Author: wlungov

A 35mm that is very much the miniature of one of the old Ikontas for 120 film. Fully manual and with good flexibility of speeds, apertures and focus distances.

With its minimalist design, the Werra is a very original camera. The film is advanced using a ring around the lens. Like almost everything from post-war Eastern Europe, it was in production for many years.

A compact 35mm, very well made and all manual. A camera that was popular and usually came with excellent optics, the Color-Skopar 50mm

After almost 30 years of the excellent Leica Barnack, comes the giant Leica M3. Considered by many to be the best camera ever built. Extremely versatile, precise and durable.

The first Zenit, manufactured in the USSR, was the Zorki rangefinder, a copy of the Leica, transformed into an SLR. It was designed to be affordable and durable. The model in the collection is more recent

A 35mm folding drop bed. Excellent build quality, very solid, very compact and a rangefinder attached to the viewfinder.

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.

A simplified version of the Exakta. It has an interesting shutter that uses the mirror mechanism itself, thus eliminating the need for curtains.

A 6×9 cm folding camera with a rangefinder in the viewfinder and attached to the focus. Very well built and with a complicated focusing system triggered at the top of the camera.

Another experimental design in this 35mm rangefinder with a rangefinder in the viewfinder and coupled to the focus: instead of focusing on the lens barrel itself, it is adjusted on a ring on the top of the camera

The same as the IIIc but now incorporating flash synchronization. 184,000 Leicas IIIf were produced between 1950 and 1957

This camera is well-built and very nice, but it was a late release of a concept that was already quite obsolete at the time.