Author: wlungov

Developed and manufactured at the German subsidiary in Stuttgart, in addition to being a very beautiful and well-built camera, it was with it that Kodak launched 135 film, which is 35mm film already in a cartridge and ready to be loaded into the camera even in the clear,

Predecessor of the famous Kine Exakta for 35mm film launched 3 years later. Examples in the collection are already from the B model, which added slow speeds and was launched a little later in 1935.

The beginning of a legend. One of the most cult cameras in the history of photography. Extremely reliable and precise, a delight to use.

Leica standardized the lens mount and thus began developing a line of very high quality lenses as a way of compensating for the small size of the 24x36mm negative.

The name already evokes that this was a derivative series in several colors. A 127 film folding lens with 3 aperture options and 3 speeds in addition to B and T.

A box camera with excellent construction and finish. It uses 120 film and takes photos in 6x9cm format. A very good size for contact prints for the family album.

Adjustable soft-focus version of the famous Heliar. By turning a ring, an internal element of the lens is displaced, thus introducing a variable amount of spherical aberration which gives the diffuse effect in the image.

Little-known lens. Probably from the last years of the very old Hermagis. It’s a large format double-gauss.

In launching the revolutionary Leica A, Leitz also had to offer everything photographers would need to handle, process and enlarge the small 24×36 mm negatives that the camera made from film.

Paul Rudolph, the genius of Carl Zeiss, was in retirement, but had to return to work after the war. He created the Plasmats for Hugo Meyer, a concept that would later be continued by many other designers on many famous lenses.

Wood and leather camera box. Lens is a simple meniscus with f/12 aperture. In 6×6 and 6×9 formats for 120 film.