Item is a point and shoot camera for photographs on 110 film. Includes mount for flip-flash and Kodak Ektron II Electronic Flash., 2 built in lenses 22 mm normal and 44 mm telephoto lens.

Item is an automatic point and shoot camera for photographs on 110 film. Includes built in lenses, "normal" and "telephoto". Camera has no identifiable manufacturer marking.

Item consists of a Yashica Atoron, a subminiature camera with a smooth finish. It uses 8 x 11 mm on 9.5 mm film (Minox cassettes). This camera has a Yashinon f2.8/18mm fixed focus lens with an aperture scale from f2.8 to 16. The shutter has speeds of 45-250, B. There is also a Selenium meter and built-in UV filter. It is also known as the "Revue Mini-star."

Item consists of the 16mm miniature camera, the Minolta 16 QT. The camera has a silver top plate and black body. It has a Rokkor 23mm f3.5 lens; a two speed shutter of 1/30 and 1/250 seconds; bright-frame type viewfinder; IC viewfinder lamps for over- and under- exposure lamps; and automatic metering. This camera was the last made for Minolta's 16mm film cartridges and uses PX-825 battery alkaline batteries.

Item consists of a 16mm miniature camera, the Minolta 16 Model P. It has a Rokkor f3.5/25mm lens with an aperture scale from f3.5 to f16, a 1/100 second speed shutter, a tripod socket, and a flash terminal. There is also a flash unit and clamp to secure the flash on.

Item consists of a 16mm subminiature camera designed to resmble a cine camera. It has a f6.3 meniscus lens and guillotine shutter with a speed of 1/60 seconds. The camera has an aperture scale from f6.3 to 16, a manually reset frame-counter, and a two-piece sports finder. There is also a tripod socket that doubles as flash synch-contact.

Item consists of a 110 subminiature camera. The camera has an f4.0 wide-angle lens with three-position aperture settings. Fixed-focus. Includes a proprietary clip-on flash.

Item is an instamatic camera for use with 110 film. The Trimlite 48 has rangefinder-focusing, f/2.7, four-element lens.

Series contains cameras designed to fulfill specific, professional functions such as surveying, aerial photography, studio portraits and press work. These cameras are often the best items in the manufacturers line, offering more features and a sturdier construction than their amateur counterparts.

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Item is a typical handheld camera using 5.7 inch roll film. The transport is by a built-in clockwork (one shot at a time) to be wound by a large lever at the left of the body to generate a flat film plane. Some suction is generated during exposure. Shutter is made by Ilex (Rochester NY) 1/125, 1/250, 1/500 sec.The lens is also by Ilex Optical Co - Paragon Anasigmat f6.3. Accessories include 1 38mm Yellow Filter and 2 Metal Slides.

Item is a monorail view camera that was designed based on the Kodak Master View Camera, the rights of which were sold to the Calumet Manufacturing Company in 1955. Currently has a Linhof lens.

Series contains cameras that have with more than one lens, to create multiple images on the same light sensitive film or plate. These cameras were designed for several purposes, the most popular being the stereoscopic, or three-dimensional, image. Most stereo cameras work by taking two simultaneous images from slightly varying points of view that correspond to the distance between the human eyes. The images are then mounted side-by-side and viewed through a stereoscope (a system of two lenses that helps to converge the two photographs, to mimic the depth perception of binocular vision). Other three-dimensional cameras used four or more lenses to create images for lenticular prints.
Some multi-lens cameras were intended to create multiple copies of the same scene at one time, such as the gem tintype camera and passport camera, while others had shutters that took sequential shots to create images which show the passage of time on one frame.

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Item is a small, plastic novelty camera that shoots four consecutive photos on one frame of 35 mm film. The rotating shutter exposes them in sequence, at intervals of about 0.22 sec.The result is four images on a single negative that show the movement of a subject in phases. The process uses the same concepts as the stop-motion animation used by Eadweard Muybridge in his Animal Locomotion series of the late 1800's. The camera is a very simple design and has no focusing or aperture control and a simple sports style viewfinder. The shutters are fixed at 1/100 of a second.

