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 thematic circuit that will cover the main silver based processes of analog photography throughout history, starting with the salted paper
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.
Resolution in photography refers to the ability to record detail. It concerns the film or digital sensor used, but also the optics and our eyes, as the end point of all images.
Jan/2026
Vitor Andrade, exhibition of photos taken in the Serra da Mantiqueira over 50 years, always with a Hasselblad.
Medium format 6×6 cm on 120 film, it was extremely innovative, precise and long-lasting. The example in the collection is a 501CM, still completely mechanical, manufactured in 2000.
Leica photography Right from the start, it was clear that Leica meant a new way of photographing. Not only because of the camera itself, but also because film, developing and enlarging photos formed a system unlike anything photographers were used to dealing with. Aware of this fact, Leitz immediately made this system available with reels…
A microscope manufacturer ventured into the camera market with an idea unlike anything else – a camera using cine film. It was a huge success and changed the history of photography.
Now the topic is the photographic scene at the beginning of the 20th century in terms of photographers: how they understood themselves in relation to their activity, whether amateur or professional?
In this tour you’ll learn how the Leica camera, designed by Oscar Barnack and manufactured by Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, was a revolution that changed the act of photography forever.
This tutorial shows how to retouch black and white photos, both by down-toning, to chemically lighten points in the photo, and by depositing pigments to darken points in the photo. The procedure can be used to correct flaws or creatively intervene in the photograph.