The simplest and most direct role of photography is to record the photographer’s own day-to-day life. Unpretentious but very attentive, Décio Badari shows affection for his subjects by making full use of photography’s plastic resources to create images that tell stories and evoke memories. This is photography at its best.
9x30cm negatives on roll film covering an angle of 142º. The rotating lens system allows for very convincing panoramic shots, even with a simple lens, just a meniscus.
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″.
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.
Very fashionable in the 60s and 70s, these small monoculars offered a huge view of the small slides produced, mainly by the Olympus Pen
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.
Feb/2026 – Records of Rio de Janeiro, produced with classic cameras, articulating landscape, architecture and everyday life.
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 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.