Item is a specialty camera manufactured by CAMBO B.V at Kampen in the Netherlands. Designed specifically for passport photographs, the cameras took 4 instant images at once. The front plate holds four identical Cambonar lenses, all with apertures from f 8. to f 32, and a focal length of 125mm. The individual or (optionally )coupled shutters allow exposures from : B, 1/50, and 1/ 100 of a second. The back with a fine mat screen allows focusing by moving the lens board with all 4 lenses by a precise rack and pinion drive, which can be arrested by a separate screw. The mat screen can be lifted to allow inserting of a standard Polaroid film holder for 4x5 professional film. The photographer could expose all four lenses together or every one separately. The individual fields on the back measure each 55 x59 mm. A flash sync terminal and a socket for a cable release were included.

Item is a hand-made stereo camera created by attaching two instamatic cameras together (a Kodak X-15 and a Kodak X-15F).

Series contains single lens reflex, or simply reflex, cameras. This deign used a mirror at a 45 degree angle to allow the photographer to look through the lens when composing the photograph, therefore seeing exactly what will appear on the film. Brilliant and sports style viewfinders only alllowed an approximation of the image alignment.

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Item is a 35 mm. film camera designed by Karl Nüchterlein and produced by the Ihagee Kamerawerk company in Dresden, Germany. The Exakta has interchangeable lenses, 1/30 - 1/60 Horz. Shutter and an Accura Diamatic 1:2.8 28mm lens attached.

Item is an 35mm reflex camera with a waist-level viewfinder and a non auto-return mirror. Manufactured in Soviet controlled East Germany, the company and the Desden factory closed after reunification. The lens is a Meyer Gorlitz Domiplan 1:2.8/50mm.

Item is a professional medium format single lens reflex camera for 6 x 7 cm images on 120 or 220 roll film. This camera has a design similar to a 35mm camera with interchangeable Takumar lenses and range finders. It has a Penta Prism viewfinder, a wooden handle and a Takumar 6 x 7 1 :3.5 55 mm wide angle lens.

Item is a postwar model camera, made in occupied East Germany. is possibly a variant of the VX 500 , but not exactly like it. The prism can be removed, shutter speeds are B, Flash, 1/30 to 1/500 sec, double flash sync contact at left side, lens is West German Schneider Zreuznach Xenon 50mm f1.9.

Item consists of a single lens reflex Auto Graflex camera for 3.25 x 4.25" plates or film sheets. It has a disappearing Bausch & Lomb 166mm f/4.5 lens, a collapsible viewing hood and a cloth curtain New Simplified Focal Plane Shutter with speeds up to 1/1000 sec. It was made by the Folmer & Schwing Division of the Eastman Kodak Company, in Rochester, New York from 1907-1923. Two other models of the same camera were made and sold at the same time, one for 4x5" plates and one for 5x7" plates.

Series contains cameras designed with two identical lenses, mounted one above the other, for composition and the other for exposure. The twin-lens design allows the photographer a continuous view of the subject while photographing, as the 45 degree angled mirror is mounted to the viewing lens only and therefore does not have to list out of the way during exposure, as in single lens reflex designs. Most designs used a waist level viewfinder with a ground glass.

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Item is a medium format twin lens reflex camera for 6 x 6 cm exposures on 120 format roll film, produced by Zeiss Ikon. Model number 252/16 stamped underneath. Lens is a Triotar 75mm, f3.5 with a compur 1 to 1/300 shutter.

Item is a double format twin-lens-reflex camera capable of exposing 120 and 35mm film. Camera was outfitted with a mask, pressure plate and take up spool adapter for format changes. Lens is a Yashikor 80mm F3.5 with shutter speeds 1 - 1/500 and Bulb.

