Kodak 135 format 35mm Film
This is a Ducati Sogno, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by S.S.R. Ducati in Milan, Italy between the years 1947 and 1952. The word “Sogno” translates to “dream” and was a very tiny interchangeable lens rangefinder camera which shoots 18mm x 24mm “half frame” images on regular 35mm film loaded…
This is an Ilford Advocate, a 35mm scale focus camera, made by Kennedy Instruments, Ltd. for their parent company, Ilford, Ltd in London, England between the years 1949 and 1957. The Advocate was one of the most popular cameras to feature the Ilford name, a company most commonly associated with a…
This is a Voigtländer Vito III, a 35mm folding rangefinder camera, made by Voigtländer AG in Braunschweig, West Germany starting in 1950. The Vito III was the last and best featured of their folding Vito line and the only one available with the Ultron f/2 lens. With the exception of…
This is an Akarette II, a 35mm interchangeable lens scale focus camera produced by Apparate und Kamerabau GmbH in Friedrichshafen, West Germany between the years 1950 and 1954. The Akarette II was one of the higher featured models in a lineup of similarly designed cameras from 1947 to 1962. The…
This is a Samsung Evoca 70 Neo, a 35mm point and shoot camera made in 2002 by Samsung Techwin in South Korea. This is the North American version of the Samsung Vega 700 which is what it was called in other markets. The Samsung Evoca 70 Neo is a rather…
This is a Certo Dollina III, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Certo Camera Work Dresden in 1938. The Dollina III was the most advanced in the Dollina line of 35mm cameras, improving on the earlier models with a larger body with a built in coupled rangefinder. The Dollina series…
This is a Detrola 400, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by the Detrola Corp in Detroit, MI, USA between the years 1940 and 1941. The Detrola 400 was the most advanced camera produced by Detrola and would turn out to be its last before the company stopped producing cameras in…
This is an Opema II, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Meopta in Přerov, Czechoslovakia starting in 1954. The Opema II featured a coupled rangefinder, cloth focal plane shutter with top 1/500 speed and an interchangeable 38mm thread mount for changing lenses. Although very similar to the 39mm thread mount…
This is a Konica Recorder DD, a half frame 35mm point and shoot camera made by Konica of Japan starting in 1985. The “DD” in the model name indicates that this was a version of the camera with a data back as compared with the non DD model which was…
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. In the past, these reviews used to come out in a set of three every Halloween or what I called…
This is an Alpa Reflex, a 35mm single lens reflex and rangefinder camera made by Pignons S.A. in Ballaigues, Switzerland between the years 1944 and 1952. The Alpa Reflex was the first generation of Alpa cameras and is one of only a very few reflex cameras to also feature a…
This is a Yashica Dental-Eye, a 35mm SLR camera made by Kyocera starting in 1985. The Dental-Eye, as the name suggests, is a specialized camera produced primarily for the dental industry allowing for extreme closeups, but it was also used by eye doctors and in other specialized medical and scientific…
