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...
Ricoh 35 Flex Ricoh 35 Flex current value Ricoh 35 Flex user manual Another honourable entrant to the same-name-not-same-camera list is the Ricoh 35 Flex. Born in 1963, the first SLR from Ricoh was equipped with an uncoupled selenium meter. A year later, it saw a change to a CdS meter under the same name. Rest features and appearance unchanged....
Zeiss Contaflex My stepfather was a professional photographer, as had his father before him, at the beginning of the last century. His father did mainly family and events photography, where during the war my stepfather served in the British Army in Egypt, decoding aerial photographs and drawing maps. After the war, armed with a camera, he roamed all over Europe...
Mamiya Sekor 500 DTL Mamiya Sekor 500 DTL user manual Mamiya Sekor 500 DTL current value $20 is all it takes to get a fully-fledged 35mm film SLR in operational condition, as classic as the Bullitt Mustang. At about the same year Mr. Cool raced the said Mustang down San Francisco streets Mamiya came out with a revolutionary camera. Evident...
Mamiya ZM Quartz Mamiya ZM Quartz user manual Mamiya ZM Quartz current value Camera makers are often associated with a certain style. As from the top, Leitz is associated with rangefinders. Rolley with TLRs; Olympus, Canon, and Pentax with SLRs; Agfa with viewfinders; Graflex with press cameras, and so forth. All these makers produced other camera styles as well but...
Konica FT-1 Motor Konica FT-1 Motor user manual Konica FT-1 Motor current value A person who had been introduced to film photography in the past 30 years would take auto film advance for granted, let alone those accustomed to digital, where film winding is non-existence. In 1983 it was a novel idea. For an SLR. The Konica FT-1 does this,...
Konica Autoreflex TC Konica Autoreflex TC user manual Konica Autoreflex TC current value The epitome of the classic SLR of the ’70s, a light camera to carry with, no-nonsense features. A plastic body clad in black gives it the feel and appearance of an expensive shooter. The TC was made as a scaled-down version of the Autoreflex T, but I...
Konica Autoreflex T In the late ’60s, the Japanese camera makers came forward with a flurry of compact SLR cameras, almost indistinguishable to the layman’s eye. Konica’s contribution to the lot was the Autoreflex T, a solid camera both in function and weight. A step up from the Autoreflex, the T proudly stood in the first line of this class....
Kowaflex E 1961 saw the first man in space, Yury Gagarin, who had the merit to have a Zorki 4 special edition name after him. Another first happened that year, the first instant-return mirror in an SLR camera. It didn’t go as far as having a focal plane shutter but was an interesting combination of a leaf shutter in an...
