Kodak 135 format 35mm Film
This is a Wenk Wenka II, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Gebrüder Wenk in Nuremberg, West Germany between the years 1951 and 1952. The Wenka was the only camera made by Wenk before they stopped making cameras. At least four versions of the Wenka were produced, the Model II…
This is a Welta Belmira, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by VEB Welta-Kamera-Werk between the years 1956 and 1961. Although credited as a Welta camera, the Belmira was originally designed by Belca-Werk in Dresden, Germany as early as 1951, but didn’t get released until five years later. The Belmira was…
This is a Leica Model B, a 35mm camera made by Ernst Leitz GmbH of Wetzlar, Germany between the years 1926 and 1941. The Leica Model B was the second model in the Leica series and is the only Leica camera ever made which uses a Compur leaf shutter. Two…
This is a Hanimex 35 Micro Flash, a compact 35mm point and shoot camera released by Hanimex in multiple markets around the world. The camera was made in Japan, most likely by the Sedic Camera Company, but this is difficult to confirm. The Hanimex 35 Micro Flash is a small…
This is a Neubert Neuca, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Feinmechanischen Werkstätten Franz Robert Neubert (Neubert for short) in 1946 in Jena, Germany, which was then known as the ‘Soviet Occupation Zone in Germany’. The Neuca was an attempt to build a lower cost Leica style camera with a…
This is an AGFA Selectronic S, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Agfa-Gevaert AG in München, West Germany between the years 1970 and 1976. The Selectronic S was the company’s top of the line rangefinder camera featuring aperture priority automatic exposure, an electronic shutter with a huge range of continuously…
This is a Favor II, a scale focus viewfinder camera produced by Dr. Wöhler Saar in Saarland, West Germany between the years 1950 and 1957. The Favor II is a slight update to the original Favor from 1949 adding an improved shutter and one of two different f/2.8 lenses. The…
This is a Kalimar Regula Reflex 2000 CTL, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera produced by Regula-Werk King KG in Bad Liebenzell, West Germany around the year 1970. This version of the camera was sold in the United States by Kalimar out of St. Louis, Missouri but was also sold…
This is a Pearl River S-201 (珠江, Zhu Jiang S-201), a 35mm SLR camera produced by the Yongguang Instrument Factory in the Chinese province of Sichuan starting in 1974. The Pearl River S-201 was based on the earlier Seagull DF SLR, but replacing the fixed pentaprism with an interchangeable unit…
This is an Argus CC, a 35mm scale focus camera made by Argus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA between the years 1940 and 1942. The name “CC” is short for “Color Camera” and was named as such as it was designed specifically to shoot Kodak’s new Kodachrome color slide film. …
This is a LOMO MC-A, a compact 35mm point and shoot camera made by the Lomographic Society starting in 2025 and is still being produced. The LOMO MC-A was conceived as a premium point and shoot for the 21st century with an all glass 5-element lens fully automatic camera with…
This is the Konica FT-1, a 35mm SLR produced by the Konica Corporation of Japan between the years 1983 and 1987. The FT-1 is often referred to as the FT-1 Motor as that is how it is displayed on the camera. The inclusion of the word “Motor” highlights the camera’s…
