Kodak 135 format 35mm Film
This is a Kilfitt Mecaflex, a 35mm leaf shutter SLR camera designed by Heinz Kilfitt but produced by SEROA in the Principality of Monaco starting in 1958. This version of the Mecaflex was a continuation of a model produced under the same name by Metz in Germany starting in 1953. …
This is a Kowa Kallo 140, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Kowa Optical Co., Ltd. in Japan starting in September 1959. The Kallo 140 was the most ambitious 35mm rangefinder camera made by Kowa featuring a large and sturdy metal body, coupled rangefinder with automatic parallax correction, a unique…
This is a Kodak Retina IIS – Type 024, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Kodak AG in Stuttgart, West Germany between the years 1959 and 1960. The Retina IIS was the little brother to the very similar Retina IIIS – Type 027, lacking that model’s interchangeable lens mount and…
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…
