Produced in Communist East Germany by a company sometimes known as Practica, this is a clunky beast of a camera.
Pentacon Six TL
Tag Archives: 1980s
Pentax K-1000
The camera that launched a million hobbies. If you studied photography in School from the mid ’70s onwards, you probably used a K1000.
Pentax ME-F
One of the first integrated Auto Focus 35mm SLRs offered – possibly the first. There had been other attempts where the A/F system was fully enclosed within the lens, but in this heavily modified version of the ME-Super, electronics within the camera body used contrast detect sensors to determine correct focus.
Canon AE-1
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 case was still a fairly traditional horizontal cloth design.
Canon A-1
The Canon A-1 was the first camera to offer micro-processor controlled, programmed auto-exposure, where both aperture and shutter were determined by the camera.
Canon T-90
A groundbreaking design departure for Canon, and one which established the pattern for almost every DSLR they sell today.
Olympus Trip 35
A wonderfully simple and unsophisticated camera, we sold lots of Trips during the time I worked as a retail assistant in Dixons from 1981 to 1983. Despite having no battery, the trip manages to offer programmed automatic and aperture priority metering modes – made easier because it had to choose between only 1/40th or 1/200th shutter speeds!
Pentax LX
Arguably the very best camera Pentax ever made, and their only attempt at the professional 35mm market. This is a cracking camera in every way!
