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Argus Super Seventy Five Type: Faux TLR (The viewfinder lens is not connected to the camera lens) Lens: Lumar 8-16 65mm Shutter: B + 1/50 ASA: N/A Manufactured: 1954 - 1958 (May 1954 this Camera) Battery: None. The Super Seventy Five had several advantages over the regular Seventy Five which had a production run from 1949 to 1964. These included a focusing lens and a choice of 3 F stops 8, 11 & 16. One other advantage of this camera is that while it needs a 620 take up spool you can load a regular 120 film into the camera making respooling unnecessary. This is the only 620 film camera that I own as it's pretty easy to use 120 film in it. The date stamp on the inside 0554 meaning May 1954. The person I purchased it off on ebay said he had purchased it from the Original owner who had taken it on the Maiden Voyage of the QEII in 1969 from Southampton to New York. Of course there is no documentation of this but it's a fun story! More Info

Canon A1

Canon Demi Type: Zone Focus Half Frame Lens: Canon 1:2.8-22 28mm Shutter: 1/30 - 1/250 ASA: 10 - 400 Manufactured: 1963 - 1964? Battery: Selenium Powered. Canon's first Half Frame Camera had a sleek modern design and an uncoupled selenium powered light meter. One disadvantage though was that the shutter speed and F stop are locked in pairs that cant be changed. Specific F stops can be chosen in the Flash & B modes but then the shutter is locked at 1/30th. The shutter - F stop combinations are: F2.8 1/30 F4.0 1/45 F5.6 1/60 F8.0 1/90 F11 1/125 F16 1/190 F22 1/250

Canonet 28

Caonon GIII QL17

Konica Auto C35

Konica Auto S2

Konica Autoreflex T3

FED 5B

Lubitel 166

Monolta AF-S

(The Talker)

Minolta AFZ (Freedom III)

Miranda Sensorex II

Olympus Chrome Six IIIB

Olympus 35RC Type: Rangefinder Lens: Olympus Zuiko 1:2.8-22 42mm lens Shutter: B + 1/15 to 1/500 ASA: 25 - 800 Battery: PX625 (For metering only) Manufactured: 1970 - 1979 While the SP was the top of the line in these rangefinders the RC was the smallest. At the time it was reported to be the smallest all auto or all manual rangefinder camera on the market. It's form and function are simple, easy & quick to use. This one has a pressure plate code of 七79 which if it follows the same convention as the other Olympus range finders of the time was made at the factory coded 七in September 1970. The Serial number seems a bit high for this though so I'm wondering if its July (七) 1979. I either have an early model or one of the last models!

Olympus 35SP

Olympus OM1

Olympus ON1n

Olympus OM2

Olympus OM2n

Olympus OM3

Olympus OM4

Olympus OM10

Olympus Pen (Original - Model 3) Type: Half Frame Zone Focus Lens: Olympus Zuiko 1:3.5-22 28mm Shutter: 25, 50, 100, 200 & B ASA: N/A Manufactured: 1960 This was a lucky ebay find! An original Single Lug Olympus Pen (Model 3) made in 1960. The model 1's were contracted out to Sanko Shoji Co. in October 1959. These can be identified by the work "flash" being written on the aperture ring. The Model 2's existed for only a few months as Olympus took over production using a mix of their new parts and Sanko Shoji's old parts. The Model 3's were the first Pens made with all Olympus parts and can be identified by their single strap lug. In December 1960 the design changed slightly again as a second strap lug was added. This final design then continued until 1964.

Olympus Pen EE-S EL Type: Half Frame Zone Focus Lens: Olympus Zuiko 1:2.8-22 30mm Shutter: 1/40th & 1/200th only ASA: 10 - 200 Manufactured: 1965 - 1967 The EE Series of Pen Cameras followed in original Pen from 1959 & Pen S from 1960. There were many variants running from 1961 to the early 1980's. The EES was launched in 1962 and was made until 1967. In 1966 is was slightly modified to make it easier to load these are the EE-S EL models. The camera was designed to be used by amateur photographers with few manual control options. There are only two 2 shutter speeds 1/40th and 1/200th. The selenium powered camera meter decided which of the 2 shutter speeds to use in conjunction with the aperture chosen by the camera. It is possible to manually choose the aperture but the shutter speed is then locked at 1/40th.

Olympus Pen S

Olympus Pen F

Olympus Quick Flash AFL.

Olympus Trip 35

Olympus XA

Pentax 110 auto

Petri 7S Type: Coupled range finder. Lens: Petri 45mm F1.8 or F2.8 - F16 Shutter: 1 - 1/500th & B ASA: 10 - 400 Manufactured: 1962 - 1973 Petri 7S II: 1973 - 1976 I don’t think anyone would say that the Petri 7S is in the same league as the Canonet GIII but in reality it has many of the same abilities including the ability to be used in fully manual mode without the need of a battery. For me there is also 1 plus. I find the simple light meter on top of the camera convenient and easier to use than the “through the viewfinder” meter of the GIII & Canonet 28. If you are just thinking about giving film photography a try for the first time you could do a lot worse than buy a Petri 7S especially as they can be had in working order for around 20 dollars! I liked my F2.8 version of the camera (below) so much I splashed out another 20 bucks on the F1.8 version (above). Sometime soon here I'll give them a side by side test.

View-Master Personal Stereo Camera Type: Stereoscopic Shutter: B +1/10 or 1/100 Lens: F3.5 - 16 ASA: 5 - 100 Manufactured: 1952 - ?? by Sawyer The camera can take 69 pairs of stereoscopic images on one roll of 35mm film. This is accomplished by a clever "lens shift" mechanism which starts out in the "A" position to expose the bottom half of the film while the film is wound out of the canister and then in the "B" position the top half of the film is exposed while it is wound back into the canister. During the late 90's I made a few Viewmaster disks with this camera. The last time I used it was in 2000 when I hauled it to the summit of Mt. Hood and made a Viewmaster disk of the climb.

Nikomat FTN

Nikkormat FT2