My Pentacon Six project
This is the introductory post in a series of articles on my project to rebuild a Pentacon Six medium format camera.
1960 to 1969
Olympus Pen EE-2 half frame camera
A review of the fully automatic, half frame 35mm camera the Olympus EE-2
Kodak Instamatic 300 camera
The 300 model is slightly more sophisticated than most Instamatics because it had a light cell to measure the light level and used that information to drive the camera’s exposure system.
The rather flimsy Edixa-Mat Reflex B SLR camera
This is a review of the Edixa-Mat Reflex B, an early 35mm single lens reflex camera manufactured by the Wirgin company in Germany in about 1960.
Minolta Uniomat II rangefinder camera
The Minolta Uniomat II is a simple, light cell driven, match-needle exposure camera with a rangefinder focus system and flash synchronisation.
Rank Mamiya Auto Lux 35
The Rank Mamiya Autolux 34 is a fixed lens, SLR camera with a leaf shutter and a Mamiya Sekor 48mm F/2.8 lens which was made about 1963.
Miranda Automex III 35Â mm SLR camera
My look at the Miranda Automex III 35mm SLR from 1965 which featured Miranda’s novel lens mount system.
Voigtlander Vito Automatic 35Â mm camera
The Voigtlander Vito Automatic is a 1960’s viewfinder camera with a selenium cell which controls the camera’s aperture, making a fully automatic ‘point and shoot’ model.
Strip down and attempted repair of a copal-X shutter – part 1
My attempts to repair a Copal X shutter on a Mamiya Auto Lux 35 camera
The Pentax S1a 35Â mm SLR camera
A review of the Pentax S1a which was a cut down version of the Pentax S3 slr (or SV in the USA), made between about 1963 and 1967.
Miranda G 35Â mm SLR
A review of the Miranda G system camera. With mirror lockup, replaceable focusing screens and replaceable viewfinders this was a camera for the serious photographer in 1965.
Miranda D shutter repair – part 2
My battle with my Miranda D shutter continues so I get a bit more serious with the dismantling!