Kodak 135 format 35mm Film
This is an Edixa Reflex-C 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera made in West Germany by the Wirgin camera company. Wirgin had a line of 35mm rangefinder cameras also known as the Edixa, but this line of Edixa SLRs was in production under many different submodels from 1954 to around 1971. The…
What is it? This is a Petri Flex V 35mm SLR camera made by Kuribayashi Shashin Kōgyō K.K. in 1961. Kuribayashi wouldn’t officially take the name “Petri” until a year after this camera’s release. This camera is an evolution of Kuribayashi’s first 35mm SLR, the Petri Penta from 1959 which used…
This is a KMZ Start Single Lens Reflex camera made by Krasnogorsk Mechanical Works (KMZ for short) in the former Soviet Union. This was the first Soviet made SLR aimed at professionals. Although it doesn’t look like it, the Start borrowed many design elements from the German made Ihagee Exakta SLR…
What is it? This is a Nikon N80 35mm SLR camera released by Nikon on January 27, 2000. The N80 is known as the F80 outside of North America, but otherwise the two cameras are identical. There was also a version with a built in data-back known as the N80QD. The…
This is a Canon AF35M 35mm auto focus camera made by Canon in 1979. This camera was also known as the Sure Shot in the US and the Autoboy in Japan. It was the world’s first active auto focus camera. The Canon AF35M proved to be a pretty reliable camera that could…
What is it? This is a Minolta Hi-Matic 7s rangefinder camera built by Minolta Camera K.K around 1966. The Hi-Matic 7s is an evolution of the original Hi-Matic from 1962 which was one of the very first Japanese cameras with full auto exposure. The 7s added several important features like full…
This is a Pentax ES II Single Lens Reflex camera made in Japan by Asahi Pentax. It is one of the very few M42 screw mount cameras that is capable of auto exposure, and was the very last screw mount camera made by Asahi Pentax before they switched to K-Mount…
This is the Konica AiBORG super-zoom point and shoot camera. It was introduced in September 1991 as the world’s first moving frame auto focus camera. Loaded with many buttons, a large LCD screen, and a joystick, it was a very ambitious camera boasting a wide array of features and shooting modes…
What is it? This is a Kodak Retina IIc rangefinder camera built by Kodak AG, the German subsidiary of the Eastman Kodak company. The IIc was the successor to the Retina IIa and while on the surface is a very similar model, there are many cosmetic and functional improvements that…
What is it? This is a Kodak Signet 35 rangefinder camera made by the Eastman Kodak company out of Rochester, NY, USA. This was the first in a line of several Signet models that would be sold in the 1950s and 60s. It replaced the Kodak 35 rangefinder camera which was…
What is it? This is a Canon P 35mm rangefinder which was sold between 1959 and 1961. The P stands for “Populaire”, meaning it was marketed as a budget (or popular) choice compared to higher spec Canon cameras. The P was very similar to the Canon VI-L, but lacking some of it’s features…
This is a Nikon FA 35mm SLR camera which was one of the most technologically advanced cameras of it’s day. Upon it’s release in 1983, Nikon advertised it as the “Technocamera” due to it’s many innovative electronic features. Several of the FA’s features are still considered relevant today like it’s CPU controlled matrix metering…
