras that I’ve wanted to review that either didn’t work, or was otherwise unable to shoot. I am republishing each of those individual reviews…
Camera makers throughout the 20th century happily threw the word “automatic” around to refer to some new feature of a camera that has now been automated. Early Rolleiflexes were often called “Automats” because they had the ability to automatically detect the start of a new roll of film and advance…
This is a Nikonos II, an amphibious 35mm camera produced by Nippon Kogaku between 1968 and 1976 for underwater photography. The Nikonos series was originally designed by a company called La Spirotechnique in France in 1960, and sold as the Calypso-Phot. The Calypso was conceived by Jacques Cousteau and was…
If you noticed the site not responding or appearing to be down today or last night, it’s because I’ve been migrating hosts. In January 2019, I switched to Bluehost which is one of the largest WordPress hosting sites out there, but lately, site performance has been miserable. After talking with…
This week’s featured post is the second time I’ve highlighted something by Sroyon Mukherjee, this time a part 1 of a project showing a selection of strange pinhole camera creations. Anyone with a box, a hole, and some film can make a pinhole camera, but simply making them out of…
This is a Wirgin Edixa Reflex B, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera produced by Wirgin Kamerawerk Wiesbaden, starting in 1956. This is the second revision to the original Wirgin Edixa Reflex first released in 1954, adding slow speeds down to 1 second and support for lenses with automatic diaphragms. …
This is a Start B, a Twin Lens Reflex camera produced in Warsaw, Poland by Warsaw Photo-Optical Works or WZFO for short between the years of 1960 and 1967. The Start B was an updated version of the original Start TLR from 1954. WZFO was Poland’s first and only consumer…
Earlier this year I had an idea for a fun article full of cameras with strange names, so I put together a list of 10 Unfortunately Named Cameras. The week before I was going to post the article, COVID-19 was officially declared a pandemic and my country started to shut…
You would assume that any magazine article telling the story of one of the most famous street photographers of all time would mention his name in the title. This week’s Keppler’s Vault about Arthur Fellig, better known as “Weegee” is the oldest article I’ve ever featured and is from the…
This is a Konica Auto-Reflex, a 35mm SLR camera produced by Konica of Japan starting in 1965. This model was the first in Konica’s long lived Autoreflex series and is the only one with a hyphenated name. It is also the only model that can seamlessly switch between shooting full…
This week’s featured post was an easy one to select. Whenever one of my favorite cameras gets reviewed by one of my favorite bloggers, you’ll have my complete attention. So when I saw that my friend Theo from photothinking.com dropped his review of the Topcon RE Super, I immediately started…
