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A Miniature Masterpiece Rollei 35 TE Most of us are quite familiar with the name Rollei. There’s probably not a more fam...
08/18/2025

A Miniature Masterpiece Rollei 35 TE Most of us are quite familiar with the name Rollei. There’s probably not a more famous series of twin lens reflex cameras than the Rolleiflex. The heritage of those cameras goes all the way back to the late 1920s. And by the 1960s, Rolleiflex TLRs could be found in nearly every newspaper office - supplanting the 4x5 press camera as the standard tool of photojournalists....

A Miniature Masterpiece Rollei 35 TE Most of us are quite familiar with the name Rollei. There’s probably not a more famous series of twin lens reflex cameras than the Rolleiflex. The heritage of t…

I was recently browsing the web looking for info on a particular Kodak camera that had just come into my possession. Wha...
07/06/2025

I was recently browsing the web looking for info on a particular Kodak camera that had just come into my possession. What I ended up finding, though, was a master list of all Kodak cameras, their market dates and original prices. Somehow, all my years of internet research regarding cameras had failed to provide me this document before now. Perhaps it's because this data sheet was published in 1999, and I didn't think to look for it back then....

I was recently browsing the web looking for info on a particular Kodak camera that had just come into my possession. What I ended up finding, though, was a master list of all Kodak cameras, their m…

The last time I talked about a camera from Ricoh was back in November of 2023. And that camera was the Ricohmatic 225 - ...
07/01/2025

The last time I talked about a camera from Ricoh was back in November of 2023. And that camera was the Ricohmatic 225 - a medium format TLR. And while Ricoh did produce several TLRs, they were much more prolific with other formats - and 35mm especially. The Ricoh Singlex TLS And while you might think that you’re not that familiar with Ricoh cameras, if you’re Gen X’er like me, or a baby boomer, you probably are, you just don’t realize it....

The last time I talked about a camera from Ricoh was back in November of 2023. And that camera was the Ricohmatic 225 – a medium format TLR. And while Ricoh did produce several TLRs, they wer…

Simple 35mm Cameras with an Impressive Pedigree The Boley B2 (l) and B3 (r) The Bolsey camera story starts way back with...
05/03/2025

Simple 35mm Cameras with an Impressive Pedigree The Boley B2 (l) and B3 (r) The Bolsey camera story starts way back with a man named Yakov Bogopolsky - born into a Jewish family in Kiev in 1895. As a young man, he was always full of ideas for inventing things and became interested in photography. He eventually moved to Switzerland, changed his name to Jacques Boolsky, and began work on a movie camera that would eventually morph into one of the most famous 16m movie cameras of all time - the Bolex....

Simple 35mm Cameras with an Impressive Pedigree The Boley B2 (l) and B3 (r) The Bolsey camera story starts way back with a man named Yakov Bogopolsky – born into a Jewish family in Kiev in 18…

The Minolta SRT-101 started the quite popular lineage of SRT-series cameras from Minolta. Following the 101, we also got...
01/10/2025

The Minolta SRT-101 started the quite popular lineage of SRT-series cameras from Minolta. Following the 101, we also got the 100, the 102, the 200, 201 and 202, a few dedicated models produced for specific department stores, AND one - the SR-M - that had a built-in motor drive. In one form or another, and alongside some of their electronically-controlled bodies like the XE, XG and XD-series, the mechanical SRT series was produced for 15 years - all the way up to 1981....

The Minolta SRT-101 started the quite popular lineage of SRT-series cameras from Minolta. Following the 101, we also got the 100, the 102, the 200, 201 and 202, a few dedicated models produced for …

C'mon, you know you've always wanted to try it! Back about 30 years ago when I was a young photographer, I was mainly in...
11/25/2024

C'mon, you know you've always wanted to try it! Back about 30 years ago when I was a young photographer, I was mainly interested in 35mm and medium format. And as you’re probably quite aware, I’m still VERY interested in those formats. But back then, I really gave no thought at all to large format. I’m not sure why it didn’t interest me....

C’mon, you know you’ve always wanted to try it! Back about 30 years ago when I was a young photographer, I was mainly interested in 35mm and medium format. And as you’re probably quite …

A sad, sad story My last post was about taking my Nikon F2 on a fantastic road trip through the American northwest. It w...
11/22/2024

A sad, sad story My last post was about taking my Nikon F2 on a fantastic road trip through the American northwest. It was a trip I’d looked forward to for months. And while I was preparing for the trip, I had to make a decision on which camera I was gonna take. My first choice was my Pentax 6x7, but then I noticed that I had a haze issue with the wide-angle lens....

A sad, sad story My last post was about taking my Nikon F2 on a fantastic road trip through the American northwest. It was a trip I’d looked forward to for months. And while I was preparing for the…

Greatest Mechanical SLR Ever? Back in 1959, Nikon set the bar for a professional 35mm SLR with the release of the Nikon ...
11/21/2024

Greatest Mechanical SLR Ever? Back in 1959, Nikon set the bar for a professional 35mm SLR with the release of the Nikon F. That camera took a lot of design cues from Nikon rangefinders that were popular at the time. And at the same time, released an entire catalog of new lenses and accessories to support this new SLR format. It was a rugged system that photojournalists and other pros would come to depend on for their livelihood throughout the 1960s....

Greatest Mechanical SLR Ever? Back in 1959, Nikon set the bar for a professional 35mm SLR with the release of the Nikon F. That camera took a lot of design cues from Nikon rangefinders that were po…

The "Black Beauty" So, today we’re taking a look at the Canon EF - affectionately known as the “Black Beauty” - as it wa...
09/09/2024

The "Black Beauty" So, today we’re taking a look at the Canon EF - affectionately known as the “Black Beauty” - as it was only available in black. But I can’t help but wonder if this made the Canon F-1 jealous - as it was also only available in black. Hmm... The Canon EF "Black Beauty" The EF debuted in 1973, and it filled the position under the F-1 and above the FTb....

The “Black Beauty” So, today we’re taking a look at the Canon EF – affectionately known as the “Black Beauty” – as it was only available in black. But I can’t help but wonde…

Useful Tool for Macro Photography? So, when a dentist friend of mine was getting ready to retire, he was looking to get ...
09/06/2024

Useful Tool for Macro Photography? So, when a dentist friend of mine was getting ready to retire, he was looking to get rid of this camera. I had seen them for sale in the ads in the back of old photo magazines for years, but I’d never seen one in person. So, I thought, what the heck? I’ll see what I can do with it....

Useful Tool for Macro Photography? So, when a dentist friend of mine was getting ready to retire, he was looking to get rid of this camera. I had seen them for sale in the ads in the back of old ph…

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