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8Jul 202110 Jul 2021

Voigtländer Vitessa L (type 140)

This is the Vitessa type 140 (L). It is a “barn door” rangefinder produced by Voigtländer in the early 1950s.…

15Apr 20218 May 2021

Leidolf Lordomat

This is the Leidolf Lordomat, a wonderful rangefinder made in circa 1953 in Wetzlar, Germany, home to Leitz. Though considerably…

28Mar 202128 Mar 2021

Hanimex Amphibian 35

This is orange, bulky beast is the Hanimex Amphibian 35, an underwater camera circa 1983. Nine-year-old me would have absolutely…

Minolta SRT-MC

12 Oct 202012 Oct 2020

This is the Minolta SRT-MC, a well-built and capable SLR made between 1973 and 1975 by Minolta. History The precursor to Minolta, Nichi-Doku Shashinki Shōten, was established in 1928 by…

LaRose Rapitake

This is the La Rose Rapitake, a neat vertical oriented viewfinder camera that takes 35mm film in special "rapid" cassettes. The body is all-metal with an advance, shutter-cocking, and shutter…

A.C.Kemper Kombi

6 Oct 20206 Oct 2020

This is the Kemper Kombi Camera and Graphoscope, an interesting combination box camera and viewer from 1892 manufactured by Alfred C. Kemper in Chicago, Illinois. As a camera, one of…

Minolta Freedom Zoom Explorer

5 Oct 20205 Oct 2020

This is the Minolta Freedom Zoom Explorer, on loan from Adam Paul, a fun P&S with "panoramic" mode and date function. On power up the lens is exposed and the…

Toko Teleca

This is the Toko Teleca, not to be confused with the Ricoh Teleca 240 (on my to-get list as it is a half-frame camera), a subminiature camera incorporated into a…

Sears Tower 45 (Nicca 5L)

3 Oct 20204 Oct 2020

This is the Sears Tower 45 (or 46 depending on what lens shipped with the body). Unfortunately I do not have the original lens, so it is paired with a…

Continental TXL

18 Sep 20201 Oct 2020

This is the Continental TXL fixed-lens camera, a Chinese interpretation of older Fujica cameras, likely the Fujica Flash series. Thought not made of the highest quality materials, the camera has…

Vintage Digital: Sony Mavica MVC-FD200

8 Sep 20208 Sep 2020

This is the Sony Mavica MVC-FD200 Dual Media digital camera. This 2.0MP beast is from 2002 and can use both the original Sony Memory Stick or 3.5" floppy discs, the…

Rollei 35RF

13 Aug 202014 Aug 2020

This is the Rollei 35RF, one of the newer film cameras in my collection. It is based on a Cosina chassis similar to the Voightländer Bessa R2A and Bessa L.…

Vintage Digital: Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 (and LX5)

12 Aug 202012 Aug 2020

This is the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 digital camera from 2008. Also shown is the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5 from 2010. The LX3 is an amazing camera and the LX5 builds on…