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A 1997 model from Canon s phenomenally successful Sure Shot range, this compact 35mm film camera - known as the Prima Super 105 in continental Europe and Autoboy Luna 105 in Japan - has an impressive specifications. Lens 38-105mm zoom, f 3.8-9.9. (6 elements in 6 groups, including 2 aspherical pieces for superb sharpness). Focus Three-point AI active auto-focus from 0.6m to infinity. Viewfinder Real image zooming, with framelines and LED ready and low-light warnings. Auto-loading, advancing and rewinding of DX-coded 35mm (25-3200 ISO). Small LCD with frame counter and mode icons. Shutter-speed from 2 seconds - 1 550s depending on mode. Auto-flash, with red-eye, forced fill, slow synch, and forced off mode. Range of 6m at ISO 100. (GN of 14). Recharge in 6 seconds. Real-time (RT) mode with shutter lag of just 0.03 seconds. Self-timer. Tripod socket. Power CR123A lithium battery. Dimensions 123x64x46mm Weight 245g

The Superzoom 105G is a 35mm compact camera from Olympus released in 2002. It is also known as the Infinity Zoom 105. It uses a 38 to 105mm 3x f 3.7 - f 9.5 zoom lens that is protected by a sliding cover. The minimum focus distance is 0.8m. There are a number of flash modes including auto, red eye, flash off, fill flash, night mode, and night red eye. Compatible with ISO 50 to 3200 DX code film non-coded film is set to ISO 100. Has a typical automatic first frame loading auto advance, auto rewind, with mid-roll rewind capability. Power is with a CR123A battery.

The Kodak Disc 6000 was once the nicer camera in the disc series. The nicest feature being the close up lens for portraits, which not only shifts an additional lens in front of the taking lens, but also slides a lens in front of the view finder for parallax correction. It also has a door which is used to protect the lens and buttons. In an effort to capitalise further on the advances in film technology and the popularity of the quick-loading Instamatic cameras, Kodak introduced the Disc format in 1982, but the ultra-small 8x10mm negatives were never very successful in the hands of Joe Public and his family and Kodak stopped producing cameras in this format in 1990. According to one source, Kodak produced 8 million disc cameras during the first year of production. As a point of interest, most, if not all, Kodak Disc cameras were fitted with aspheric lenses, the mass production of which Kodak had developed. Film for this format was withdrawn from production by Kodak in 1998, it is no longer manufactured by anyone. Most, if not all, Kodak Disc cameras have a four-character CAMEROSITY date-code, usually on the inside of the film door, near the hinge.

Minolta AF-E II (called Freedom 200 in America) is an autofocus compact camera and a simplified successor model to the original AF-E. It has motor drive, built-in flash and runs on either a photolithium battery or common AA batteries. It uses DX-coded films, but only at ISO 100 or ISO 400. It served as the basis for both the fix-focus FS-E II and the all-weather AF-SP. Specifications Lens 35 mm f 4,5 (4 elements 4 groups). Focus Infrared [autofocus] from 0,95 m to infinity. Flash Built-in, automatically activated with ready-light in finder. Shutter locked while recharging. Flash range (at ISO 100) 0,95—3,3 m. Metering EV 9,6–16,2 with ISO 100 film. Narrow metering angle. Crippled DX decoding either ISO 100 or ISO 400. Non-DX films are exposed as ISO 100. Film transport Automatic loading, advance and rewind. Power 1 x 6 V DL223A BR-P2N lithium battery or 4 x 1,5 V AAA alkaline batteries. Dimensions 132 x 69,5 x 48 mm. Weight 250 g without batteries.

Minolta Flash Gun Baby BC-III is a great tiny companion flash to any camera. This unit and a tiny, flat box of AG-1s ( AG stands for all glass) take up virtually no space in a coat pocket or gadget bag. The AG1 bulbs were introduced in 1959, I read somewhere. I have great fun using several old cameras and flash units which take AG-1 bulbs.

