Rollei RPX 25 – First Contact

Maco has recently introduced the new film at 25 ISO that would complement, together with ISO 100 and 400 presented a couple of years ago, the RPX family, now more than ever similar in content to the historic  Agfa Pan APX line. The official announcement has been followed by the spread of the early film…

Kodak Retina 1b

HISTORY The Retina series represents a wide family of cameras among the most successful ones produced by Kodak, the first model of which is the camera with which the American company launched the new format 135 in disposable charger. Initially just called Retina, then Retina 1 from 1937, was a rather simple device conceived as…

Canon A1

HISTORY In the second half of the ’70s we saw expansion of the electronics integrated in the cameras, played with perhaps too early by some companies but not by Canon, which at the right time presents the new series camera “A” in which, in fact, the electronics, in the form of controls and exposure programs,…

Kodak Disc Format

Historical Background In the wake of the success of the simplified loading systems ( 126 Instamatic and 110 Pocket ), Kodak wanted to continue the development of simple systems and miniaturized proposing, in 1982 The new system Disc. This new system is proposed as a successor in particular to the 110 and tried to improve…

Miniature Photography – Part II

Following the first notes on miniature photography in which we had a look at the film formats, we shall now proceed to make a quick trip on the main cameras available on the market at the time; several of these, in particular the Minolta 16, are still readily available in second-hand equipment market and can…

Miniature Photography – Part I

Reducing the size of the picture frame and subsequentially of the camera  is a requirement that has accompanied the evolution of photography from its beginnings up to digital era: the splitting of original deguerreotype sheet sizes (up to sixteenths), the improvement of field cameras up introduction of roll films, all of these steps were completed,…