This is a Kowa Kallo 140, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Kowa Optical Co., Ltd. in Japan starting in September 1959. The Kallo 140 was the most ambitious 35mm rangefinder camera made by Kowa featuring a large and sturdy metal body, coupled rangefinder with automatic parallax correction, a unique…
This is a Kowa SW, a 35mm scale focus camera made in Japan by Kowa Optical Works in 1964. The Kowa SW was a short lived camera designed around a wide angle 28mm f/3.2 lens which had an unusually wide 75 degree angle of coverage. The Kowa SW supported a…
This review is part of the Cameras of the Dead series which I have been publishing every year on Halloween and “Halfway to” Halloween, featuring three cameras that I’ve wanted to review that either didn’t work, or was otherwise unable to shoot. I am republishing each of those individual reviews…
This review is part of the Cameras of the Dead series which I have been publishing every year on Halloween and “Halfway to” Halloween, featuring three cameras that I’ve wanted to review that either didn’t work, or was otherwise unable to shoot. I am republishing each of those individual reviews…
In November 2017, I reviewed the Kowa SET-R, a 35mm leaf shutter SLR made by Kowa Optical Works of Japan between the years of 1968 and 1970. That camera was my third Kowa SLR, the first two being DOA when I received them. As they say “third time’s a charm”,…
This is a Graflex Graphic 35 Jet, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Kowa Optical Works of Japan for Graflex, Inc of Rochester, NY starting in 1961. The Graphic 35 Jet is an evolution of the earlier Graphic 35 which itself evolved from the Ciro 35 and Cee-Ay 35 cameras. …
As I’ve done for the past 3 years at the end of April, I release a “Halfway to Halloween” post in my Cameras of the Dead series of 3 cameras that no longer work, but are worthy of mention. Each year, I come up with some cheesy tie in to…
This is a Kowa SET-R single lens reflex 35mm camera made by Kowa Optical Works between the years of 1968 and 1970. It was the third to last model in a series of leaf shutter SLRs made by Kowa, starting with the Kowaflex from 1959. The SET-R was the first…
Ernie Kaltenbrunner: Why do you eat people? 1/2 Woman Corpse: Not people. Brains. Ernie Kaltenbrunner: Brains only? 1/2 Woman Corpse: Yes. Ernie Kaltenbrunner: Why? 1/2 Woman Corpse: The PAIN! Ernie Kaltenbrunner: What about the pain? 1/2 Woman Corpse: The pain of being DEAD! Ernie Kaltenbrunner: It hurts… to be dead.…
