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The Yashica company made a long line of 6×6 TLR cameras, comprising many models which were the result of a gradual evolution rather than radical change they are conveniently divided into knob advance models and crank advance models. The Yashica Mat - 124G has a four-element, 80mm F3.5 taking lens, of the better Yashinon variety. Focusing is via a ground glass screen, with a 3x diopter loupe for critical focusing, as well as a sports finder. The focusing screen is used with the camera at waist-level. The sportsfinder, incorporated in the focusing hood, is operational by pushing the front cover backwards. According to the Instruction Booklet, it comes in handy for snapshots or when shooting fast-moving objects at eye-level. No screen to check focus in this set-up though. The Copal shutter features speeds 1 to 1 500 sec., plus B. The 124(G) can handle both 120 and 220 film. Since the Yashicamat camera is basically a Rolleiflex copy, the controls take a similar configuration. Build quality is very good. Yashica’s are considered to be an excellent choice for entry-level medium format. The 4-element 80mm f 3.5 Yashinon (taking) lens cannot be considered of equal quality compared to the Rollei’s, however it produces very good results, especially when stopped down to f 8-16.

The Yashica company made a long line of 6×6 TLR cameras, comprising many models which were the result of a gradual evolution rather than radical change they are conveniently divided into knob advance models and crank advance models. Yashica-635 is a double format film TLR camera made by Yashica and introduced in c.1958. It is enhanced Yashica-D with the added ability to use 35mm film as an alternative to 120. To use 35mm requires an adaptor kit. This feature is very useful, effectively making two great cameras in one. When shooting 120 film, the standard 80mm lends itself well for landscape or architecture but lacks focal length needed for portraits. However, when loaded with 35mm the 80mm lens is ideal for portraits. Conversion kit includes mask assembly, pressure plate, take-up spool adapter and cartridge and adapters. The lens is Yashikor 80mm f 3.5 in Copal-MXV shutter with speeds 1-1 500. Rewind knob for 35mm is on upper left side of the camera. Among collectors, the 635 is more desirable than the Yashica-D.

The Yashica company made a long line of 6×6 TLR cameras, comprising many models which were the result of a gradual evolution rather than radical change they are conveniently divided into knob advance models and crank advance models.Yashica-635 is a double format film TLR camera made by Yashica and introduced in c.1958. It is enhanced Yashica-D with the added ability to use 35mm film as an alternative to 120. To use 35mm requires an adaptor kit. This feature is very useful, effectively making two great cameras in one. When shooting 120 film, the standard 80mm lends itself well for landscape or architecture but lacks focal length needed for portraits. However, when loaded with 35mm the 80mm lens is ideal for portraits. Conversion kit includes mask assembly, pressure plate, take-up spool adapter and cartridge and adapters. The lens is Yashikor 80mm f 3.5 in Copal-MXV shutter with speeds 1-1 500. Rewind knob for 35mm is on upper left side of the camera. Among collectors, the 635 is more desirable than the Yashica-D.

Yashica-D is a medium format film TLR camera made by Yashica and produced between 1958-74. Specifications Film 120 roll, picture size 6x6cm Taking lens: Yashinon 80mm f/3.5, four elements, Bayonet I filter mount Early models were equipped with coated three-element Yashikor 80mm f/3.5 viewing and taking lenses The last Yashica-D models were equipped with bright 80mm f/2.8 Yashinon viewing lenses; models with this viewing lens and the Yashinon taking lens are very desirable on the used market. Aperture: up to f/22, setting: by a thumb wheel just above the left side of the taking lens, aperture and speed numbers are visible in a coupled small window just above thetaking lens Focus range: 1-20m +inf Viewing lens: Yashinon/Yashikor 80mm f/2.8 Focusing: Fresnel ground glass screen, via a big knob on the right side of the camera, w/ DOF scale Shutter: Copal MXV leaf shutter, speeds: 1-1/500 +B; setting: a thumb wheel just above the right side of the taking lens Viewfinder: TLR waist level hood finder, Fresnel screen with grid lines, w/ flip up magnifying loop and flip down center for the sports finder.

