Kodak 135 format 35mm Film
This is a Bolsey B2 35mm fixed lens rangefinder camera made by the Bolsey Corporation of America between the years of 1949 – 1956. The B2 is a very compact and lightweight die-cast aluminum bodied camera that features a lens and shutter both made by Wollensak, out of Rochester, NY.…
What is it? This is a Leica M3 35mm rangefinder camera, built by Ernst Leitz GmbH from 1954 to 1966. It was the first Leica that used the Leica M lens mount, the first Leica with a coincident image rangefinder, and the first Leica with a wind lever. It is…
What is it? This is a Vivitar 35ES 35mm rangefinder camera made by Cosina of Japan around 1978. The Vivitar 35ES was one of many variants of this model all made by Cosina. There were versions sold by Minolta, Revue, Prinz, and possibly others, all made by Cosina. Unlike most…
What is it? This is an AGFA Optima I produced between the years 1960 – 64. It was the followup to the original Optima from 1959 which was one of the very first cameras with a fully automatic program auto exposure mode. It’s selenium meter would allow the camera to…
What is it? This is a Chinon CE II Memotron 35mm SLR camera from 1976. This model was one of the very last 35mm cameras released by any company to still use the aging M42 screw mount. It’s headline feature was that it was capable of open aperture auto exposure…
What is it? This is a Nikon One Touch AF3 auto focus 35mm point and shoot camera made by Nikon starting in 1987. The AF3 was the third version of the original L35 from 1983 which was Nikon’s first compact auto focus camera. The AF3 has a simpler 4 element lens…
This is a Fujica 35-ML rangefinder camera made by Fuji Photo Film Co. starting in 1958. Fuji would use the name “Fujica” on all of their film cameras until the late 1970s. It was an amalgam of the words “Fuji” and “camera”. The ML was otherwise identical to the Fujica 35-M released…
What is it? This is a Yashica Lynx-14 35mm rangefinder camera made in Japan starting in 1965. The Lynx was Yashica’s top of the line 35mm rangefinder series in the 1960s. The first two models, the Lynx 1000 and 5000 both had fast f/1.8 lenses with modern light meters. Then…
This is a Clarus MS-35 camera made by the Clarus Camera Manufacturing Co. based out of Minneapolis, MN. This was the first and only camera made by Clarus and was sold between the years of 1946 and 1952. The Clarus MS-35 was an ambitious 35mm rangefinder that bore a striking…
This is a Certo Dollina II rangefinder camera made in Dresden, Germany by Certo Camera Werk. The Dollina II was first introduced in 1936, only a year after the Dollina I which did not have a rangefinder, making the Dollina series the second cameras ever made designed to use Kodak’s new…
When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth… This is a followup to an earlier post I spontaneously wrote back in August called “The Cameras of the Dead”. In that article, I applied a tongue in cheek analogy to George Romero’s 1968 classic “The Night of…
This is a Miranda D 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera made in 1960 by Miranda Camera K.K. Although made in Japan, around the time this model was current, most Miranda cameras were not sold in the Japanese domestic market. This camera was most likely sold in the United States by…
