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December 31, 2022

Olympus 35 family

Brand Model Year Type Current value Internal Links Olympus 35 I 1948 Viewfinder Value Olympus 35 II 1949 Viewfinder Value Olympus 35 III 1949 Viewfinder Value Olympus 35 IV 1949 Viewfinder Value Olympus 35 Iva 1953 Viewfinder Value Olympus 35 Ivb 1955 Viewfinder Value Olympus 35 Va 1955 Viewfinder Value Olympus 35 Vb 1955 Viewfinder Value Olympus 35 Wide 1955...

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November 17, 2022

Canon Canonet family

Canon Canonet family The Canonet was introduced in 1961 as a low-cost advanced camera for a broader customer base. An automatic, plastic body viewfinder with a selenium meter around the 1.9 lens. Zone focusing with pictographs. It was received with great enthusiasm, about a million units sold. Its success had invited competition from fellow Japanese camera makers, such as the...

35 mm/Canon/Japan/Rangefinder/Viewfinder Comments: 0

November 10, 2022

Fujipet 35 EE

Fujipet 35 EE Fujipet EE user manual Current value: Fujipet Fujipet 35 Fujipet EE As (I think) other collectors, I buy cameras in two avenues. If something captivating comes my way, I will pick it up and also hunt for models I wish to explore. The Fujipet was unknown to me, and I grabbed it just for its intriguing name;...

120/Fuji/Japan/Viewfinder Comments: 0

October 19, 2022

Ducati Simplex

Ducati Simplex Ducati Simplex current value Ducati Sogno current value After WWI, Italy was rebuilding its industrial infrastructure, boosted by a government ministry created for this purpose. The traditionally industrial north saw heavyweights and entrepreneurs getting into industries championed by the Germans. Such was the Ducati family, who set shop in Bologna, making small engines and branching into optical instruments...

35mm half frame/Ducati/Italy/Mini camera/Viewfinder Comments: 0

October 5, 2022

Petri Color 35 E

Petri Color 35 E Fully Automatic Petry Color 35 E user manual Current values Petri Color 35 E Ihagee Exa 35 E Brown Phokina Compact 35 S Cosina Compact 35 S Petri Micro Compact In the 1960s, photography became accessible to all walks of life. The rigid contact print formats gave way to the Kodak 135 format, so old-style...

35 mm/Compact/Japan/Petri/Viewfinder Comments: 0

September 28, 2022

SEM Kim / Baby SEM

SEM Kim / Baby SEM SEM Kim current value SEM Baby current value Sometimes I feel I have to find another hobby. Looking for camera information online yields either an avalanche of primarily copy-and-paste information or hardly anything of value. Some years ago, I searched for Taron cameras, which coincided with the release of a movie starring a certain Taron...

35 mm/Compact/France/SEM/Viewfinder Comments: 0

September 14, 2022

Becnini Comet 3

Becnini Comet 3 Comet 3 / III current value The Italian camera industry, which is no more, had a few high-end camera makers and some that made cameras for all, to meet the up-and-coming hobby. The flag bearers were Ferrania and Bencini. I may favor Ferrania as my first camera, back in 1962 or about that was a Ferrania. Also,...

127/Italy/Viewfinder Comments: 2

September 3, 2022

Sugaya Minimax 110 EE

Sugaya Minimax 110 EE Sugaya Minimax 110 EE current value Haste makes waste. I was working on the Pentax 110 SLR cameras when I noted a remark about an obscure (to me) camera, the Sugaya Minimax 110 EE, being the forerunner of the Pentax 110 cameras. Before long, I had one on my desk. Besides physical size and format,...

110/Japan/Mini camera/Sugaya/Viewfinder Comments: 0

August 10, 2022

New Olympic Kinsi

New Olympic Kinsi Current values: New Olympic Semi Olympic Riken Semi Kinsi Riken Kinsi New Olympic Kinsi One of the obscure Japanese cameras with many fathers on record, depends on where you look. The model I have on my desk is marked ‘Kinsi’ on the front, ‘The New Olympic Camera Worlks’ on the side latch. The Kinsi is reported to...

120/Japan/Olympus/Viewfinder Comments: 0

June 29, 2022

Oehler Infra

Oehler Infra Oehler Infra current value In post-war Japan, about half a million allied troops stayed for nearly a decade. The economy was in tatters, so the allied poured much effort and money to rebuild it, not the least of which was the soldiers’ buying power supplementing it. There were few outlets for that cash, as GIs would only buy...

Karat/Obscure/Viewfinder/West Germany Comments: 0

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