Kodak 135 format 35mm Film
This is an Akarex III, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Apparate und Kamerabau GmbH in Friedrichshafen, West Germany between the years 1953 and 1958. The Akarex III was a premium interchangeable lens rangefinder camera sold alongside the company’s Akarette/Akarelle cameras, but with one pretty major difference. The Akarex III…
This is a Praktica BC3 electronic, a 35mm SLR camera made by VEB Pentacon Dresden in Dresden, East Germany between the years 1987 and 1988. It used the Praktica Bayonet mount, which was an all new bayonet mount used by B-series Prakticas in the 1980s and 1990s and had a…
This is a Miranda Sensoret, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by the Miranda Camera Company in Tokyo, Japan and was released in July 1972. The Sensoret was the only rangefinder camera made by Miranda, a company exclusively known for SLR cameras. The Sensoret was a compact rangefinder camera with fully…
This is a Leica CL a 35mm rangefinder camera designed by Ernst Leitz, but made by Minolta in Osaka, Japan between the years 1973 and 1976. The Leica CL was the first of several cameras produced through a partnership with Minolta as the two companies worked together, Minolta to gain…
This is a Zeiss-Ikon Contaflex, a 35mm Twin Lens Reflex camera produced by Zeiss-Ikon AG Dresden between the years 1935 and 1940 in Dresden, Germany. The Contaflex TLR is one of only a few TLR style cameras designed for 35mm film and the only one that supports interchangeable lenses. It…
This is a Pentaflex 24×36, a 35mm SLR produced by Tokiwa Seiki K.K. in 1955. The Pentaflex was the first Japanese SLR with an eye-level viewfinder, beating the Orion Miranda T by about four months. Unlike the Miranda however, the Pentaflex does not uses a pentaprism, but rather a system…
This is a Minolta 35 Model IIB, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Chiyoda Kōgaku in Tokyo, Japan in 1958. The Model IIB was the last model in the Minolta 35 series of interchangeable lens rangefinder cameras, dating back to the original model from 1947. Despite being Minolta’s last hurrah…
This is an Alpa Si 2000, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera made by Chinon Industries Inc. between the years 1977 and 1979 for the Swiss manufacturer Pignons S.A. as a cost effective alternative to that company’s high end hand built Alpa cameras. The Alpa Si 2000 is based off…
This is a Miranda T, a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera made by the Orion Camera Company in Tokyo, Japan starting in 1955. The Orion Miranda T is a historically significant camera for a number of reasons. It was not only the first camera made by what would become the…
This is a Pentax Super A, a 35mm SLR camera made by Asahi Optical Co. Ltd in Tokyo, Japan between the years 1983 and 1987. When sold in North America, the Pentax Super A was called the Super Program. The only difference between the two is that the Super A…
This is the GOMZ Junost (Юность), a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Gosudarstvennyi Optiko-Mekhanicheskii Zavod (GOMZ for short) near Leningrad, Russia between the years 1957 and 1961. The Junost was an unusually styled camera which looked unlike any other Soviet camera of the era, with a strange combination of old…
This is a KMZ Zenit (Зенит), a 35mm single lens reflex camera made by Krasnogorski Mekhanicheskii Zavod (KMZ) in the former Soviet Union between the years of 1952 and 1956. The Zenit was the first Zenit camera, first SLR produced by KMZ, and only second Soviet SLR to be produced…
