Item is a Zeiss Ikon Deckrullo-Nettel folding/bellows plate camera. The Deckrullo-Nettel is an improved model of the Nettel. The strut mechanism is characteristic of Nettel, and gives variable bellows extension for focusing, with a focus knob on the left side. The end of one of the struts appears as the pointer on a focus scale, in a slot in the top of the body. The camera also has a wire frame finder.

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 consists of a box camera, for 5 x 7.5 cm exposures on 127 film. Model has two finder lenses placed horizontally across the top front side of the camera. The camera also has an extended hexagonal front plate around the lens with stops and closeup settings around it. There is a black enamel trim around the front end of the camera and a diamond shaped winding knob at the top right side.

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 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 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 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.

Cameras of this kind were used during the 18th and 19th century by artists and travelling tourists to sketch landscapes and buildings. A piece of transparent paper was placed on the matte screen. One could now trace the outlines of the subject as a guide for later elaborate sketching or painting. It was the predecessor of photographic cameras which, after 1839, could record the image by the reaction of chemical substances to light. Later the simple meniscus lenses were replaced by more corrected lens elements.

Item is a Weno Hawk-Eye No. 7 box camera by the Blair Camera Division of the Eastman Kodak Company. The wood box is covered with seal grain morocco leather with brass and nickel trimmings. It has a fixed focus achromatic meniscus lens with rotary shutter and set of three stops, two tripod sockets and brilliant finders. The camera uses No. 3A Folding Pocket Kodak film to take 3.25 x 5.50 inch exposures.

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 consists of a Voigtländer Vito BL 35mm viewfinder camera. It has a Voigtländer Color-Skopar 1:3.5/50mm lens and a Prontor-SVS leaf shutter. It is similar to the Vito B, but features a built-in exposure meter.

Item is a pocket 110 camera, in blue plastic presentation case with flash Voightlander Easy Light System V200) and wrist strap. Electronic shutter.

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 a folding camera, designed as an updated version of Bessa RF (1936), with housing for coupled rangefinder in chrome instead of black. Synchro-Compur 1/500 shutter. Heliar f3.5.105 lens. 6 x 9 cm prints on 120 roll film.

Series contains hand-held, shoulder-mounted, or structurally-attached cameras that use electronic components to record moving images and sound. Most items in this series are for home use. For cameras that record moving images using digital components, see the Digital and Pre-digital cameras series.

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Item consists of a sheet film wooden box camera with brown leather covering, for 4.5" x 3.5" exposures on sheet film. Manufacturer unknown. Includes 2 wooden film holders.

Item is a small, Bakelite camera with a frame viewfinder. This was a proprietary camera design, which used No.00, 6 exposure film only made by the Universal Camera Corporation. Norton Camera filed a patent lawsuit filed against the Universal company after the product was released. Norton had been in talks with Universal to produce the camera originally. Universal eventually won the case and purchased the Norton Camera company. The camera originally sold for 39 cents.

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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Series contains cameras designed for children or created and distributed as marketing materials for different corporations. These cameras became most popular after the advent of film cartridges, as this greatly simplified the handling and lowered the cost. These cameras are predominantly inexpensive and simply designed, without features that allow the photographer to change aperture or shutter speed.

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Item is a black leather-covered wooden folding 5" x 4", or quarter plate, camera. The camera has red leather, diagonal cornered bellows, Bausch and Lomb Automat shutter, and BECK 7" Convertible Double Aplanat lens. The ring-shaped clamp dates the model to 1907.

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 consists of Six-20 Brownie Junior box 620 roll film camera. This Brownie camera improves on the Kodak series manufacturing, with a metal body and an Art-Deco front face. It has a rotary shutter and a meniscus lens and two reflecting finders.

Item consists of a Six-16 Brownie Junior box camera that uses 616 film for 2.5 x 4.25 inch exposures. It has a meniscus lens, rotary shutter, and two brilliant viewfinders. It has a leatherette covering and an Art Deco design on the faceplate.

