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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.

Derived from the Cooke Triplet, this lens was launched as a more affordable option because of its simple construction and therefore lower cost, but today it has become a cult with a huge price upgrade due to its bokeh, which is considered to be wonderful.

Camera for snapshots on glass plates in 6.5 x 9 cm format. Focus adjustment and shutter Compound hidden in the front panel gives good aperture and speed options.

Lightweight, well-built camera in 9×12 cm format with double bellows extension for close-up shots

A complicated but very robust mechanism can pass up to 25 views in 3 dimensions in the 45×107 mm format. The effect is astonishing.

It was not possible to identify the manufacturer of this camera. Apart from the format, it’s a model with very common specifications for that era