Similar to the Spotmatic of 1964 but with a bayonet mount, the K standard. Being fully manual, very robust and affordable, this camera became something of a student photographer’s camera and remained in production until 1997.
Before electric bulbs, it was lamps like this one, using the mysterious ruby glass, that provided the safety light in laboratories.
A key concept for understanding the quality of photographic images and what makes lenses’ images less, maybe more, than mere copies of reality.
Feb/2026 – Records of Rio de Janeiro, produced with classic cameras, articulating landscape, architecture and everyday life.
An excellent inventory of the techniques and tools used to understand and produce naturalistic images. It starts with linear perspective and goes up to the invention of photography and also a discussion of color.
Excellent build quality and usually comes with the wonderful Heliar lens. In the 6.5×9 cm format, it’s a harmonious camera in its dimensions and very versatile in use.
The Praktica name came from 1949 as a robust SLR for the amateur market. In 1970 it introduced the metal curtain, through-the-lens photometry and the design that was to stay until the end. It was a huge success worldwide and shared the title of “student’s camera” with the Pentax K1000.
Extremely popular among SLRs, the Spotmatic is a camera famous for its simplicity, robustness and ergonomics. With the M42 thread standard, it also allowed the use of optics from many manufacturers other than the brand itself.
A thematic circuit that will cover the main silver based processes of analog photography throughout history, starting with the salted paper
A French super wide-angle lens much appreciated in its time. Initially Rapid Rectilinear, recalculated as an anastigmat, it is a symmetrical lens with a small aperture between f/14, but enormous qualities.
Resolution in photography refers to the ability to record detail. It concerns the film or digital sensor used, but also the optics and our eyes, as the end point of all images.
Jan/2026
Vitor Andrade, exhibition of photos taken in the Serra da Mantiqueira over 50 years, always with a Hasselblad.