Item is a Ricohmatic 225 in case. It is a 6x6 twin lens reflex camera made in Japan by Ricoh from 1959 to 1962. It is a synthesis of all the best technologies of the time. Used no. 120 film, but an optional kit was available to allow for the use of 135 films. Features an uncoupled selenium light meter, EVS numbering system with two ranges, Ricoh Viewer f 3.2/80mm lens/viewer, Seikosha SLV shutter with speeds 1-1/500 sec + B, aperture of 1/3.5 to 1/22, manual focusing, and crank film advance.

Item consists of a grey Haco-44 twin-lens reflex camera and case for 4 x 4cm exposures on 127 film. Manufactured by Tougodo, a Japanese camera maker that was active from 1930 to the mid 1960s, this model was also sold under the name Toyoca-44, Kino-44, Laqon-44 and Tower-44. The Haco model has a gray leatherette covering, Hacor 1:3.5 f3.5 6cm lens and viewing lens with bayonet mount and semi-automatic film advance with exposure counter.

Item consists of a Sawyer's Mark IV 4x4 twin lens reflex camera. It has a Topcor 1:2.8, f=6cm lens, a Sawyer's Japan Ltd. Seikosha-MXL shutter, and a Toko 1:2.8 f=6cm viewing lens. The camera is the same as the Primo Jr, and was also made by To-kyo- Ko-gaku in Japan, but rebranded as Sawyer's Mark IV for the Sawyer's company in Portland Oregan. It was released one year after the Rolleiflex Baby Grey, and is an example of one of the first 4x4 TLR models made in Japan.

Item consists of an Argus Argoflex E twin-lens reflex camera made in the U.S.A. It was the first 620 film TLR camera produced by Argus. The camera features gear-coupled lenses allowing the user to focus using the viewfinder, an f4.5/75mm Argus Varex Anastigmat lens, and an Argus Varex Shutter with speeds T, B, 200, 100, 50, 25 and 10. Exposures are 6x6. The body is made of black Bakelite.

Item consists of a twin-lens reflex camera for use with 6x6cm roll film. The camera includes a 75mm f3.5 Carl Zeiss Planar lens, selenium light meter, and waist level viewfinder with removable hood. The exposure meter is located on the focusing knob, and is used by adjusting the f-stop and shutter speed until the two needles line up.

Item consists of a twin-lens reflex camera. The camera includes a 75mm f3.5 Xenar lens and a Compur-Rapid shutter. The object also uses knurled wheels for setting lens stops and shutter speeds and contains bayonet mounts on both the taking and viewing lenses.

Item consists of a twin-lens reflex camera for exposures using 4 x 4 cm TLR for 127 film. The camera includes a Topcor 1 : 2.8 =6cm lens and a Toko 1 : 2.8 f=6cm lens. Carl Zeiss Planar lens. Attached to the camera is a black Primo lens cap.

Item consists of a twin-lens reflex camera. The camera includes a f3.5/75 mm Carl Zeiss Jena Troitar lens and a Heidoscop Anastigmat lens. The shutter is a Frankes & Heidecke Compur shutter. Item comes with a black metal lens cap.

Series contains cameras designed for use with standard 35mm (135 format) film. This became the most popular film and camera format, both among professionals and amateurs. Sturdy and multi-functional, with interchangeable lenses, these cameras found their way into civil wars, riots, and natural disasters around the necks of daring photojournalists as well as in homes and on vacation with advanced amateurs and photo-enthusiasts. Once exposed, the film was wound conveniently back into light-tight metal canisters that would protect the film until it could be developed.

For 35mm cameras marketed specifically to amateur photographers, see items in the Point-and-Shoot series.

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Item is a 35mm camera with rapid-wind key on base. It has a coupled selenium light meter. Lens is a Baldanar F2.8 45mm with a Prontomat shutter. Automatic exposure is regulated with shutter speeds from 1/30th - 1/300th of a second.

Item is a 35 mm camera with a split image rangefinder and automatic exposure camera. A signal appears in the viewfinder if the film will be overexposed and the shutter cannot be released. Lens is a Yashinon - DX, f1.7, 45 mm.

