What do you call a flashback to a flashback? A flashback-back, or is it a flash-flashback? Whatever it’s called, this week’s Keppler’s Vault is a double flashback-flashback, first from the May 1952 issue of Popular Photography magazine, who at the time had changed it’s name to Photography magazine, where they…
This is a View-Master Personal Stereo Camera, made by Sawyer’s Inc., out of Portland, Oregon between the years of 1952 and 1955. The View-Master Personal Stereo Camera shoots 14mm x 12mm stereoscopic images on regular 35mm film for use in View-Master slides, slide viewers, and projectors. The circular View-Master slides…
If your idea of enjoyable photography is picking up a camera, turning it on, pointing it at something, pressing the shutter release, and getting great images 100% of the time, then collecting and shooting old film cameras is not for you. One of the many reasons you hear for why…
Normally I reserve my recommendations for Friday Recommended Reading posts, but this time I have a special recommendation of Episode 129 of the Classic Lenses Podcast in which I am the guest, along with Simon, Perry, and Johnny. This was an especially raucous episode where we get off topic often,…
This is a Nikkorex F, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera produced by Mamiya Optical Co. for Nippon Kogaku starting in 1962. The Nikkorex F was part of Nippon Kogaku’s Nikkorex line which was their first attempt at an entry level line of cameras and was the only one with…
One of the most popular posts of the week comes from Hamish at 35mmc and falls under his own category of “Philosophy & Reflections” in which he realizes that with the steady increase in prices of film gear online, that even now in 2020, you still don’t need to spend…
When Edwin Land released his first Polaroid Land Camera Model 95 in 1948, the world forever changed with the possibility of instant photography without the need to wait for a lab to process your film. Now with a Polaroid Land Camera, you could see the results of your image in…
This is a Zeiss-Ikon Contax III, a 35mm rangefinder camera built by Zeiss-Ikon in Dresden, Germany between the years 1936 and 1942. The Contax III was an upgrade to the Contax II from the same era, adding a selenium exposure meter to the top plate. The Contax II and III…
This week’s Keppler’s Vault is about System Cameras, but before we begin, perhaps it would be wise to answer the question, what is a system camera? Is it the same thing as a camera system? Apparently this question was on everyone’s minds 46 years ago when this article from the…
This is a Leicaflex, a 35mm SLR produced by Ernst Leitz Wetzlar between 1964 and 1968. It was the first in a series of Leicaflex SLRs that were produced through 1976 using the company’s all new Leica R bayonet lens mount that would continue with the Leica R series through…
It’s often very easy to select a featured review when it’s written by one of my favorite camera reviewers, Cheyenne Morrison, whose reviews are always incredibly well researched and interesting to read. Not only does Cheyenne have a knack for digging into a camera’s history like I do, but unlike…
This is an Ebner 4.5×6 folding camera produced by Albert Ebner & Co. in Stuttgart, Germany between the years 1933 and 1935. There were two Ebner cameras made, this one and a 6×9 version, neither of which were identified by any name other than the size of the images they…