Item consists of a Six-16 Brownie box roll film camera that used size 616 film to make pictures sized 6.35 x 10.8 cm. It has a Diway lens with a close-up lens and a rotary shutter. The body is metal covered in leatherette, with a unique geometric art-deco front panel and two brilliant finders.

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 consists of a 5" x 7" dry plate view camera with Eastman Kodak Company Fixed Prime Lens with automatic shutter. The City View camera from the Seneca Camera was available in several sizes from 5"x7" to 17"x 0", and were originally sold in a set that included a base, plate holders, carrying case, and tripod.

Folding flash for use with instamatic cameras (specifically Minolta 16. Uses AG-1 bulbs

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 is a battery operated, automatic snapshot camera for photographs on 35 mm camera with Samsung F=3.5 lens.

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 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 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 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 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.

Item is a Rio 12C folding camera manufactured by Orionwerk Akt. Ges. Hannover. IBSOR DRP Meyer-Gorlitz Nr. 434172 Anastigmat Trioplan 1/6.3 F=10.5 cm lens. Company existed as Orionwerk from 1921 to 1933.

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 is an automatic, battery operated, 35mm camera with Rikenon 1:4, F35 lens and pop-up flash.

Item is a folding field camera for exposures on 8x10 plates, manufactured by the Rochester Optical and Camera Company. Wood camera with red bellows and brass hardware. Created for advanced amateur and professional photographers, the back was reversible to allow the photographer to photograph in both landscape and portrait orientations and had adjustable tilt to account for distortion. Includes a Ross f8-64 lens.

Item is a box-type camera for 4x5 inch plates in double plateholders. The wood boy is covered with genuine black leather. It has two viewfinders, a rotating diaphragm with three apertures, a single meniscus lens, and two tripod sockets.

Item is a metal box camera with red leather covering, for 2.25" x 3.25" exposures on roll film. This camera was manufactured by the Eastman Kodak Company in Toronto, Ontario and is No. 120 of the series.

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 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 Premo 4x5 inch plate camera with 1 plate holder within. This camera opens a the top for reloading. It has a [stiff] safety shutter, a two speed shutter, two viewfinders, an adjustable diaphragm, and two tripod sockets. The plate holder has the following writing on it "The Premo Camera Patent July 19, 1890 Other patents pending."

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 consists of a Kodak Pony 135 Camera, Model C. It has a Kodak Flash 300 Shutter 1/25-1/300, a 44mm f/3.5 Kodak Anaston Lens and uses 135 film format. It features a faster shutter and a shorter focal length to previous models. The body is made of brown Bakelite. Above the lens is an aperture scale for Kodachrome and Ektachrome films.

Item is a Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 104 outfit case. It is in a black hard leather case lined with red curduroy also containing the Polaroid flash model 268, 2 packs of Polaroid print mounts and 3 Polaroid envelopes for ordering prints, enlargements, and accessories. The camera is a folding bellows instand camera with automatic exposure that used 100-series Packfilm. It has a 2 element plastic lens and a non-folding zone focusing system. It retailed for $60 when it was first released.

Item is a variant of the Polaroid Land Camera model 95, and features a 3 element, 135mm f/11 lens, a 4 speed rotary-leaf shutter system with speeds 1/8 to 1/60 seconds. Used black & white 40 series 100 ISO instant roll film with a sepia tone.

Item is a Polaroid Land Camera Model 150 with hard leather case, Polaroid flash model 281, 3 developing vials, leather strap, manual, and 7 loose papers. It used 40 series Polaroid Picture Roll Land film.

Item is a Polaroid Highlander Land Camera, model 80A. It is a folding instant camera with a 100mm f8.8 3-element glass lens a 2-speed rotary leaf shutter design with speeds of 1/23s and 1/100s, a Polaroid hot shoe flash, rigid viewfinder, painted steel body, chrome plated trim, exposure set by Polaroid Light Value scale, and a rotating lens front-element for distance focus. It is in a leather case also containing the manual.