Item is a 35 mm camera with a 4 second - 1/1000th of a second vertical shutter and interchangeable lenses with aperture priority auto-exposure. Attached lens is a 1:3.2 18mm accura/sigma.

Item is a 35 mm camera, similar in design to the Kodak Retinette model. Lens is a Baldanar 50 mm f3.5 with a Pronto shutter. The camera has an uncoupled rangefinder called Mess-Baldinette, with a coupled rangefinder called Super-Baldinette. It also has a built in self-timer.

Item is a 35mm single lens reflect film camera. The design of the camera includes TTL flash connection, cloth shutter and CdS match-needle light metering. Shutter speeds range from 1-1000th of a second and the lens is 50mm f1.8 Rollei Xenon lens. The camera body is black leatherette. This model was produced by Franke & Heidecke between 1970 and 1976. While early unites were made in Germany, this item was made in Singapore. Includes a leather Rollei camera case.

Item is a 35 mm single lens reflex camera with auto wind, and auto exposure. Includes an AF Nikkor 28-85 mm lens.

Item is a 35 mm single lens reflex camera. Features include automatic exposure using selenium light metering, with 3 sensors positioned around the lens, a Lanthar 2.8 50mm lens, and Prontor-Matic-Y shutter.

Item is a 35 mm rangefinder camera. Part of the Vito C series, this camera is a later model and includes a Color-Skopar 50mm f 2.8 lens and a Pronto-LK shutter with speeds of 1/15-1/500 (+ bulb setting). An external selenium cell exposure meter, which is set by adjusting the f-stop and shutter speed until two needles in a window on the top of the camera line up.

Item is a 35mm camera stamped "Made in Occupied Japan", which began a long history of Konica cameras made for export. The shutter was mounted on the top of a fixed tube.

Item is a 35 mm rangefinder camera. This is an automatic exposure camera with shutter priority and manual override. The camera has a Canon SE f2.5, 45mm lens with a Copal SV shutter, with speeds from 1/15 - 1/500th of a second.

Item is a single lens reflex (SLR) camera for use with 35mm roll film. Produced between 1959 and 1973, the popular Nikon F professional camera system allowed for the addition of a variety of lenses and accessories, such as viewfinders, flash attachments, exposure backs, and motor drives. This camera includes a Nikkor-S Auto 35mm f2.8 lens with lens hood, Photonic FTN viewfinder, and a removable flash hot shoe. The camera's serial number (7184006) indicates the camera was manufactured between 1970 and 1971.

Item is a single lens reflex (SLR) camera for use with 35mm roll film. Produced between 1959 and 1973, the popular Nikon F professional camera system allowed for the addition of a variety of lenses and accessories, such as viewfinders, flash attachments, exposure backs, and motor drives. This camera includes a Nikkor-S Auto 50mm f1.4 lens with lens cap and a Photonic FTN. This camera's serial number (6718490) indicates the camera was manufactured in 1965.

Item is a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by the Argus Camera Corporation. The C3 model was produced by the company from 1939 to 1966. The serial number on this camera, 1473750, indicated this one was manufactured in 1956. The camera has the same rectangular design shared by the other C models, often called "the brick", and is Bakelite and metal with an Argus Coated Cintar 50mm f3.5 lens. To focus the camera, the rangefinder wheel is adjusted until the images in the split screen rangefinder viewer line up.

Item is a small 35 mm camera with an ISCO colour Westanar lens 1:2.8, F45mm. It has a Prontor shutter coupled with light meter, a distance meter for manual focusing.

Item is a 35mm camera, the first with interchangeable bayonet-mount lenses. This one has a Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 2/58 lens (serial A# 5545070).

Item is the first Japanese 35mm single lens reflex with focal plane shutter to feature interchangeable bayonet-mount lenses with automatic exposure control. Has a Konica Hexanon AR 40mm F1.8 lens. Also has flash contacts .

Item is a 35mm camera. Very solid and durable design, similar to the box camera.

Item is a compact 35mm camera with coupled rangefinder and an Anastigmat F3.2/44 mm lens in a helical mount. It has a double exposure prevention mechanism.

