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…
Polaroid ProCam is the variant of the Polaroid Spectra camera. Polaroid introduced the Spectra system of cameras in the early 1980s. It was an all-new line of cameras and had a corresponding new film. Spectra film image format is a rectangular 9.2 x 7.3cm rather than 600 film’s square format. Most of the models utilize an arc-shaped range…
The Perfekta is a Bakelite 6 x 6 120 film fixed-focus box camera made by VEB Rheinmetall in former East Germany. The camera body was made in black Bakelite with cream-coloured controls. The original model of this Perfekta has a flip-up frame finder. The lens is an 80 mm f/7.7 achromat lens. There is an aperture control knob below the lens giving f/7.7, f/11 and…
Agfa PD 16 or Agfa Ansco Plenax was a series of folding cameras for type PD 16 roll film and manufactured by the Agfa company from 1935). Many models are distinguished only by the lens designations Antar (f/14) or Tripar (f/11). Others are designated “Plenax” (regardless of lens type), and this camera includes a few higher-specification models with Hypar f/6.3 Anastigmat lenses…
We are excited to invite you to the Youtube Premiere of the documentary video ‘Transformations’ by Dr. Unni Krishnan Pulikkal. Based on a series of photographs by Unni Pulikkal exhibited as part of the Cleveland Photo Fest, USA, 2019, this fifteen-minute video describes the history, concept, exhibition, and the making of this seminal body of…
Nikonos IV-A, an electronically controlled 35 mm focal-plane shutter type underwater camera, was introduced in 1980. Owing to its robust construction, it needs no additional housing for depths to 160 feet (50m). It can take interchangeable lenses. The most popular lens is the 35mm f/2.5 which may be used on land, sea, or air making…
The bright yellow Weathermatic-A was first made in the 1980s as a watertight camera with a built-in electric flash that could be used in water in depths of up to 15 feet or 5 meters. It has very large black control knobs on the top of the camera, perfect for use in the time of…
The Agfa Clack is a box camera produced by Agfa from 1954 to 1965.It is a simple, boxlike camera, with a single-element 95mm meniscus lens with built-in close-up lens and yellow filter. It takes 6×9 cm pictures on 120 film.
The Super Ikonta 530/2 is a folding camera in the Ikonta line, produced by the German company Zeiss Ikon. It takes 8 images size 6 x 9 cm on 120 type roll film. With an inlay mask it is possible to take 16 images size 4.5 x 6 cm on the same roll film. It…