Tag: Fujifilm Fujicolor 200
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Kodak Pony 135
If I polled the world’s camera collectors, I’ll bet most of them would say they have owned a Kodak Pony 135. Further, I’ll bet most of them would say they didn’t plan to buy one, but they found one for a few dollars and they couldn’t resist. Kodak made a lot of Ponies from 1949…
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Agfa Optima
Setting your own aperture and shutter speed is such a draaaaag, man. Only hardcore photographers dig doing it. Therefore, every camera manufacturer on Earth has tried to simplify exposure for the casual photographer. The simplest consumer cameras (such as Kodak’s Brownie) fixed the aperture and shutter speed so the photographer needed only to frame the shot…
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Canon AF35ML (Super Sure Shot)
It felt weird buying this camera. I buy old cameras, and this one just doesn’t seem old to me. But this Canon AF35ML is old, having been made in 1981. I was newly a teenager then, and somehow for me that’s when the Modern Era began. It’s a great dividing line in my life – stuff from…
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Zeiss Ikon Contessa LK
Zeiss Ikon is one of those names that makes camera collectors go weak in the knees and part with large sums of money. Those sums seem large to me, anyway, given that the most I will pay for a camera is $50. Zeiss Ikon’s optics are said to be worth tall stacks of bills, and…
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Yashica MG-1
The Yashica MG-1 is the last of the Electro 35 line, despite not sharing its name.
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Argus A-Four
Let’s get the details out of the way first, because few are available anyway. The Argus Camera Company of Ann Arbor, Michigan produced the Argus A-Four (or, as the camera proudly declares across its face, argus a-four) from 1953 to 1956. The A-Four takes good old 35mm film. Its plastic and aluminum body holds a…
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Olympus Trip 35
The Olympus Trip 35 is very good for what it was made for: easy, good-quality photographs while you’re out and about.
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Canon Canonet QL17 G-III
The Canon Canonet QL17 G-III is a lovely camera with a fine lens. I review it here.
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Canon Canonet 28 (with Canolite D)
Everybody who collects rangefinder cameras knows Canon’s Canonet line. Canon made 14 different models of Canonet from the early 1960s to the early 1980s, and sold millions and millions of them. When I wanted to add a Canonet to my colleciton, I was most attracted to the original 1961 Canonet with its “electric eye” (selenium) light…
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Minolta X-700
One of the great things about collecting cameras is that friends and family sometimes give you equipment they’re not using anymore. I’ve picked up many cameras that way over the years. It’s usually the junk nobody wants, but every now and again something really good falls into my hands. Such is the case with this…
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Minolta Hi-Matic 7
When I started collecting cameras again I thought I might build a rangefinder collection. This Minolta Hi-Matic 7 was the first one I bought. When I picked it up, the first thing I thought was “brick outhouse.” If I were to put a neck strap on it and hide it under my bed, if someone broke…
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Kodak Retinette IA
A review of the Kodak Retinette IA, a viewfinder camera for 35mm film.