The Kinax II is a folding camera for type No. 620 roll film, made by Kinax in Paris from 1946 to 1950. Several variants were made. It is a folder with a self-erecting bellows that allows no lens movements. The one shown at the right has a Berthiot Flor 1 4.5 F 105mm lens and an IPO shutter with self-timer, with speeds 1, 1 2, 1 5, 1 10, 1 25, 1 50, 1 150 and 1 350 sec. plus B mode and with a diaphragm that s stoppable down to f32. The lens is focusable from 1.75 m to infinity by turning the front lens element. It has a collapsible reverse Galilean finder with the ocular lens in a thumb wheel. This wheel with its distance scale allows correction of ocular height as means of parallax correction. In the camera back is a closable red film advance control window. Characteristic elements on top are the viewfinder ocular in the thumb wheel on top of the collapsed finder, and the two big metal buttons, one the unfolding button and the other the shutter release. The film advance key is positioned on the bottom, as well as the tripod thread.

The Nettar series by Zeiss Ikon was a successful range of folding cameras for 120 roll film. Several types for 6×9cm, 6×6cm and 6×4.5cm format with different lenses and even more different shutters were offered. Specifications The Nettar 516 2 is almost the same as a top of the range 515 2 but has a double exposure prevention system added and a Novar or Tessar instead of a Nettar lens. Film Format 120 roll film (6×9cm exposures) Lens Shutter combinations ## Novar-Anastigmat 1 4.5 11cm in a Telma, Klio or Compur leaf shutter essar 1 4.5 10.5cm in a Compur leaf shutter Double exposure prevention Viewfinder two frames.

In 1966 Yashica introduced the Electro 35, the first of a very successful line of 35mm rangefinder cameras with fixed Yashinon lenses. The rangefinder is coupled to the focusing ring and the viewfinder is parallax corrected. The Electros use aperture priority exposure with a stepless automatic shutter with speeds from 30 seconds to 1 500s. Metering is done by half depressing the shutter button. When the shutter speed for the aperture selected is lower than 1 30s, the viewfinder shows an orange arrow pointing left and an orange light is displayed on the top of the camera. Similarly, when the shutter speed would have to be faster than 1 500s the viewfinder shows a right pointing arrow and there is a red control light on the top. Either situation can often be solved by changing the aperture, but anyway the shutter will still fire. With the underexposed indication on, the photographer may consider using a tripod. The Electro 35 G was introduced in 1968 with largely cosmetic changes. The range of usable film speeds was extended a little up to 500 ASA. The lens was labelled a Color Yashinon to reassure the buying public that it was colour corrected at a time when the use of colour film was growing quickly. The Electro 35 GT was released in 1969 with a body painted black instead of the satin chrome finish.

Bolex (Bolex International S.A. of Yverdon) is a Swiss manufacturer of motion picture cameras and lenses, the most notable products of which are in the 16 mm and Super 16 mm formats. Dimensions 5 x 3 1 2 x 2 WEIGHT Approximately 28 oz. OUTER CASE Highly polished duraluminium body, covered in genuine Morocco leather. Metal parts are chrome-plated. FILM CAPACITY 25ft daylight loading spools of double run 8mm film. When a roll runs through the camera, only half the width of film is exposed. The spool is then reversed and run through again, exposing the other half. When processed, film is split and spliced together giving 50 for projection. Projection time at 16 fps for 25 roll is 4 minutes. THREADING manual, with no loop forming with the pressure pad opened the film is simply placed over a guide roller, threaded behind the gate, over the bottom guide roller and onto the takeup spool. MOTOR Constant speed, spring motor mechanism governor controlled. Generous winding key, attached to the camera, folds back against its side when not in use. Spring cannot be over-wound. LENS MOUNT Accommodates one standard D mount lens. VIEWFINDER optical type engraved markings show field of view for wide, standard and telephoto lenses. Accessory prism attachments allow for filming with 5.5mm lenses, and for parallax correction while filming at close distances. SINGLE SPEED Standard 18 frames per second. RELEASE BUTTON continuous exposures can be made by a sliding release lever or cable release. The lever can be locked to prevent accidental exposures, or set for continuous hands-free filming. SHUTTER 165 degree disc shutter gives an exposure time of 1 43rd second at 18fps. FOOTAGE COUNTER Precise reading of exposed film footage. Audible end-of-film signal. Resets to zero upon reloading.

The Nixe is a dual format folding bed camera for roll film or plates. It was made from c.1910 by ICA in Stuttgart, and was one of the ICA models continued by Zeiss-Ikon after its creation in 1926 and manufactured until 1934. The Nixe was available in two sizes, A and B and was a well featured camera, having rise and cross front movements, double extension bellows, a removable rollfilm back which could be replaced by a ground glass screen and plateholders, and had both a brilliant and a wireframe viewfinder. The specifications of the cameras changed during the long production run, and were available with a number of different lenses, a list which includes Tessar, Dominar, Hekla and Double Protar. Under Zeiss Ikon the Nixe was given the Zeiss Ikon catalogue numbers 551 17 and 551 6 for the Nixe A and Nixe B respectively[1]. The Nixe A was available with either a Tessar or Dominar f4.5 135mm lens for 8x10.5cm images on 122 film, or 9x12cm plates. The Nixe B had a f4.5 150mm Tessar for 8x14cm exposures on rollfilm or 9x14cm plates.

