Kodak Jiffy six 16 Series II was a medium format folding camera made by Eastman Kodak Co. Ltd., Rochester, U.S.A between 1937 and 1948. It had a Twindar lens with a distance selector. Only two apertures were selectable. But it had two viewfinders in the pop-out lens board, one for vertical and one for horizontal…
The FED 5 variant, the last Leica-derived camera design by FED, the FED 5C, appeared in 1983. This version has an uncoupled selenium light meter and projected (but non-parallax-compensated) frame lines in the viewfinder, but it lost the eyepiece diopter adjustment. It is a 35mm rangefinder camera that accepts Leica screw-mount lenses. It has a…
The Belfoca camera was manufactured by Belca-Werk Company from c.1950 to 1956. A vertical folding camera capable of capturing 6 x 9 cm exposures on 120 roll film. It could be used with a mask for 6 x 6 cm exposures. The frame finder, the optional accessory brilliant finder and the shutter release button on…
The Pentax M series cameras were noted for their compact size and are among the smallest 35 mm SLRs ever made. The Pentax MX was introduced in 1976 and was designed as a manual-only SLR system. It has a set of accessories that were mostly incompatible with the other M series cameras. It was very…
The Pentax KX was one of the three original K-mount 35mm SLR cameras introduced by Pentax as a replacement for the Spotmatic family of screw mount cameras. The K mount offered greater convenience and enabled the production of faster lenses such as the 50 mm f/1.2. The KX model was one step up from the…
The Pentax K1000 (Asahi Pentax K1000) is an interchangeable lens 35 mm SLR camera manufactured by Asahi Optical Co., Ltd. from 1976 to 1997. The K1000’s extraordinary longevity makes it a historically significant camera. It is the simplest member of Pentax K-series 35mm SLRs. K-series all have the same basic body design, but with differing…