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Ducati Sogno (1947)

Ducati Sogno (1947)

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…

April 16, 2025 April 16, 2025 Photography / Reviews  35mm / Ducati / Italy
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Gamma II (1947)

Gamma II (1947)

This is a Gamma II, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Gamma Officine Meccaniche de Precisione in Rome, Italy between the years 1947 and 1950.  The Gamma II was the first in a series of Gamma cameras and the only one with a unique bayonet lens mount.  Later Gamma cameras…

September 3, 2024 September 3, 2024 Photography / Reviews  11.0 / 35mm / Gamma / Italy
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Durst Automatica (1956)

Durst Automatica (1956)

This is a Durst Automatica, a 35mm viewfinder camera made by Durst Phototechnik SA in Bolzano, Italy between the years 1956 to 1963.  The Durst Automatica was an elegantly designed camera that is notable as having one of the earliest implementations of automatic exposure in a 35mm camera, beating a…

April 25, 2023 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  11.0 / 35mm / Durst / Italy
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Ferrania Condor I (1947)

Ferrania Condor I (1947)

This is a Ferrania Condor I, a 35mm rangefinder camera made in Italy by Officine Galileo and distributed by Ferrania starting in 1947.  Models of the Condor exist both with and without the Ferrania branding, but otherwise are identical.  The Condor was a simple, but well built fixed lens rangefinder…

August 31, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  11.0 / 35mm / Ferrania / Italy
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Rectaflex (1948)

Rectaflex (1948)

This is the Rectaflex, a 35mm SLR built in Rome, Italy between the years of 1948 to 1958.  It was designed by a Roman lawyer named Telemaco Corsi and was the very first 35mm SLR to feature a pentaprism viewfinder, narrowly beating out the Zeiss-Ikon Contax S as the first…

February 2, 2021 January 26, 2024 Photography / Reviews  12.0 / 35mm / Italy / Rectaflex
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Bencini Koroll II (1962)

Bencini Koroll II (1962)

What is it? This is a Bencini Koroll II made by Bencini in Milan, Italy starting around 1962.  It is a strange medium format camera designed to use 120 roll film, but takes small 30mm x 45mm exposures which are only slightly larger in size than 3cm x 4cm images…

July 14, 2017 January 31, 2024 Photography / Reviews  120 / 5.0 / Bencini / Italy
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