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December 3, 2020

Yashica Electro 35

Yashica Electro 35 Preamble I was looking for a camera among the rangefinders and realized that there are Yashica Electro cameras everywhere. Six of them. I remember where I got two of the lot, where one was the first in my collection. Till now I had not looked closely at them, and it seems that although they carry different model...

Categories 35 mm/Japan/Rangefinder/Yashica Comments: 3
November 23, 2020

Walz / Lafayette Electrick

Walz / Lafayette Electrick Walz camera family list Walz Electrick current value Lafayette Electrick current value Walz / Lafayette Electrick user manual   The Walz camera brand shows little in an online search. It is mentioned on the fly as both a manufacturer and distributor, with no hard evidence to support either fact.  With Japanese camera brands, it is either...

Categories Japan/Rangefinder/Walz Comments: 0
October 30, 2020

Canon Dial 35

Canon Dial 35 Preamble On a bright summer day sometime in the early 1980s, I was negotiating the narrow streets of Salzburg, Austria. Being a medieval city and spread around a hill, streets are winding to boot. As a navigation instrument, I used a large sheet of paper printed in many colours, which, for the benefit of the younger readers,...

Categories 35mm half frame/Canon/Japan/Spring loaded/Viewfinder Comments: 2
October 8, 2020

Yashica Rapide

Yashica Rapide Preamble Yashica Rapide current value Yashica Rapide user manual The days are both early autumn and mid-Corona. Being of the at-risk population, I stay mostly at home. As the weather changes it is time to switch from summer shorts to track pants which are my winter at-home staple. However, my girth has shrunk from extra-large to a mere...

Categories 35mm half frame/Japan/Viewfinder/Yashica Comments: 2
September 13, 2020

Nikon EM

Nikon EM Nikon EM current value Nikon EM user manual To build a new tech product it takes several factors. First, to define a need or use, thereafter technical capabilities, then cost constraints and design limitation. Need or use are defined by how the maker sees the market today and in the future. Technical capabilities are both external – what...

Categories 35 mm/Japan/Nikon/SLR Comments: 2
September 3, 2020

Taron Chic

Taron Chic Taron chic current value Taron Chic user manual At the heels of the WZFO Alfa comes another odd, vertical camera, the Taron Chic. At the heels is not entirely correct as it refers to the order it is being presented on this site, where the Taron Chic was introduced a year earlier than the WZFO Alfa. The difference...

Categories 35mm half frame/Japan/Taron/Viewfinder Comments: 0
July 1, 2020

KMZ Zenit C / S

KMZ Zenit C / S Zenit C user manual Zenit C current value KMZ Zenit models list It is said that the Inuit have many words for snow, though it is a myth spread for a reason unbeknown. The English language, however, has plenty of words for stealing: Pilfer, swipe, thieve, purloin, plunder, ransack, pillage, loot, and many more.  All...

Categories 35 mm/KMZ/SLR/USSR Comments: 0
June 19, 2020

Yashica 35

Yashica 35 Yashica 35 current value Online research is much like panning for gold. There is information like sand, but only a few and far between nuggets of any value. Moreover, most of the useful information is copied over and over, just to create a critical mass for the search engine to bite. About five years ago I looked for...

Categories 35 mm/Japan/Rangefinder/Yashica Comments: 4
November 28, 2019

Topcon R

Topcon R / Beseler Topcon B Topcon R user manual Topcon R current value Topcon B Beseler current value Topcon made an unimpressive camera line from just before the war and ceased making them in the mid-1980s. The same cameras were sold by Beseler in the US, under different names, some similar while others bear no resemblance. The first Topcon...

Categories 35 mm/Japan/SLR/Topcon Comment: 1
November 27, 2019

Ricoh Singlex TLS

Ricoh Singlex TLS Ricoh made compact SLR cameras from 1963 to 2000, when digital cameras took over. Other than own brand, they sold via Sears and Kmart in the US, Foto Quelle in Germany and Universa in France. With the early models, they subscribed to the common in the market, whereas in the late 1980s, they climbed to the first...

Categories 35 mm/Japan/Ricoh/SLR Comments: 3

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