Glass plates and room sized cameras In the early part of the 20th Century photographic chemistry was comparatively crude. Emulsions were not very light […]
I have to admit it was a particularly stubborn streak in me that lead to buying and using this meter. I’d been reading lots […]
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Produced in Communist East Germany by a company sometimes known as Practica, this is a clunky beast of a camera.
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These were churned out by the hundreds of thousands, especially the cheap and cheerful version I have here.
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This was quite a find, body and lens serial numbers match to the original documentation from Pentax!
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The camera that launched a million hobbies. If you studied photography in School from the mid ’70s onwards, you probably used a K1000.
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One of the first integrated Auto Focus 35mm SLRs offered – possibly the first. There had been other attempts where the A/F system was […]
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Growing up, every picture we have as a family was taken by one of these!
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The QL17, QL19 and QL25 are all essentially the same, differentiated only by their f/1.7, f/1.9 and f/2.5 45mm lenses. This was very much […]
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The AE-1 marked the introduction of micro-processor electronics to photography. For the first time microprocessors calculated exposure and timed the shutter, which in this […]
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