The Franka Rolfix was a series of self-erecting folding cameras for type No. 120 film rolls. It was launched in 1935. All Rolfix cameras were for full medium format 6x9cm, and several variants had the half-frame option for 4.5x6cm image format. The 1954 model Rolfix II E even had a built-in rangefinder

Bentzin was a German camera manufacturer based in Görlitz, Saxony. The company was founded by Curt Bentzin ( 8. February 1862, † 23. May 1932). Bentzin was well-known for his innovative and high-quality cameras (f.e. Primar, Reflex-Primar, Primarette and Primarflex). Curt Bentzin used the name Primar for most of its models. This is a folding plate at 9X12 with double expansion bellows . It is equipped with a Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 1 4.5 f 13.5 cm and with a shutter Compur 1 at 1 200th It is possible to perform vertical and lateral decenterings as indicated by the screw on the right bracket of the lens holder plate and the small key with fins at the bottom of that bracket . Referred two possible types breast viewfinder with a red bubble level and iconométrique sports viewfinder.

Retina Ib is a 35mm film folding viewfinder camera made by Kodak AG and produced between 1954-57 with quantity about 161,000 units. The Retina Ib was introduced at the Photokina 1954. It had the new fast Synchro-Compur shutter with light-value setting mode. That means that several appropriate aperture shutter-speed settings easily could be found when the actual light value was preset. It lacks a rangefinder. Retina Ib (and the later IB models) are equipped with the sharp Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 2.8 50 lens. The front element can be removed just as with the IIc C and IIIc C models, but the reason for that is that the camera used the same bayonet mount for the front element to simplify production. The Ib IB can t use the wide angle and tele accessory lenses.

Astro-net store speedex miniature spy camera case tiny vintage old antique hit classic mini prev stop play next speedex miniature spy camera this miniature speedex camera was made in japan in the 1950 s. The camera looks just like a tiny rangefinder camera, together with its little brown leather case. It used tiny 16mm paperbacked rollfilm. This camera is about 1 1 2 tall and 2 long. A quarter coin is shown in one photo for size comparison. The yellow window is in the back, and the film spool is inside. It comes with the original brown leather case with a red felt interior. This tiny camera displays very well. This is a classic 60 year old miniature speedex camera.

The Kodak Folding Brownie Six-20 and the Kodak Six-20 Folding Brownie are viewfinder folding cameras for making 2¼×3¼ inch exposures on No. 620 rollfilm. They were made by Kodak Ltd. in the UK. The first model is named on the faceplate Folding Brownie Six-20 and was made from 1937-1940. It has a fixed-focus Meniscus lens in a Kodette II shutter. A Brilliant finder was an optional extra from 1938. The second model is labelled on the baseplate Six-20 Folding Brownie and was made from 1948-1954. The lens is a focussing 100mm f6.3 Anaston in a Dakon shutter with an ASA flash contact. There is a swinging cover over the red window on the back.

The All Distance Pocket is a folding roll film camera of simple specification and designed to be an easily portable camera for family snapshot photography. It is a well constructed camera having a pressed metal body and baseboard, and is of the extending front type. The camera front which carries the lens and shutter, is attached to the body by leather folding bellows, and in use, extends from the body on rails mounted on the folding baseboard. The camera is opened for use by pulling out the baseboard support leg, which also acts as a latch for the camera front. This action causes the baseboard to fall forward, supported from the body by two quadrant struts, and lock into place. The lens panel can then be moved into place along the rails, by pressing and pulling on a knob at the base of the lens panel. The lens panel is returned to its folded position by reversing the procedure. Finally the camera is closed by pushing gently on each side strut which unlocks the baseboard and allows it to fold back to its closed position. The camera is designed to take 8 exposures 6 X 9 cm on 120 size film. It is fitted with a 10.5 cm meniscus lens of maximum aperture f8. (note this lens is not designated in any way and the maximum aperture is by my calculation based on an assumed focal length of 10.5cm and my measurement of the lens diameter). The lens aperture may be set at two alternative stops (probably f11 and f16) by means of a sliding quadrant lever below the lens panel. Movement of this lever rotates a disc, containing the alternative apertures, behind the lens. . The forward location Portraits probably sets the focus to about 10 feet, which at maximum aperture would give a Depth of Field of about 8 to 13 feet and for the format size, would be quite suitable for portraits.

