Kodak 135 format 35mm Film
This is an AGFA Selectronic 3, a 35mm SLR made in Japan by Chinon Industries for AGFA, starting in 1980. The Selectronic 3 was a rebadge of the Chinon CE-4 and shared almost all of that camera’s features, including it’s Pentax K-bayonet lens mount and aperture priority automatic exposure. The…
This is a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera called the Riwa. It is a one of a kind prototype that was likely produced sometime before 1945 in Klosterlichfeld, West Germany. It features an interchangeable 39mm screw mount with a 5cm f/2 Rodenstock Heligon lens and a focal plane shutter with…
This is a Focasport II C, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Optique & Précision de Levallois, in Levallois-Perret, France starting in 1963. The Focasport II C is part of a long line of Foca and Focasport models, featuring a coupled coincident image rangefinder, coupled selenium exposure meter, a between…
This is a Corfield Periflex 3, an innovative 35mm reflex camera produced by K.G. Corfield Ltd., of Wolverhampton, England between the years 1957 and 1960. The Periflex 3 was part of a series of cameras that use a small reflex mirror and focusing prism mounted to a mechanism that can…
This is a Canon Original, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Seiki Kogaku Kenkyujo in Tokyo, Japan between the years 1935 to 1940. These cameras were the first models made by the company that would eventually become Canon. They are an evolution of an earlier Kwanon prototype that was never…
This review is part of the Cameras of the Dead series which features dead cameras that I’ve wanted to review that either didn’t work, or was otherwise unable to shoot. This review was originally part of a three camera review published on October 29, 2021 in the 10th edition of…
This is an Exakta RTL 1000, a 35mm SLR camera made by VEB Pentacon Dresden between the years 1969 to 1973. Despite the Exakta name and sharing the original Exakta mount, this camera bears very little resemblance to earlier Exaktas, in fact, it was built alongside the Praktica L-series also…
This review is part of the Cameras of the Dead series which features dead cameras that I’ve wanted to review that either didn’t work, or was otherwise unable to shoot. This review was originally part of a three camera review published on October 29, 2021 in the 10th edition of…
This review is part of the Cameras of the Dead series which features dead cameras that I’ve wanted to review that either didn’t work, or was otherwise unable to shoot. This review was originally part of a three camera review published on October 29, 2021 in the 10th edition of…
This is a Topcon R, a 35mm single lens reflex camera made by Tokyo Kogaku in Tokyo, Japan between the years 1957 and 1960. The Topcon R was Tokyo Kogaku’s first 35mm SLR and like their later RE series, used the Exakta bayonet mount and had interchangeable viewfinders. The Topcon…
This is an Exakta Twin TL, a 35mm single lens reflex camera built in Japan by Cosina for Ihagee Kamerawerk AG, also known as Ihagee West, starting in 1970. The Exakta Twin TL was a last ditch effort by the West German version of Ihagee to launch a new series…
This is a Fujica V2, a 35mm rangefinder camera built by Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd in Japan starting in 1965. The Fujica V2 was a pretty advanced camera for it’s day featuring shutter priority automatic exposure via a coupled CdS meter, a sharp 6-element Fujinon lens, and a full…
