The simple Spartus Full-Vue plastic pseudo-TLR was made from 1948 to 1960 by American manufacturer Spartus, later Herold Products. This model exposes 2¼” square images on 120 film. It includes a 100mm f/16 meniscus taking lens, and a shutter with 1/60th sec and “T” settings. The lens of its viewfinder is larger in diameter than…
The Praktica FX is a relatively early member of the Praktica family, a 35mm SLR introduced by KW in 1952. It accepts M42 lenses but does not have a mechanism for internally stopping down later lenses such as those made for Pentax SLRs. It is named for its dual flash sync: F (for high-speed bulbs)…
Leica R4s is a 35mm SLR film camera made in Portugal. Presented in 1983, it was based on improved electronic features like TTL flash metering and exposure modes. The R4s (S stood for Simplified) was the simplified version of the R4. The dual metering system of this camera provides spot measurements and keeps updated on the…
The Leica Mda DBP is a 35 mm rangefinder camera produced by Ernst Leitz GmbH, Germany. Serial No: 1285996. It is especially dedicated to scientific use. It does not have a viewfinder which prohibits normal use. It is equipped with a shutter ranging from one second to the thousandth and B. The housing has separate…
The Kowa Six MM is an SLR camera for 6×6 cm pictures on 120 film made by Kowa, Japan in the year 1972. This is the first camera with built-in mirror-up and multiple exposures (multi-explorer). MM is an acronym for two functions. Lens: Kowa 55mm f/3.5 (8 elements in 7 groups) Vivitar 67mm UV Haze Filter. Shutter:…
The Werra l is a 35mm viewfinder camera manufactured by the Carl Zeiss Jena factory which was primarily a lens-making plant. These cameras offer a high degree of control with a minimum number of levers, knobs or rings. In their simplest incarnations, the Werras featured only a shutter release button on the top plate. With…
The Univex Mercury is a half-frame viewfinder camera with rotary disc shutter cassettes. The Mercury II is a post-War reincarnation of the Mercury I, produced by Universal Camera Corp U.S.A from 1945. The Mercury II cameras accept standard 35mm cassettes. Type: viewfinder camera. Lens: Tricor f/3.5 35mm (non coated). Shutter: Rotary metal focal-plane shutter with…
The Rolleicord III was produced from 1950 – 1953, by Franke & Heidecke and later on by Rollei-Werke in Braunschweig, Germany. It is a medium format TLR camera that uses 120 film. Twelve 6×6 cm square images can be captured for each roll of 120 film. There is also a Plate adapter available which gives…
Great Ice bridge and sightseers at Niagara. Stereoscopy is a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by means of stereopsis for binocular vision. Most stereoscopic methods present two offset images separately to the left and right eye of the viewer. These two-dimensional images are then combined in the brain…
Bell & Howell/Canon Canonet 19 is a 35mm 24×36 rangefinder camera. It is the first device of the brand to bear the name of Canonet. And even if the distributor Bell & Howell renamed it Canonet 19 for its needs, its serial name remains “Canonet”. In the Canonet range, the figure will always correspond to…