Item is a 35 mm folding camera that has an accessory shoe attached. Comes with "color Skopar" F3.5/50 mm lens and a Prontor-S shutter.

Item is the rangefinder model of the Canonet 28. It has a CDS (cadmium sulphide) cell above the lens which is a Canon F2.8 40 mm. It has a Canonlite D flash attached to the hot shoe mount.

Item is a 35mm camera with a built in electric 3 frames per second motor winder powered by four AA batteries that also run the metering and shutter timing. The camera has modes for aperture priority and manual.

Item is a 35mm camera, similar to the Olympus OM-1 MD, but fully automatic aperture-priority metering. World's first camera with OTF (off-the-film) metering. Chrome. Item comes with 2 manuals.

Item is a folding 35mm rangefinder camera with built-in dual range and uncoupled exposure meter. Manufactured in the Zeiss Ikon AG factory in Stuttgart, Germany from 1953-1955, this model has a Synchro Compur lens. The model name, "Contessa" is inscribed in gold on the leather door covering, and round rangefinder window directly above lens. The camera has double exposure protection and the shutter will not fire unless camera has film and is advanced.

Item is a 35 mm camera with electronically controlled shutter. It comes with a 105mm f2.5 lens S#426848 and user manual.

Item is a 35 mm camera with Ezumar f3.5/50mm lens. Shutter 25-100 or 1-200. Has ASA sync post on front and accessory shoe on top.

Item is a manual, single-lens reflex 35mm camera that is an improved version of FX-3. Dedicated flash contact in hot shoe. Rubberized handgrip. All black body.

Item is a 35 mm single lens reflex autofocus camera with auto wind, and auto exposure.

Item is a 35mm camera with satin chrome finish on top and trim. Winding and speed setting on top right, shutter speeds to 1/1250, and rangefinder and viewfinder windows combined. Lens is a Sonnar 50mm, 1:2.

Item is a 35mm camera with satin chrome finish and chrome plated control surfaces. This model has polished aluminum edges, which were changed to black lacquer in later production. The camera has smaller exposure counter that is located closer to viewfinder housing than earlier models, with separate threaded cable release socket. Double exposure prevention mechanism present. Body serial number for this model always ends with a capital K. Lens is an Anastigmat Ektar f3.5/5 cm Compur Rapid.

Item is a 35mm Leica camera. This pre-war model, produced from 1925 to 1930 was the first commercially produced Leica and the first mass produced 35mm camera of high quality. The non-interchangeable Leitz Elmar lens is f. 3.5 50mm with a focal plan shutter. The Leica company (a combination of the last name Leitz and the word Camera), had an unexpected role in WWII Germany; Ernst Leitz II, director of the Leica company from 1920 to 1956, began hiring young Jewish workers in his Wetzlar lens factory shortly after Adolf Hitler took control of Germany. The interns, an estimated 50 overall, were trained and sent to work in the company's New York offices, saving them from the Nazi regime's Anti-Jewish Legislation.

Item is a brushed chrome and leather camera with hot shoe for use with 135 roll film. Compur-rapid Schneider-Kreuznach Reomar lens.

Item is a basic 35mm single-lens reflex camera with a platic body. Canon zoom lens FD 35-70 mm.

Item is a black plastic and metal point and shoot 35 mm camera with in-lens, solar powered selenium light meter. Camera has a Prontor-Compur synch connector and a hot shoe. For use with 25-400 asa film.

Item is a Pentax chrome and black 35mm single lens reflex camera with strap and Asahi SMC Pentax-M 1:1.7 50mm lens. An aperture priority automatic camera, with an electronic focal plane shutter from 8s to 1/1000, synchronized at 1/100. The ME has a vertically moving metal shutter with no shutter dial. The camera contains an exposure meter (TTL open aperture center weighted type) that is activated by a slight pressure on the release button. The 0.97× viewfinder, covers 92% of the field and the fixed finder screen has a split image and a microprism ring in the center. The shutter speed chosen by the camera was displayed in the finder, the aperture was not.

