Nikon's legendary camera. Design and construction excellence was crowned by immense success with the professional public, especially in photojournalism. Incredibly resistant, many are still in full working condition.
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– Olympus 35DC – Olympus – c.1970 – Very special camera from Olympus. It only works in automatic exposure with camera selected combinations of speed and aperture! There is a gauge, visible in the viewfinder, and it goes from 1/15 at f1.7 (lowest light condition) to 1/500 at f16 (highest light condition). It locks on underexposure. You...
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– Brownie Camera Nº 2 | Kodak | 1901/1933 – Very special camera. The film 120 was introduced in the market for the Brownies! The same film that fits Super Ikontas, Rolleis, Hasselblads and so many other top cameras. The red one is in excellent condition and was a gift from a german friend who received it from his father when he was a child. I have...
– Rolleiflex 3.5F | Franke & Heidecke | 1960/1969 – No doubt, this Rolleiflex is one of my pearls. According to Craig Camera this one bearing the number 2 802 974 was produced from 1960 to 1969 and it is said the “type 3”. It is a great pleasure to use a Rolleiflex. It is a fact that people behave differently in front of...
– Technika V | Linhof | 1974/75 – Considering photography as an affair between a light sensitive surface and a lens, that must be held in complete darkness, this camera is a superb darkness provider. Beyond be obviousness of varying the distance in order to get focus, it allows the lens axe to be freely positioned in relation to image plane in...
This is a very common shutter design used in large format cameras. Is is attached in front of the lens and opens from the center when the six blades are recessed inside the ring. This is not a shutter for those counting thirds of f stops. It is open while you press the cable release or you may set it to close automatically the moment it reaches...
In the beginning of photography the flash was something very close to fireworks. They were burned loose in the air, like in this kit from Kodak for the amateur photographer.
– Le Posographe | Kaufmann Inventeur-Constructeur | 1931 – This is a computer. It is, in the sense that you enter information on it; it performs some operations with that (real time in this case) and gives back a result that you can read and use. Every sliding rule or disks is also a kind of a analogic computer. But what a complicate one is Le...
– Collodium Camera | maker unknow | c 1862 – I bought this camera in June 2008 in Bièvres, France, during the annual foire photo. It is a collodion camera having a Darlot Cone Centralisateur lens, both in excellent condition. Collodion, also known as Wet Plate, is a process that produces a glass negative reducing exposure time up to 1 second...
An essential book and very pleasant reading. It is a good balance between technical aspects of lens construction, the challenges posed by the problems involved, and the people, companies and all those who left their mark in history of image making.
At the heart of digital world we find the “bit”. At the heart of digital images we find the “pixel”. The pixel was already know in Antiquity. But as for the want of fine electronics it used to be made out of little stones and “files” were called mosaics. The farthest we look to a mosaic the less we see the...