Item consists of a camera for use with the Polaroid 600 cartridge system diffusion transfer film, which had a faster ISO (600) rating than the earlier SX-70 film. The camera was released in 1982, and consists of a moulded black plastic body and features a sonar auto-focus system.

Series contains mainly inexpensive, fully automatic 35 mm cameras marketed strictly for amateur use. These cameras are the high tech descendants of the box camera and most models have no manual control over focus, aperture, shutter speed, film winding or metering. The viewfinder on point and shoot models is, like the box camera and unlike reflex style cameras, not integrated with the lens; there is no mirror directing the view from the lens to the eye of the photographer. Most of the point and shoot cameras require batteries for operation.

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Item is a Kodak Pleaser. It is an instant 'handle' camera with a 100mm f/12.8 lens, a shutter with speeds of 2-1/300s, and electronic exposure. It used film type HS144 for a picture size of 67 x 91mm. Picture ejection is by the crank on the right hand of the camera. The concept behind this unique-looking camera was to make instant photography as inexpensive and accessible as possible so that consumers might switch from Polaroid to Kodak. It is the second of the Pleaser models and has a two-tone brown plastic body.

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 Pentax Espio 140. This is a 35mm compact camera with autofocus and zoom lens. Has a SMC Pentax Zoom Lens 38mm-140mm. Self-timer, CR-123 battery, Multi AF autofucus. Integrated flash. Panoramic mode.

Item is a Pentax Espio 115M with remote control and operating manual. It is a 35mm compact zoom camera with autofocus. Grey in colour. Fully automatic lens-shutter with auto flash. Pentax electronic power zoom 35-115mm f/3.9-10.5 lens. Standard/panorama viewfinder, real image with lines for parallax correction, diopter adjustment. Focus lock and flash readiness indicators. Built-in flash with red-eye reduction. Self-timer. Auto-loading, winding and rewinding.

Item is a basic medium format camera for 6 x 6 cm (2.36" x 2.36") exposures on 120 film. Produced by Braun, this was an inexpensive Bakelite camera with a f7.7 75mm lens which allowed for focusing from 1 meter to infinity. The shutter allowed for 3 speeds (1/100, 1/30 and B). The basic design is similar to the box camera, with a more compact and rounded shape.

Series contains cameras designed to take wide-angle photographs (images that are least twice as wide as they are tall). Cameras of this nature began to be produced soon after photography was invented, as photographers have always wanted to capture large group portraits, landscape views and skylines. Panoramic photographs are achieved by stitching several exposures together to create one image or with purpose built cameras of several designed, including banquet (similar to standard cameras with wider aspect ratios, designed to take photographs of large groups indoors), short rotation (uses a curved film plane, swinging lens and split shutter that the lens rotates around), and full or long rotation (capable of producing 360 degree views by rotating the camera and film past the shutter).

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Item is a 35 mm, plastic point and shoot camera that takes wide panoramic style photographs on 35mm film. The exposures are masked off (cutting off the top and bottom of the 35mm frame) to produce panoramic images.

Item is a rollfilm panoramic cameras in which the lens pivots and projects the image to the curved focal plane. The camera uses No. 103 rollfilm to take 3.50 x 12 inch exposures. It has a rapid rectilinear lens and a 142 degree angle. This model is the original model for the Panoram Kodak series and has no door to cover the swinging lens.

Series contains cameras designed to be disposable. Usually simple, point and shoot cameras made of plastic cases with cardboard housings, these cameras were sold pre-loaded with film and returned to the photofinisher in tact for development. The plastic bodies were often returned to the manufacturer and re-used, with film and housing. Cameras such as this were marketed for travel, weddings, underwater or other situations where a more expensive camera may get damaged. They were available in different film speeds and some models included a flash.

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Item is a 35mm camera with fully automatic regulation of shutter and aperture. Fixed focus F3.5/28mm lens and compact size makes this a nice pocket camera. Has gray textured out body casing.

