As a professional archivist, understanding the context and provenance of archival material is hugely important. When I look at my camera collecting, I have applied a…
Camera History
Always the Sun – In Admiration of the Selenium Cell Compact Camera – By Chris Pattison
August 17, 2020As I write this, a heavy shower has just passed and the sun is beaming down once again. Photons are showering the solar array on my…
Camera History
Zeiss Jena 5cm Sonnars – The Magic of the Prewar Uncoated Sonnar – By Brian Sweeney
April 29, 2020Interchangeable lens 35mm rangefinder cameras became popular almost 90 years ago when Leitz introduced the Leica II and Zeiss debuted the Contax I. Both companies brought…
On an undisclosed date in September, 1979, Cosina released the CT-1 to little fanfare. After all, it was hardly a game changer. The CT-1 is a…
5 frames with...• Camera History
5 Frames with a No.2 Kodak Hawkeye Folding Camera Model C – By Jochen Utecht
July 25, 2019Recently I stumbled across a very old brown leather bag on the flea market in the German School in Beijing. It turned out it housed an…
