Certo Super Sport Dolly, Model A
What I like about old folding cameras is how elemental they are. You get a lens and a shutter, but everything else is up to you. Plus, even the most straightforwardly styled of them look elegant. It’s...
View ArticleAnother Yashica-D
Is it possible to love a camera too much? Because I’m totally head over heels with my Yashica-D, a twin-lens reflex camera for 120 film. And now I own a second one. This one comes from the father of my...
View ArticleNikon N8008
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View ArticleNikon FA
Nobody could alienate photographers as well as Nikon could in the 1980s. The company did it by leading the way with automation and electronic control. We take all of this for granted today, but then...
View ArticleKodak Retina IIc
Hi and welcome to my film-photography blog! If you like this post, subscribe to read more in your inbox or reader six days a week. Click here to subscribe! You have to wonder what the point of the...
View ArticlePentax Spotmatic F
At last: open-aperture metering on a Pentax Spotmatic. It’s not like stop-down metering is hard. It’s just an extra step, and a quick one: flip the switch. Yet to be free of it! Exposure information in...
View ArticleKodak EasyShare C613 Zoom
Inexpensive cameras were crap during my 1970s kidhood and only slightly better during my 1980s teenagerhood. A basic new camera could be had for under $25, but most of them had limited utility and were...
View ArticleArgus C3
The third time, as they say, was a charm. I didn’t get on well with my first two Argus C3s. The first one chewed up my film pretty badly. I had trouble getting accurate focus with the second and...
View ArticleKodak Retina Automatic III
Automatic exposure control on a Kodak Retina? You bet, and it was about time. Yet some of the Retina cognoscenti look down their snoots at these, the Retina Automatics. They decry the whole series as a...
View ArticleOlympus μ[mju:] Zoom 140
Is that a zoom lens in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? Sorry, I couldn’t resist. It’s just that the Olympus μ[mju:] Zoom 140 packs an awful lot of zoom lens into a pocketable camera. But...
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