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 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 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 vertical style folding bed camera for 8.25 x 14 cm (3 1/4" x 5 1/2") exposures on 122 roll film. The shutter has Timer and Bulb settings and a Bausch & Lomb lens.

Item is a box camera for 3.25 x 5.50 inch exposures on 125 mm film. It has a meniscus achromatic lens, a rotary shutter with three stops, two tripod sockets, and two brilliant finders. There is a focus lever on the side of the camera to set proper focal distance. After the focus is set, there is a button to press and the camera will open to proper distance focused and ready.

Item is a folding camera with black leatherette case and leather bellows. Features a cord with metal push button shutter-release. Fitted with a Kodak Antistigmat lens f7.7 (170mm), No. 11592. Took Autographic film No. A-122. Serial no. 652261.

Item is a black leather-covered folding camera for 3 ¼" x 5 ½" exposures on 122 roll film. The camera has black cloth bellows and brilliant viewfinder. The original sale price of the camera was $50.50 USD.

Item is a leather covered wooden box camera from the days of the first "Brownie" cameras. It uses No. 2A Brownie or No. 2 1/2 Ensign spool film for 6.5x11cm exposures on rollfilm. The camera has a single achromtic lens with a time and instantaneous shutter, two diaphragms, and two ground glass viewfinders.

Item is a black leather covered folding camera for 3 ¼" x 4 ¼" exposures on 118 roll-film. The camera has maroon cloth bellows and brilliant viewfinder.

Item is a black imitation leather-covered wooden folding camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4" exposures, on No. 124 film. The camera has red cloth bellows and was originally priced at $9.00 USD.

Item consists of a horizontal folding camera with maroon bellows and a wooden lens board. It uses 124 film to make 3.25" x 4.25" exposures.

Item is a wooden box camera with leatherette covering for large 8.25 x 10.8 cm (3.25 x 4.25") exposures on 124 film. The design is simple, with a fixed focus and shutter speed. The roll film was advanced past the lens manually with a small crank. The original sales price was $4.00.

Item consists of a black box camera, for 3.25" x 4.25" exposures on 124 film.

Item consists of a Kodak No. 3 Autographic folding camera, model H. Camera has a brilliant viewfinder and black leather covering. It uses type A118 autographic film rolls to make 6 exposures of 3.125 x 4.25 in (8 x 10.5 cm). This camera has a Kodak Ball Bearing shutter and Kodak antistigmat f7.7, 130mm lens with an aperture scale from f7.7 to 45. The shutter has speeds of B, T, 1/25, 1/50 and 1/100 sec. The bellows are adjusted to focus and have a pointer on a 6 to 100 feet scale. The brilliant viewfinder folds out with the bellows and can be flipped between vertical and horizontal shots.

Item consists of a box camera that uses 130 film for 2 7/8 x 4 7/8 inch exposures. The camera has a meniscus achromatic lens and rotary shutter. The camera has a leatherette covering in a grained pattern, a metal film carrier, two reflecting viewfinders, one tripod socket, and a trigger guard.

Item is a folding autographic camera that allowed one to write on the negative using a metal stylus. Photos were taken on 120 roll film. In 1917 the ends were changed from a squared to rounded version, and the No. 2A was produced with the rounded ends until 1926.

Item is a box camera with a metal body and leatherette covering. It uses 116 film for 2.5 x 4.25 inch exposures. The camera has a meniscus lens, a single-speed rotary shutter, and two viewfinders.

Item consists of a No. 2A Brownie box roll film Model C camera. Manufactured by the Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd. between 1930 and 1936. Used No. 116 film. Picture size 2 1/2 x 4 1/4. Has a meniscus lens and rotary shutter. Case removed for loading by releasing two pivoted catches and pulling out winding key.

Item is a black bellows and leather covered folding camera, for 2¼×3¼ " exposures on No. 120 Autographic film. This later model has a shutter with speeds of B, T, 1/25 sec., 1/50 sec.