The Yashica Diary is a 35 mm viewfinder camera made by Yashica in 1978. The camera has an unnamed, coated 38 mm f 2.8 lens, a Tessar-type according to Japanese collector Minocat , with scale focusing by zone symbols. It has only programmed automatic exposure, with a CdS meter cell mounted inside the filter ring, and shutter speeds from 1 60 to 1 360 second. A needle meter scale, showing what aperture will be used, is visible in the brightline viewfinder, and a red low-light warning lamp in the VF appears at light levels below EV 8 the shutter is then locked. The camera has a built-in flash, which retracts into the top housing. Popping the flash up (by pressing the top of it a simpler action than on some other Yashica cameras, such as the 35 MF) puts the camera into auto-flash mode.[2] There is a self-timer, with the lever on the front right of the body (concealed by the lens in the picture here). The camera s name refers to its built-in date-imprint function. Minocat states that the Diary is the first Yashica camera with such a feature, and notes that it can imprint the day of the week, in addition to the date, month and year. Notes on the camera at Collection Appareils describe it as a derivative of the ME 1, which it closely resembles, but which does not have the flash or date functions. Minocat describes the Diary as one of a group of three similar cameras introduced at around the same time (the others being the Flasher and the Snap), but notes that, though similar in use, the Flasher has a different lens. The Diary requires two AA batteries some other Yashica cameras with CdS metering, such as the 35 MF also require a mercury cell to power the meter.

The Electro 35 is a rangefinder camera made by Japanese company Yashica from the mid-1960s with a coupled and fixed 1 1.7 45 mm lens. It was the first electronically controlled camera, operating mainly in an aperture priority auto mode. The only other modes of operation are flash (1 30th) and bulb . The original Electro 35 was introduced in 1966. It has a cold accessory shoe and the meter accepted film speeds from 12 to 400 ASA. Light levels are measured using a cadmium sulphide (CdS) photoresistor and powered by a mercury battery. The film speed adjustment is not implemented electronically instead a simple twin-bladed diaphragm closes in front of the light sensor as the film speed is reduced. The light metering electronics works by accumulating the measured light level and only releasing the shutter when it has determined enough light has fallen on the film. The Electro 35 G was introduced in 1968 with largely cosmetic changes. The range of usable film speeds was extended a little up to 500 ASA. The lens was labelled a Color Yashinon to reassure the buying public that it was colour corrected at a time when the use of colour film was growing quickly. The Electro 35 GT was released in 1969 with a body painted black instead of the satin chrome finish. The Electro 35 GSN (satin chrome) and GTN (black) were introduced in 1973. The major change for these cameras was the addition of a hot shoe while keeping the PC socket.

Shanghai Seagull Camera Ltd is a Chinese camera maker located in Shanghai, China. Seagull is the oldest camera maker in China. The product line of Seagull includes TLR cameras, SLR cameras, folding cameras, CCD and SLR camera lenses, large-format cameras, film, night vision scopes, and angle viewfinders. Seagull s cameras usually use basic, time-tested mechanical designs that require no batteries. Seagull has made 21 million cameras since it was founded in 1958. The Phenix 205 (fèng huáng 205 phoenix 205) or Seagull 205 was a rangefinder camera with coupled rangefinder and 1 2.8 f 50mm lens. The first two digits of the camera number stand for the year, the rest is the number of the production. The first year Seagull 205 was officially put into market was 1969. There were two editions, one is Shanghai edition, the other is Jiangxi edition. This could be distinguished by the logo of the camera. Jiangxi factory started using its own brand Phenix 205 in 1983.

The MF-2 is a 35mm viewfinder camera made by Yashica in 1971. It is a highly-simplified version of the MF-1, itself the successor to the 35 MF. It has a fixed-focus f 4 lens. Whereas the MF-2 has programmed auto-exposure, using the CdS meter cell on the front of the lens to vary both shutter speed and aperture programatically, on the MF-2, the meter cell serves only to warn of under-exposure, by a red LED in the viewfinder. The camera has a fixed shutter speed of around 1 125 second (reduced when the flash is used). The film speed control can be set to ISO 100 or 400, and this sets one of two fixed apertures. The camera uses 2 AA batteries to power the pop-up flash and the meter cell. The MF-2 Super DX has Type 38 mm lens shutter camera with built-in flash, 38mm Yashica Lens, Mechanical Shutter, automatic film speed setting with DX coded film.