Kyocera, a ceramics company, got involved in camera production in 1983, when it acquired Yashica, producing models under the Yashica, Contax and Kyocera brand names. The company offered a range of Kyocera-branded compact digital cameras between 2000 and 2004, and announced its withdrawal from the camera market in 2005. Features Single-Unit convention and ease of operation. This KD-2010E video camera recorder combines the functions of a video camera and a video casette recorder in one lightweight, easy to use instrument. Full record and playback capability. It can record directly from the built-in video camera or with the RF converter, from a video audio source such as TV or receiver or another VTR. Video Audio played back by the KD - 2010E video recorder or fed directly from the KD - 2010E camera may be viewed and heard on a TV receiver or monitor. 8mm video cassette use. This video camera recorder uses 8mm video format cassettes. It records in the SP (Standard Playing) mode and the LP (Long Playing) mode and can play back in the SP and LP modes.

Main Flash only at wide 1 position, 30 in meter ASA 100 5o in feet ASA 25. 36 in meter ASA 100 (1 2 stop increase) at normal position. 42 in meter ASA 100 (1 stop increase) at telephoto position. Dual flashes, main flash 26 meter ASA 100 43 in feet ASA 25 at wide I position. Auxiliary flash 7 in meter ASA 100 12 in feet ASA 25.

This is a compact, precision instrument of finest optical design that offers clearer, natural viewing of all 2x2, 828, and Rollei super slides. Pictures have a new depth, a strong dimensional effect, when you view them, the Bi-Lens way with both eyes. Bi-Lens gives you the entire picture with no distortion or irritating color fringe . All this, plus a built in light that llows your full brilliance on demand. How to operate 1. Insert slide right side up in top slot. Be sure shiney side of slide is toward you. 2. Press light bar behind slide. Note thrilling new brilliance from the built-in light. 3. To remove slide, push it up from the bottom slot in viewer. No danger of touching and scratching transparency itself. 4. Now, your ready for the next slide. View as long as you like, without eyestrain, your seeing naturally, with both eyes.

This compact grip video light offers ideal lighting in difficult environments. The reflector housing can be easily focussed and tilted up to 90° upwards in 6 distinct steps for indirect illumination. The LX 1000 is equipped with 2 light hatches and a hand grip (on off switch). The package content includes a camera rail for camera and accessory fixation. The light can be optionally operated with 500W and 650W. Features Power 1000W 220V (yellow lamp color, 3000 k) Size Petite with big power, easy to carry and very portable. In complete hand-grip for easy hold and on the move. Highlight the lamp can be hadapkan up bounce and the future. In complete barn-door top-down to organize scattered light. In the complete holder lightstand and bracket made put on the side of the camera.

J. Lancaster Son was a photographic company, formed in Birmingham, England, in 1835 when James Lancaster started an optical firm for the manufacture of glasses, microscopes, and telescopes. Lancaster View Camera from around 1898. The company was an optician and camera maker, based in Irving Street, Birmingham. It was one of the world s major camera makers in 1898. It made wooden view cameras, among them several cameras for smaller plate formats. Lancaster made its own lenses and had patents for shutters. Other products were magic lanterns and photographic enlargers.

1960s. 120 film, 6x9cm exposures, strut-folding camera. Claudet Houghton was founded in 1834 by George Houghton and Antoine Claudet, and subsequently underwent several mergers that resulted in numerous name changes. The company was known as George Houghton Son (1867-1892), then as George Houghton Sons until 1903, and then George Houghton Sons Ltd. When the company merged with Holmes Bros., A.C. Jackson, Spratt Bros. and Joseph Levi Co. in 1904, the business became Houghton’s Ltd. Finally, in 1954 the name was changed for the last time, to Ross – Ensign Ltd. The company discontinued the manufacture of cameras, and was dissolved, in 1961.

