Ernst Leitz has been making Leica cameras for nearly 100 years and in that time, countless articles have been written about their many products. It’s unlikely that today, in 2019, I could dig up anything that you haven’t already seen before. So, it probably comes as no surprise that this…
This is a Miranda Sensorex 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera made by Miranda Camera of Japan between the years 1966 to 1972. The Sensorex was a semi-professional SLR camera that aimed to be an alternative to more expensive professional cameras made by Nikon and Topcon, offering similar features, but at…
A modern (made within the last 20 years) manual focus rangefinder with TTL metering and a Copal Square vertically traveling focal plane shutter in a compact body using the Leica Thread Mount?!?! Take. My. Money. It always surprises me after the years I’ve been collecting and researching old cameras to…
This week, I bring to you the third in a series of articles that were published in the mid to late 1950s about the state of the German Camera Industry. The first two parts were part of a large 42 page special section in the May 1956 issue of Popular…
This is a Zeiss-Ikon Box Tengor 54/2, medium format 6×9 box camera, made by Zeiss-Ikon between the years of 1931 – 1938. This is the third version of the original Box-Tengor, featuring larger viewfinders and an updated design. The Zeiss-Ikon Box-Tengor was a higher quality box camera compared to inexpensive…
This week, I bring to you the second part of a large 42 page special section in the May 1956 issue of Popular Photography where they took a look at the state of the German Camera Industry. You can read the first part here. Like the previous part, this entire…
There’s been a lot of crowdfunded photography related projects lately, many of which attempt to introduce new cameras or other photographic tools of questionable value, but this latest is one that I could actually see myself trying out. It’s a dark room timer that not only keeps track of time,…
This is a Nikon SP, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Nippon Kogaku of Tokyo, Japan between the years of 1957 and 1962. It was the 5th model in Nippon Kogaku’s line of S-series rangefinders, and was the most advanced in the entire series. It was designed to compete directly…
Last May, I posted a three part series covering articles about the Japanese Photo Industry in the 1950s, and then again in October I re-branded the site for “Red October” where I posted a series of Soviet related articles. Now, it’s Germany’s turn. This will be the first in a…
This week’s featured article has a headline that reads like hundreds of others out there, but if you take the time to read it, is a hauntingly personal retrospective on true events of James Tocchio’s photographic journey. It’s an unexpectedly beautiful and brutally honest article that I know James had…
This is a Continental TXL 35mm fixed lens SLR camera made in Hong Kong probably in the 1980s or 90s. The Continental was one of many copies of an older Hanimex and Fujica camera that was produced in the early to mid 1970s. There exist a large number of similar…
This week’s featured article is an excellent (and gorgeous) write-up by Cheyenne Morrison on the Zeiss Biotar 75mm f/1.5 lens. I’m a big fan of Cheyenne’s photography and his lens reviewing skills aren’t too shabby either. This is a lens that I’ll likely never be able to afford myself, but…