The Nettar series by Zeiss Ikon was a successful range of self-erecting folding cameras for 120 roll film (often described as B2 6x9 film). Several types were offered for 6×9cm, 6×6cm and 6×4.5cm format, with different lenses in a variety of shutters. Zeiss Ikon also produced a Nettar equipped with an exposure meter, the Nettax (513 16). Zeiss Ikon always advertised the Nettar series as being for the amateur photographer. Nevertheless these cameras share many parts with the much more expensive Ikonta series (e.g. body and struts). The Nettar series may lack the higher specified lens shutter combinations and things like film type and speed memo discs but the observed built quality is en par with that of the Ikontas.

Kodak Brownie No.2A Model B and C are medium format film box cameras made by Eastman Kodak Co. Rochester, N.Y., USA. and also by Canadian Kodak Ltd., Toronto, and Kodak Ltd.,UK. and produced between 1920-24. The successor of Model B is Brownie No.2A Model C produced between 1924-33. It is same with Model B except metal body. Specifications Film roll 116 film, picture size 6.5x10.5cm Lens simple meniscus lens type, behind the shutter Aperture three hole, 5.6-f 16 setting by Exposure slide tab on top of front plate Focusing fixed focus Shutter simple spring rotary shutter, one speed 1 50 Cocking lever and Shutter release by the same lever, press once downwards, shutter hole opens and closes, for the next exposure press upwards the lever, on the right side of the camera Viewfinder two eyepieces, reflecting type brilliant finders Winding lever on the right lower side of the camera Red window on the back of the camera Film loading the wooden box slides out from the front and film loading part of the camera by loosening the latches Body box wooden, (Model C metal) film loading parts metal.

Twin-lens reflexes bearing the Minolta name had been offered as early as 1937. The Autocord series went through a large number of minor variations during its lifespan between 1955 and 1966—at least 17, by one count. Autocords use a focus lever that protrudes from below the lensboard. This focusing mechanism is also found on all postwar Flexarets, beginning in 1945, according to McKeown. Specifications Main Lens - The Autocord has two lenses the taking Rokkor, which is a 75mm f 3.5 lens and the viewing Rokkor, which is a 75mm f 3.2 lens. Both take Rollei Bayonet-1 filters. Spacing between the lenses is normal, and the Minolta Autopole accessory fits over them (this is a set of geared, synchronized polarizers that shows you in the viewfinder what the effect will be on film). Viewfinder - the viewfinder is a plain ground glass with hairlines to show the frame. There is a pop-down magnifier and sportfinder. I have found this quite a bit easier to focus than the laminated-glass Rollei 3.5MX finders, despite the fact that the viewing lens is slower. Spiratone once made a split-screen groundglass, and you can certainly have a brighter screen cut (Beattie, etc) if you want. I would recommend cutting a piece of the Office Max fresnel bookmark magnifier and dropping it into the finder. Works wonders for this or any other TLR. Autopole - where would we be without this accessory A geared dual polarizer that shows you the polarization effect, exactly as it will be on film. Works with Rolleiflex 3.5MX, too.

Autopack 450E is a pocket cameran manufactured by Minolta Camera Co. Ltd, Japan in 1970s. Specifications Year of release 1977 Films Type 110 16mm film cartridges Lens Rokkor 1 3.5 26mm (4 elements in 3 groups), built-in close-up lens shiftable over lens Focusing manually with help of symbols Shutter speed 1 200 sec. Aperture manual control, f 3.5 or f 11 in normal mode or distance dependent in flash mode Viewfinder bright frame finder with parallax correction, LED indicator for insufficient light, and selected distance displayed Flash built-in, with range of 12 feet at film speed 100 ASA Dimensions 162×59×28mm Weight 235 g

Yashica’s exciting new palm-sized Profile Zoom 4000 IX Advanced Photo System camera has a unique ergonomic shape that makes it fun and easy to grip the compact camera and take great shots. The shutter, zoom lever and other controls are all positioned for easy fingertip access. This camera was built in 1998 by Kyocera Corporation, Japan. It has a wide zoom range from 30 to 120mm. The shutter is electronic, with speeds from 3 sec. to 1 500 sec. Its design is derived from that of the bigger Yashica Samurai 35mm half-frame SLRs which both resemble camcorders of the 1990s. But the 4000ix is just a viewfinder camera, a modern fully automatic compact camera that uses APS film.