The pocket Kodak No. 1 series II is a folding A120 film camera made from 1922 to 1931 (according to McKeown). It uses autographic rollfilm that was produced by Eastman Kodak between 1914 and 1934. All Pocket Kodak cameras had the autographic feature. The negative size is 6×9 cm or 2 1 4×3 1 4 inch. It has a Kodak anastigmat 108 7,7 lens. That s not a fast lens. The Diomatic No. 0 shutter has six settings, B, T 1 10 1 50 1 100 and 1 200s. That s not bad at all. It even has an exposure advice. Select aperture and lighting conditions dull, gray, clear or brilliant. At the shown aperture figures indicate required exposure as it states on the lever. Later models, like the Kodak autographic 2c, even have a rangefinder coupled to the lens plate to help focusing the camera instead of guessing the distance. The camera was designed to use A120 film. To benefit from this autographic feature, a stylus with an Art Deco look was included (just above the window). Very often the stylus is lost on cameras you find at photographica fairs. On the back of the camera, you find the obvious red windows used for framecounting. On this camera, a little advice was imprinted in the black leather use film No A120. Nowadays, all you can use is simple 120 film. Some version also came with use file No A116

This Rochester-made fixed focus camera is fitted with a single speed shutter and an aperture wheel similar to the Vest Pocket Kodak Model B. The apertures, according to a contemporary Kodak Ltd. publication, equate to f 11-f 32. The camera folds in a similar manner to the Kodak Junior Six-20, has a tripod bush in the front panel and a pivoting brilliant viewfinder. It would seem this model was produced for export only. A very similar camera would appear to have been finished in Europe (probably France) by virtue of the focussing Anastigmat Kodak Rapide lens set in an AGC shutter with a continuously variable aperture, see the picture below. This variant has no model detail other than the name Brownie on the shutter housing. The film recommendation decal inside both cameras is the same, in English, printed in the USA, though the film-wind key does vary slightly. Name Brownie Pliant Six-20 Shutter Kodo No.0 Film type 620 Picture size 6 x 9 cm Categories folding, brownie, 620

Kodak s Six-16 Brownie Junior is a camera for 616 film. It has similar appearance to the Kodak Six-20 Brownie Junior. It was sold from 1934 to 1942, was made in the US, and the original price was 2.75, which adjusted for inflation is 48.64 in 2015 money (per CPI Inflation Calculator). 616 film was discontinued in 1984, though there are modern solutions for those who wish to use 616 cameras in the modern day (see page on film, it has links describing these methods). Introduced Feb 1934 Discontinued Oct 1942 Film size 616 Picture size 2 1 2 X 4 1 4 Manufactured US Lens Meniscus Shutter Rotary

The Ludaz is a folding camera taking 6 x 9 cm images on 620 film. It was made in France by Lumiere from 1951 - 1960. The lens is a Spector 105mm f 4.5 or Fidor 105mm f 6.3. The shutter release is on the body and the finder is optical. Certain models have a retarder. The front face is white or black. It is easy to identify since its name appears on the leatherette or around the lens.

Tiranty was a French camera manufacturer based in Paris. After WWII, Tiranty made a number of cameras licensed from the British Firm Coronet. It manufactured a variety of cheak box and folding cameras until 1967. Several Coronet camera models were made in France, some with Boyer Lenses, and some with instruction imprints in French. The earlier Tiranty box camera models are the continuation of pre-WWII British made Coronet models. All of the Tiranty Box (coronet) box camera models are in medium format 6 x 9 cm frame with roll 120 film. They have a simple one speed spring Rotary shutter and these boxes are offered with various meniscus type lenses. Dual Format 6 x 9 cm and 4.5 x 6 cm Lens Boyer Foyer 104 mm 1 14 Similar to bobox There are many cosmetic variants

Gevabox is a pseudo-viewfinder camera which is in fact a box camer with an optical viewfinder on the top. Box cameras are usually fitted with two brilliant finders which help to frame the picture both horizontally and vertically. Gevabox was made in West Germany in 1955-1959. Reportedly camera was manufactured by Bilora not Gevaert, but it was sold under its brand. Camera takes 6x9 exposures on 120 roll-film. It s fully made out of heavy metal alloy, except large plastic viewfinder. It has an accessory shoe, most likely for the flash lamp, which can synch with the socket on the lens. The lens is a fixed focus 105mm f 11. There are two aperture stops f 11, f 16 three speeds 1 100, 1 50, B (Bulb). For the box cameras manufactured at that time this is uncommon to have that many options.

Elmo is a Japanese electronics and optics company that produces CCTV equipments including cameras, projectors, and other presentation devices. The company was founded in 1921 as Sakaki Shokai by Hidenobu Sakaki and released its first ever projector, the 16mm model A in 1927.

