In a significant move by PhotoMuse to find and recognize talent among amateur photographers, PhotoMuse jury selected the best pictures submitted in BAF-PhotoMuse Club on Facebook during the year 2015. Three photographs were chosen from all five categories – Pictorial, Contemporary, Portraits, Documentary & Nature. Five pictures were also nominated as Curator’s Choices. THE JURY:…
Isoly is a series of medium format viewfinder film cameras made by Agfa and produced between 1960-71. These cameras use 120 film for 16 frames of 4 x 4cm, the reduction of 6 x 6 cm. Diapositive films can also be used. They also offered a different lens option. Later cameras have the name Isoly I. Introduced…
The Pentacon six is a single-lens reflex (SLR) medium format camera system made by East German manufacturer Pentacon from 1966 to 1992. It accepts lenses with the Pentacon Six mount, a breech-lock bayonet mount. When the TTL-metered prism was introduced in 1968, the letters ‘TL’ was added to the nameplate but no other changes were…
The Bolsey B is a 35mm rangefinder camera with a cast aluminium body, introduced by Bolsey in 1947. The lens is a fixed Wollensak Anastigmat 44/3.2 with helical focusing, and the Wollensak leaf shutter gives T, B, 10-200 speeds. The rangefinder is of the split-image type, coupled to the lens but separate from the viewfinder.
Silette Rapid L is a 35mm film viewfinder camera made by Agfa and introduced in 1964. It belongs to the long-lasting Silette series. Silette is a name used by the German maker Agfa from 1953 to 1974 to designate successive generations of 35mm fixed-lens viewfinder cameras. The camera uses Rapid 35mm film cartridges. It has a…
The Polaroid Supercolor 635 CL camera is a box-style plastic bodied camera produced throughout the 80s and early 90s. It works with original Polaroid 600-type film. It is an instant camera. The instant camera is a type of camera which uses self-developing film to create a chemically developed print shortly after taking the picture. It…
The Kodak DC40 was among the first consumer digital cameras released in 1995. It was also marketed by Logitech as the Fotoman Pixtura. Its features include 756×504 resolutions (<0.4 megapixels) CCD sensor, fixed focus and a non-zooming lens (its coverage equaled a 42mm lens on 35mm film). The built-in flash is capable of distances of…
Kodak Cameo Motor 110 is a camera for 110 film. It was introduced in 1993. It was one of the last camera models for that film size. A little fixed exposure camera featuring a cobra style flashgun that doubles as a cover for the lens when closed. Film advance is motorized and a relatively fast…
Kodak Box 620 is a relatively standard metal box camera produced by Kodak AG between 1936 -1939. It has two points of note, a sliding lever giving three aperture stops and tripod sockets which are rather larger than the normal thread seen today. On German Kodak cameras, 620 are always written 620 and not six-20.…
The Brownie Special Six-16 is a wedge-shaped metal box camera manufactured by Kodak in the United States between 1938 and 1942. It features a built-in close-up lens for subjects 6 to15 feet and beyond 15 feet distance, but no flash capability. It also has a multiple exposure guard and tripod socket. The shutter release located…