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…
The Zeiss Ikon Contina la is a rigid viewfinder camera manufactured in Stuttgart, Germany by Zeiss Ikon between 1954 and 1955. Its code is 526/24, where 24 indicates that it is a 35mm film camera. It has a small, centered viewfinder and flat lens front. Lens: Novar – Anastigmat 1:3.5 f/ 45. The minimum focus of the lens…
The Nikon F-301 (sold in the United States as the N2000) is probably the smallest Nikon 35mm film camera with a motorized film transport. It was introduced in 1985. This is a manual focus SLR with motorized film advance, and an automatic programmed exposure system controlled by TTL metering. It is the manual focus version of the N2020.…
The Stereo Graphic is a 35mm stereo camera that was made by Graflex from 1955-1960. It makes pairs of 24 x 23 mm pictures at each exposure. Viewing these images in a 3-D slide viewer creates a realistic 3D image. The camera has a fixed focus. The lenses are a pair of Graflex Graflar 35mm…
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…