The Olympus Stylus 725 SW digital camera is an update to the existing Stylus 720 SW model, which was announced at the Spring 2006 Photo Marketing Association tradeshow. As with the rest of the Stylus line (known as Mju in Europe), the Olympus 720 and 725 designs are based around a weatherproof body that ensures wherever you go - in rain, sleet or snow - your camera will go right along with you. The SW in the name of both models hints at two more unusual features though - these cameras are rather impressively both shock- and water-proofed. It is in this area that the one significant difference between the Olympus 725 SW and the original 720 SW model can be found. Where the 720 was waterproof to a depth of three meters, the Olympus 725 is waterproof to an even greater depth of five meters. As with the original camera, the Olympus 725SW is also shockproof to the MIL-STD-810F standard as well - meaning that the camera can withstand drops of up to 5 feet from any angle without harm. Despite its array of waterproof seals and shock absorption technology, the 725 SW remains pocket-friendly and relatively lightweight. Other features look to be unchanged from the original model. The 725 includes an Olympus-branded 3x optical zoom with a 38 - 114mm equivalent focal length range and F3.5 - 5.0 maximum aperture, folded by a prism to allow the lens to be mounted at right angles to the front of the camera. This allowed the camera s designers to protect the delicate lens components, as well as to completely seal the camera body with no need for a lens to extend out of the camera body when powered on. The lens is coupled with a 7.1 megapixel imager and 2.5 LCD display that has 115,000 pixels. As is common on many digicams these days, this LCD is the sole method of framing images, as the Stylus 725 SW forgoes any form of optical viewfinder. Autofocus is via contrast detection, and ISO sensitivity ranges from 64 to 1600 equivalent and can be controlled automatically or manually. The Olympus Stylus 725 SW also offers what the company calls Digital Image Stabilization mode - which should not be mistaken for true hardware image stabilization, where either lens elements or the image sensor are moved based on sensors that detect camera shake. The 725 SW is simply boosting ISO sensitivity to gain a faster shutter speed and using software deblurring, both of which will reduce blur at the expense of noise and or image detail. By default, exposures are determined with Olympus Digital ESP multi-pattern metering, with spot metering also available. Users can also tweak the exposure with + -2.0EV of exposure compensation, in 1 3EV steps. Shutter speeds range from 1 1000 to 4 seconds, and the Olympus 725 offers automatic or preset white balance control courtesy of six presets, but no custom white balance mode. The 725 SW also includes a four mode internal flash, and offers beginner-friendly control over images courtesy of a rather generous 24 scene modes. As well as still images, the camera can also capture movies at VGA or lower resolution, at a rate of 15 frames per second with clip length limited only by available storage space and battery life. The 725 SW also has a twelve second self-timer to let you get into your own pictures. The camera stores images on xD-Picture cards, or 19MB of built-in memory. It also offers video and USB computer connectivity. Power comes from a proprietary Lithium Ion battery, of either Li-40B or Li-42B type.

The Sixtomat, manufactured by the Gossen in Erlangen Germany is an exposure meter to be used for photographic and cine camera purposes. The meter only measures reflected light. The sensor can be shut off for light by a metal rolling blind. This roller blind protects the sensitive parts of the meter like the sensor and the glass of the reading scale. The blind is made of special v2a rustles steel.

