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June 4, 2025

Yashica Lynx 1000

Yashica Lynx 1000 Unlike most Japanese camera makers, Yashica did not go through the early camera styles and dug straight into the TLR models. It began in 1949 as an alarm clock maker, also making camera parts for the booming camera industry. The company name was Yashima, and it sold cameras under ‘Yashima – Camera’ in the US, shortened to...

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May 28, 2025

Steiner Brelland – Hunter 35

Steiner Brelland – Hunter 35 A couple of almost identical cameras have landed on my bench. The Hunter 35, a 35mm rangefinder, and the Brelland, a 35mm viewfinder. Other than the viewer and the engraved name, both are the same. Tracing back the manufacturer was easy, although searching for ‘Hunter Camera’ yielded tons of hunting/trail/wildlife cameras. However, once I ignored...

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May 3, 2025

Druopta Vega

Druopta Vega camera Druopta camera list Czechoslovakia was a country artificially put together in 1918 in a shotgun marriage as a break out of the fallen Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was made up of several reluctant ethnic groups, much as the make of post-war Yugoslavia. It was disintegrated in 1993, split into Czechia and Slovakia, the largest ethnicities. In an overall...

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April 30, 2025

Mimosa Mimosa II

Mimosa – Mimosa II Camera Camera collecting, as with collecting any other subject, can be a sign of some mental disorder, I hope minor. An entirely normal person will not invest resources in a collection of, say, matchboxes, spoons, lighters, or cameras. Having a pet takes less effort, costs less, and gives much more in return. I am yet to...

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April 19, 2025

Konishiroku Konica III M

Konishiroku Konica III M Konica I Konica II Bm Konica III Konica III M The Konica III M is the last of a Konica legacy 35mm rangefinder cameras that began in 1946, as Japan had bailed out of the post-war industry collapse, till 1959. This model was the last pro-use rangefinder that ushered Konica into the era where compact SLRs...

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April 19, 2025

Konishiroku Konica II B-m

Konishiroku Konica II B-m Konica I Konica II Bm Konica III Konica III M Rangefinders made in Japan in the 1950s. The Konica II is the second generation of the Konica post-war triplets, between the Konica I and Konica III. Each generation had several variants, all paving Konica’s way to the small circle of camera makers that lasted till the...

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April 9, 2025

Closter Family list

Closter IIa / Princess Junior Closter IIa Closter Princess Junior Closter family list Images The Italian photographic industry saw pioneers making cameras since the early last century, but products were meant for professionals. Mass market production began at the ‘Italian economic miracle,’ a decade that started some about five years after WWII had ended, where fresh faces entered the field....

Categories 35 mm/Italy/Viewfinder Comments: 0
April 7, 2025

ELOP Ucanett

ELOP Ucanett The Ucanette roots go back to Jena, Germany, where Franz Robert Neubert, a Zeiss engineer, found himself in the wrong part of post-war Germany. Hoping for a better future, he set up his shop under the Neubert name and began production of two camera models: the Elca, a simple 35mm camera, and the Neuca, a Leica clone leaning...

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March 29, 2025

Konishiroku Konica III

Konishiroku Konica III / IIIA Konica I Konica II Bm Konica III Konica III M The three early Konica 35mm rangefinder models, named I, II and III, were made from 1946 till the mid-1960s. Although they were of the same family, each generation looked and felt different. The early Konica I was a no-frills camera, a model that emerged from the...

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March 23, 2025

Konishiroku Konica I

Konishiroku Konica I Konica I Konica II Bm Konica III Konica III M The early 35mm format Japanese models were Leica clones, designed to closely resemble the tried-and-true model. The earliest of these models was the Nicca Nippon Standard of 1932, a US$13,000 worth of metal and glass if you stumble upon one. A year later, Canon followed with the Kwanon, which may fetch...

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