ICA Dresden plate camera – 1910
Glass plate camera, made by ICA in Dresden around 1910, came to me in a rather poor condition: plate holder with some …
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Nikon FA – the multiverse of Nikon
This jewel produced by Nikon in 1985 is, without doubt, one of the most beautiful and complete cameras Nikon made over the (long) years since they started to develop and …
Belomo Agat 18K – a russian half frame
Not much to say really about this little Russian camera. Had it since the high school days, I bought it in the mid-80s. I just run a Svema FN64 through …
Azopan Microfilm with Minox
Found the time (finally) to cut some more 9.2mm film out of the Azopan Dokku (micro) film negative, and loaded a Minox LX with it. As I have said previously, …
Washi Z 400 NIF
Advertised by WASHI as a “near infrared film”, it has a sensitivity of 400/ISO27, and it is respooled by the “world’s smallest film company”, from stock pre-existent. Never had a …
One-off with 127 film and camera
This camera ended up with me, no idea when and how and where. Suffice to say that it lived in a box of old stuff, until I decided to have …
Agfa APX 100
This is probably the film I used most since the beginning of the 90’s. Of course it is not the same anymore, as the old APX 100 is long gone …
Kodak Portra 800 – 120MF
This film, Kodak Portra 800, in 120 format, expired in 2003/6. Was used in a Kodak 66 folding camera, pictures taken in 2009 or so. I only found it in …
ORWO NP22
This film was shot in a Canon AV-1, somewhere in 2009. At the time of the shots were taken, the film was already expired by some 20 yrs, kept at …
FED 5B – the Soviet brick with a lens
Bought this camera in 1982, while traveling in the USSR as a (very) young sportsman. The shop was near the Krasnaya Ploschatka (Red Square), in Moscow. I remember this because …