The ME has interchangeable lenses with a K mount. This camera was donated with 2 additional lenses, a SMC Pentax-M 1:3.5 28mm Asahi and a 75-205mm 1:3.8 Vivitar zoom lens.

The ME was replaced in 1979 by the Pentax ME Super and the Pentax MV.

Item is a 35 mm rangefinder camera manufactured in Munich, Germany. Exposure indicator in the viewfinder shows a green light for correct exposure and a red light for underexposed scenes.

Item is a Konica AutoReflex model, Sakura color. It was built from 1965 to 1967. The embossing on the silver 'SAKURA COLOR sticker inside the camera reads 7C, which indicates that this particular camera was likely built in February of 1967.
Item uses 35 mm film in safety cartridge and allows for picture size of 24 x 36 mm and 18 x 24 mm. Fully automatic aperture, manual aperture checker for depth of focus.
Item has standard lens, Konica Hexanon AR 52mm F1.8.
Wound by single lever action. Film wind changes shutter, Rewound by crank after rewind button is depressed.
Pantaprism eye-level viewfinder. Focusing is done with micro-dia-prism incentre of viewfinder. Half-full frame change marks and CdS meter visible in viewfinder.

Item is a Kyocera Samurai X3.0. It was manufactured by Kyocera from 1987 to 1989. It is considered to be one of the first bridge camera models, an autofocus single lens reflex camera including built-in non-interchangeable zoom of high specification. It has unusual styling, likely an attempt to avoid associations with conventional SLRs, considered by consumers to be too difficult and complex. Represented a bridge between point and shoot compact cameras and image quality of full SLR systems.
Item uses 35mm film. The lens is a Kyocera Zoom Lens f=25mm-75mm 1:3.5-4.3. Uses an electronic shutter with speeds 2 to 1/500 sec.
Item has an autofocus lock with half-press on shutter release, integral electronic flash that activates automatically, sequence-shooting and 10 sec. self-timer drive modes, optional date/time imprinting at bottom right of image, DX code sensing, ISO 50-3200, and uses a 6v lithium battery.

Item is an Olympus OM-2 N 35mm SLR camera. Chrome model. It is based on the OM-2 model, which is the automatic version of the OM-1.
Item has an Olympus OM-system Zuiko MC Auto-w 1:28 f=28mm lens. Lenses are interchangeable between all OM models.
Item features an electronic shutter, and offers automatic or manual exposure. Uses off-the-film metering and through-the-lens flash automation and was the first camera to have these features. Also has a direct contact inside for Recordata backs, an exposure compensation warning flag and full-frame averaging at all shutter speeds.

Item is a metal SLR camera has fixed prism with spot metering only. Although the body is in reasonable condition, the shutter is locked. Attached is a Bell & Howell 135mm 1:2.8 lens made in Japan.

Item consists of a Kodak Pony II camera. It uses 35mm film, has a single speed shutter, and features a Kodak Anastar Lens 44m f/3.9. Rather than traditional f/stops, the lens is marked with exposure values.

Item consists of a Kodak Signet 35 camera. It has a 45mm f/3.5 Kodak Ektar Lens with rear helicoid focus. The body is sturdy cast aluminum alloy, and it features an automatic film stop counter. It has a Kodak Synchro 300 shutter with 5 speeds and uses 35mm film. It was the first of the Kodak Signet camera line.

Item consists of a Kodak 35 camera. It was the first 35mm film Kodak still camera produced in the United States. It has a Kodak Flash Diomatic Shutter with four speeds (1/25 to 1/150 sec, plus B and T), and a Kodak Anastigmat f:4.5, 51mm lens. It has a black body with rounded sides, a lens/shutter unit with two film advance wheels and a collapsible optical viewfinder. It was crafted out of Bakelite with metallic panels and inserts. It failed to do well in the marketplace due to high prices and strong competition, particularly from the Argus C series. It originally sold for $40 USD, the equivalent of approximately $600 today.