The Nikon FE is an advanced semi-professional level interchangeable lens 35 mm film single-lens reflex (SLR) camera. It was manufactured by Nikon in Japan from 1978 to 1983. The FE uses a metal-bladed, vertical travel focal plane shutter with a speed range of 8 to 1/1000 second, plus Bulb, and flash X-sync of 1/125th second.…
The F65 (Nikon N65 in the U.S. and the Nikon U in Japan) is a 35mm film SLR camera introduced by Nikon in 2001. It was aimed at the lower end of the amateur autofocus SLR market. Its features included autofocus, various forms of TTL light metering and different operating modes. It also included depth-of-field…
The F55 (N55 in the U.S.) is a 35mm film SLR autofocus camera introduced by Nikon in 2002. It was targeted at a new and lower price-point than the F65 (previously Nikon’s cheapest autofocus SLR). It is unique among recent Nikon autofocus SLRs in that it does not support autofocus on Nikon lenses with “AF-S”…
Konica EFP-2 is a 35mm point & shoot compact film camera with Hexanon 38mm prime lens. It was manufactured or assembled in Japan from 1984. It’s a completely plastic camera (except for the lens, a Hexanon 38mm). It has one shutter speed (1/60) and two ISO settings (100/200 and 400). It’s very simple and easy…
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…