The speed graphic is produced by Graflex in Rochester, New York and is commonly called the most famous press camera. Although, the first speed graphic cameras were produced in 1912, production of the later versions continued until 1973. It was a standard equipment for many American press photographers until the mid 1960s. Despite the common appellation of Speed Graphic, various Graphic models were produced between 1912 and 1973. The authentic Speed Graphic has a focal plane shutter that the Crown Graphic and Century Graphic models lack. The eponymous name "speed" came from the maximum speed of 1/1000 sec. that could be achieved with the focal plane shutter. The Speed Graphic was available in 2¼ x 3¼ inch, 3¼ x 4¼ inch, 5 x 7 inch and the most common format 4 x 5 inch. Because of the focal plane shutter, the Speed Graphic can also use lenses that do not have shutters (known as barrel lenses). The Speed Graphic was a slow camera. Setting the focal plane shutter speed required selecting both a slit width and a spring tension. Each exposure required the photographer to change the film holder, open the lens shutter, cock the focal plane shutter, remove the dark slide from the inserted film holder, focus the camera, [a] and release the focal plane shutter. Conversely, if the lens shutter were used, the focal plane shutter (on the Speed Graphic and Pacemaker Graphic models with both shutters) had to be opened prior to cocking using the "T" or TIME setting, and then releasing the shutter in the lens. If indoors, the photographer also had to change the flashbulb. Each film holder contained one or two pieces of sheet film which had to be loaded into the film holder in complete darkness. Faster shooting could be achieved with the Grafmatic film holder, which is a six sheet film "changer" that holds each sheet in a septum. Even faster exposures could be taken if the photographer was shooting film packs of 12 exposures, or later 16 exposures (discontinued in the late 1970s). With film packs one could shoot as fast as one could pull the tab and cock the shutter, and film packs could be loaded in daylight. A roll film adapter that used 120 or 220 film was available for 2.25 x 3.25, 3.25 x 4.25 and 4 x 5 inch cameras that permitted 8 to 20 exposures per roll, depending on the model of the adapter. Photographers had to be conservative and anticipate when the action was about to take place to take the right picture. The cry, "Just one more!" if a shot was missed was common. President Harry Truman introduced the White House photographers as the "Just One More Club."

Ansco was an American manufacturer of camera equipment in Binghamton, New York. In the 19th century its predecessor E. H.T. Anthony Co. was the largest distributor of photography supply in the U.S.A.. It started in 1841 or 1842 as daguerreotype gallery Edward Anthony in New York and expanded its activity becoming photography supplier in 1847. In 1852 Edward Anthony s brother Henry T. joined. In 1870 the company started making cameras. The company was the first to patent a roll-film holder that could be loaded in light. In 1902 it was merged with Scovill Adams into Anthony Scovill, this name being abbreviated to Ansco. Ansco took over film maker Goodwin, photo paper maker Columbia and the American Photo Products Co.. Then it was merged with Agfa in 1928, to be called Agfa-Ansco. Additionally to its own products Ansco began to sell rebadged or licensed cameras of some other makers, especially of Agfa, and it built a new film factory. In 1939 Ansco was renamed to General Aniline Film (GAF). During WWII the company became state-owned because of its relations to Germany, and was forced to produce sextants and military optical rangefinders, and then it was sold as enemy-asset . After the war the company was again Ansco and reached its peak as camera maker with a production of 2 million cameras per year. Since the 1950s it sold again rebadged cameras, made by Agfa, Chinon, Ricoh and even Minolta. The company became GAF (General Aniline Film) in 1967 and made some film and cameras branded GAF, and in 1978, Haking of Hong Kong acquired the rights to the Ansco trademark. Ansco cameras continued to be made until the 1990s by Haking, while GAF became Anitec. In 1992 Anitec celebrated the company s 150th anniversary. It became part of a group which was taken over by Kodak. The factory in Binghamton was closed in 1998 and demolished in 2000.

During WWII Hubert Nerwin of Zeiss Ikon began planning for a new 35mm folder. His concepts were developed after the war to become Zeiss s first completely new postwar product. This series soon carried the name Contina. The first model introduced in 1948 had the Zeiss designation Ikonta 522 24. As Zeiss was unable to produce sufficient Tessar lenses (due to war damage to their production facilities), this is one of the few Zeiss models ever to feature a non-Zeiss (Schneider Xenar) lens. The model was continued in 1953 as Contina, as one of the first cameras of the new Contina series of 35mm viewfinder cameras (one was a rangefinder). After the initial series of folders, later models were rigid-bodied. Some had linked shutter aperture rings, using the Light-value system. The folding models had knob wind, frame counter and rewind fitted to the bottom the later ones had top-mounted 180° lever wind, knob rewind and frame counter around the shutter release.

The Yashica Zoomate 80 is a compact and lightweight point shoot for 35mm film was introduced in 1999 (after Yashica had rebranded itself as Kyocera). As one of their Zoomate models, it offers a 6-element lens zoomable between 38 and 80mm in focal length. Another name variation was called Yashica Elite 80 Zoom.