Tribune | Thornton Pickard
At the time, it was a camera for beginners. Today it’s an extremely light and versatile camera with very generous movements. Originally for 3¼ x 4¼” plates, but this copy has been adapted to 4×5″.
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Kodak Retina IIa | Kodak AG
Totally different from the Retinas of 1934, the IIa is a much more sophisticated camera with a rangefinder in the viewfinder and coupled to the focus. But still with the leaf-shutter concept in the lens body.
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Monocular Slides
Very fashionable in the 60s and 70s, these small monoculars offered a huge view of the small slides produced, mainly by the Olympus Pen
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Vernaculaires | Clément Chéroux
The book discusses vernacular photography as photography that was not intended as a work of art. It includes amateur photography by ordinary people, but also professional photography with a utilitarian purpose.
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Pentax K1000 | Asahi Pentax
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.
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Lampe Pigeon with Cheminée Junius
Before electric bulbs, it was lamps like this one, using the mysterious ruby glass, that provided the safety light in laboratories.
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Circle of Confusion
A key concept for understanding the quality of photographic images and what makes lenses’ images less, maybe more, than mere copies of reality.
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Rio, brief inventory | Joao Paulo dos Reis Neto
Feb/2026 – Records of Rio de Janeiro, produced with classic cameras, articulating landscape, architecture and everyday life.
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The Science of Art | Martin Kemp
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.
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Bergheil | Voigtlander
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.
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Praktica | VEB Pentacon
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.
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Pentax Spotmatic | Asahi Pentax
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.
