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…
This is an Eigenbau Kamera, which is German for “home made camera”. It uses regular 35mm film, but shoots very small images, probably around 12mm wide by 17mm tall. A plate on the back of the camera reads “H. Wildbore Leicester” which suggests it was made in Leicester, England by…
This is a Nikkormat FT3, a 35mm single lens reflex camera produced by Nippon Kogaku in Tokyo, Japan between the years 1977 and 1979. The FT3 was the last camera produced with the Nikkormat name. The Nikkormat FT3 is improved from the previous model by adding support for Nippon Kogaku’s…
This week on episode 27 Anthony, Paul, Theo and I get our passports ready and board onto a boat for a tropical getaway! While there, we will be taking a three hour tour to a remote, non-descript island, where us and our friend Gilligan will soak in the sights and…
This is a Kodak Pony 135 Model C, a 35mm point and shoot camera made by Eastman Kodak in Rochester, NY between the years 1955 and 1958. This was the last in the original series of Pony models dating back to the original Pony 828 from 1949. The Model C…
This is the Canon AS-6, a 35mm water resistant point and shoot camera made by Canon starting in February 1986. The Canon AS-6 was sold in the United States as the “Aqua Snappy” but retained the AS-6 logo on the front of the camera. The AS-6 was fully automatic with…
This week on episode 26 we play catch up on a lack of GAS discussion over the past couple of episodes. Theo, Paul, Anthony, and Mike all have a large number of cameras that they’ve come across, and not always from the usual sources. In addition to GAS, we share…
This is a Pentax LX, a 35mm SLR produced by Asahi Optical of Japan between the years 1980 and 2001. The Pentax LX was the top of the line Pentax SLR aimed at professional photographers and competed directly with the Nikon F3. The camera had a long list of features,…
