Nikon F2 | Nippon Kogaku K. K.
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
Olympus 35DC | Olympus – 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…
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Super Ikonta B 532/16 | Zeiss Ikon
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Brownie Camera Nº 2 | Kodak
Brownie Camera Nº 2 | Kodak – 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…
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Rolleiflex | Franke & Heidecke
Rolleiflex | Franke & Heidecke – 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…
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Technika V 4×5″ – 9×12 cm | Linhof
Technika V 4×5″ – 9×12 cm | Linhof – 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…
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Studio Shutter
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…
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Kodak Amateur Flash Outfit | Kodak
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.
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Le Posographe | Kaufmann
Le Posographe | Kaufmann – 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 (real time in this case) and gives back a result that you can read and use. Every sliding rule or disks are also a…
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Collodion camera | maker unknown
Collodium Camera | maker unknow 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…
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Pixel’s anatomy – logical and physical
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…
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Making new roller-blind shutter cloth
Many old large format lenses, which are very interesting to use, have no built in shutter. They are called lenses in barrel. For a long time the most popular shutter used with them, normally in front of the lens, was the roller-blind type. The system of having a light proof cloth with a window that…
