Earlier this week, I published a full review of an Alpa Alnea 7 that I had picked up last fall. With that camera came three lenses, a Kern-Switar 50/1.8, an Angenieux telephoto and a Kamerabau-Anstalt-Vaduz Kilfitt-Makro Kilar D 4cm f/2.8 lens. I was immediately drawn to the 2 inch minimum…
This is an Alpa Alnea Model 7 made by Pignons S.A. of Switzerland starting in 1952. It was the 4th and most advanced model of the second generation of Alpa cameras. Featuring both a 45 degree angled reflex viewfinder and a coupled coincident image rangefinder with selectable 50, 90, and…
Back in October 2017, as part of the 4th edition of my Cameras of the Dead series, I wrote a short review about a compact 127 roll film camera called the Ising Puck. The Puck was an interesting little camera made by a small German company called Ising, who at…
This week’s featured post covers something I do so often, it’s almost automatic, cleaning, storing and repairing classic cameras! Of course, how someone repairs a classic camera is up to much debate as the methods that I often employ on my $10 estate sale finds are not what a life…
This is an Ambi Silette, a 35mm interchangeable lens rangefinder camera made by AGFA Camera-Werk AG Muenchen between the years 1957 and 1961. Upon it’s release, the Ambi Silette was AGFA’s top of the line 35mm camera and would be the best featured rangefinder model they would ever make. Featuring…
This is a Canonflex R2000, a 35mm SLR made by Canon of Japan and was produced between the years 1960 and 1964. The Canonflex R2000, along with an economy model called the Canonflex RP both replaced the original Canonflex from 1959 which was Canon’s answer to the Nikon F. It…
This week’s featured post comes to us from Chris Hunter at EMULSIVE, and is a very creative project combining two very different aspects of photography. Pinhole cameras, and selfies. What started out as a bit of poking fun at the “selfie generation” turned into cans of Campbell’s soup taking pictures…
If you have any interest in Yashica TLRs, there is a chance you know who Paul Sokk is. Maybe you don’t recognize the name, but I’d be willing to bet you’ve visited his website, yashicatlr.com at least once. One of the earliest cameras I ever reviewed was the Yashicamat which…
This is an Exa 1c, a 35mm SLR camera sold under the name Ihagee, but manufactured by Certo Camera Werk in Dresden, East Germany, who at the time were both part of VEB Pentacon. The Exa 1c was produced for less than three years and was the last in the…
This week’s featured post comes from my good friend Theo Panagopoulos at photothinking.com, and is a review of a camera at, or near the top of mine, and probably every collector’s wish list. The Hasselblad XPan. Built to shoot true panoramic 65mm x 24mm exposures on regular 35mm film without…
Twin Lens Reflex cameras are perhaps the most iconic looking of all old film cameras. Every time I take out a TLR to shoot some film, I am approached by curious strangers far more often than when I have any other type of film camera. TLR design is still very…
This is a Thowe Thowette, a compact rigid bodied camera that shoots 3cm x 4.5cm images on 127 format roll film. It was built by a Dresden area based company called Thowe for some years in the late 1920s through the early 1930s. Very little is known about Thowe other…
