Posted in 3-February-2010 ¬ 19:55h.marc
The Leicaflex is my newest purchase. There are lots of pictures of it, along with the original brochure, an article from the April 1965 issue of Popular Photography, and even some photos I took with it.
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Posted in 6-January-2010 ¬ 23:47h.marc
Now that I’ve bought most of the cameras I want,
or that are available,
I’m willing to share my eBay secrets,
captured in four rules.
Here’s the article.
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Posted in 3-January-2010 ¬ 15:15h.marc
My newest acquisitions are Konica’s first 35mm camera (1948) and the Taron Marquis (1962),
the first camera with a built-in CdS meter.
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Posted in 2-January-2010 ¬ 20:39h.marc
Just re-did the first page of my Classic Cameras site. No new articles (other than yesterday’s), but now they’re featured
on the front page:
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Posted in 1-January-2010 ¬ 18:06h.marc
This you don’t want to miss:
My new
Concise History of the 35mm SLR
in 19 short pages, with what I hope is a fun-to-use interface.
(My day job is computer programming, in case you didn’t know that.)
Happy New Year!
2010 is nothing at all like 1959…
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Posted in 19-December-2009 ¬ 13:36h.marc
A review of the Kodak Instamatic Reflex,
a 3-page ad for it, and
a review of the Rollei 35.
And, I grabbed a Taron Marquis on eBay, as the only bidder,
and went ahead and made a page for it with a review.
The camera itself should be here after Christmas.
The Taron Marquis was the first camera with a built-in
CdS [...]
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Posted in 17-December-2009 ¬ 23:17h.marc
Most of the initial autofocus patents were awarded to Honeywell, and most of those were for inventions of Normal Stauffer, who worked at Honeywell’s Denver office.
I’ve added lots of material about two autofocus cameras,
the Konica CD35AF, which was the first autofocus 35mm,
and the Minolta Maxxum 7000, which was the first 35mm SLR with in-body automatic [...]
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Posted in 14-December-2009 ¬ 19:45h.marc
Much of the material on my Classic Cameras site comes from old magazines, especially Popular Photography, which I read
over-and-over during the 1960s. My own magazines are long gone, but I’ve been acquiring replacements on eBay,
with great success.
My collection is about 50% complete for the late 1930s and 1940s,
nearly 100% for the 1950s,
and pretty good for [...]
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Posted in 13-December-2009 ¬ 12:03h.marc
Today’s updates on my Classic Cameras site.
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Posted in 13-December-2009 ¬ 11:06h.marc
Yes, I do sometimes point my camera at something other than another camera! Here are three shots from a recent vacation in and around Durango, Colorado. The one above was taken with my Nikon D70 converted to infrared, the ones below with my D700. There are a few more photos from that trip on my [...]
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