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April 11, 2022

Kodak Retina Ia – 015

Kodak Retina Ia – 015 Kodak Retina Ia – 015 user manual Kodak Retina Ia – 015 current value Retina family page Made for the European market, the 015 is uncommon in the used market in Canada and the US. Other European models were manufactured in France, while this came out of Stuttgart. Similar overall appearance to the earlier 013,...

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April 3, 2022

Kodak Retina Ib – 018

Kodak Retina Ib – 018 Kodak Retina Ib – 018 user manual Kodak Retina Ib – 018 current value Kodak Retina family Still within the Retina I realm, Kodak introduced the Ib (018) in 1954. In the tried and true Kodak tradition, three years later they’d added two other cameras under the same name, the [019-1] and the [019-2]. As...

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March 28, 2022

Kodak Retina I – 010 / 149

Kodak Retina I 010 / 149 Kodak Retina I 149 current value Kodak Retina I 010 current value Retina family page Kodak kept the Retina I coming with several style groups, having minor changes within each group. Group 1, containing 117,118, 119, and 143, had a flat top with a center-mounted viewer. Group 2, the top fascia on the 126,...

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March 21, 2022

Kodak Retina IIa – 016 / 150

Kodak Retina IIa 016 / 150 Retina IIa 150 user manual Retina IIa 016 current value Retina IIa 150 current value At the heals of the successful early Retina camera models, being viewfinders, came an improved model, a rangefinder, under the Retina II umbrella. The first models, the Retina II 122 and 142, were sold in Europe, with no official...

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February 28, 2022

Topcon SLR family

Topcon SLR family in order of introduction. Topcon had an early start in SLR cameras, where the first models were groundbreaking. The affair lasted about twenty years, where the late models were lackluster reincarnations of the glorious ones. In the US, Topcon sold under Beseler’s name, while in OZ under Hanimex. Several other models were rebranded or made per distributors’...

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February 25, 2022

Canon Pellix

Canon Pellix / Pellix QL Canon Pellix user manual Canon Pellix current value Canon Pellix QL current value Since the great war, Canon made a name for themselves by making rangefinders and Leica-style cameras. However, the trendsetters of the time, the German camera makers of both sides of the partition lines, moved into the next step in photography, the compact...

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February 11, 2022

Olympus OM-10

Olympus OM-10 Olympus OM-10 user manual The current value of OM-10 variations: Olympus OM-10 Olympus OM-10 FC Olympus OM-10 Quartz The OM-1, the first in the Olympus OM camera line, was introduced in 1973 to a thriving reception. It had two slight variants and even a NASA version. Close on its heels came the OM-2, adding automatic control, and after...

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February 8, 2022

Olympus OM-2S / 2SP

Olympus OM-2S / 2SP Olympus OM-2S / 2SP user manual Olympus OM-2S current value Olympus OM-2SP current value The next Olympus OM SLR on my shelf is an OM-2S. In my library, I could find references to the OM cameras described earlier; this model seems to be out of favour. The only source describing it in some detail is the...

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February 7, 2022

Olympus OM-2

Olympus OM-2 Olympus OM-2 user manual Olympus OM-2 current value: OM-2 OM-2 Black OM-2 MD OM-2 MD Black OM-2 N OM-2 N black OM-2 N MD Two years after the OM-1 introduction, Olympus came out with the next great camera, the OM-2. Here they added an automatic option, the only feature missing on the OM-1. The auto mode is...

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February 4, 2022

Olympus OM-1

Olympus OM-1 Olympus OM-1 user manual Olympus OM-1 current prices: ON-1 OM-1 Black OM-1 MD OM-1 N MD After the war, the newly introduced 35mm format influenced the hobbyist camera styles into smaller models, away from the 120 / 127 formats. The war technology contributed to advances in optics, so enlargers for 35mm formats were now affordable, making contact prints...

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