Welcome to Chris Sherlock's Kodak Retina and Retinette camera pages

The Kodak Retina family of fine 35mm cameras began life with the type 117 Retina camera, introduced in 1934 with Kodak's new daylight loading cassettes of 35mm film.

The Retina cameras were manufactured at Kodak A.G. in what had previously been the Dr. August Nagel Camerawerk factory in Stuttgart. The business had been purchased by Kodak in 1931.

A large number of Retina and Retinette cameras were manufactured until production finally ceased in 1969.

Welcome to
Ken Lyndrups
Collection of photo-curios.

I hope you will find something of interest in my classic camera collection. The collection comprises mainly of cameras of German manufacture but also includes several from other countries. The cameras are a mix of 35 mm and medium format types both rigid and folding, and date from pre 1920 until the 60's.

The Making of a Camera Collector

G'day, my name is Holger Schult. I am the founder and curator of Camerasdownunder.com. The passion for all things photographic runs the family. Both my sons have played with cameras from the early years of their lives and as the digital revolution arrived they become increasingly fond of the old mechanical nature of the cameras they grew up with. It has been a win-win situation of me over the years as my sons financial support for my collecting has allowed me to enjoy my hobby and allowed them to continue being ‘exposed’ to cameras from the pre digital era and in many cases to cameras older than all of us.

For me my life began for me in post-war Germany as a press photographer, capturing images of the British Queen, the Beatles and other famous visitors to my birthplace of Hamburg, Germany.

Photographers never die, they just lose their focus.

Welcome!

...to the Web site of an incurable photographica collector.  So what is photographica?  Simply, objects related to photography, photographic artifacts.  And that's what I collect.  The whole gamut from actual photographs to the equipment that's used to create them.

Welcome to the Graflex Camera Collection of Bruce Thomas, Australia.
No other make of camera defined American professional photography for as long as Folmer & Schwing/Graflex. From the turn of the 20th century, through both World Wars and into the 1970s the words Graflex, Speed Graphic and Crown Graphic conjure up images of the worlds most instantly recognised photographs, some of which are shown below. Tough, reliable and versatile they were, and indeed are still, a very special camera.

This site contains some of my favorite images of female photographers. Enjoy!

In 1957 I saved pocket money to buy a Bakelite VP Twin (16 on 127 roll film) from Woolworths. It cost 7/6 pre-decimalisation, which is 37.5p. The VP Twin was difficult to use successfully, especially by an inexperienced 11 year old. Its open frame viewfinder could lead to catastrophic framing errors and the shutter release was awkward, so that camera shake was commonplace. I still have prints supplied by Gratispool from a holiday in Blackpool in 1957 which amply demonstrate the framing and camera shake errors I suffered.

The main feature of this site (eventually) will be a virtual museum of Classic & Antique Cameras and related Photographic Ephemera.

The photographs on this initial page are just intended to give an overview of the type of antique and classic cameras that the site will eventually feature, concentrating on the period from the 1880s through to the 1930s (rollfilm and plate cameras).

RaúlM.Let me start this by making you a caution advice "My name is RaúlM. and I'm a cameraholic". Seriously, I'm collector/user of film cameras, Large format, Medium format, 35mm, 127, 126, 110... you can see the picture

Charlie Kamerman's Kodak Collection. 

I have been collecting items in original boxes since 1979. My collection contains a wonderful mix of photographic related items representing the evolution of equipment and marketing of the Eastman Kodak Company over 120 years. 
In the beginning I decided to buy items only if they were in their original boxes
to limit the number of items I could acquire.

I have been a camera collector for over 20 years.  In 1995, I founded the Internet Directory of Camera Collectors, "IDCC."   The IDCC grew to be, and still is, the world's largest on-line community of active camera collectors.  See herefor more information on the IDCC if you wish to join.

Club Rollei User is open to all Users, Collectors and Enthusiasts of Rollei photography. Although based in the UK, the club has membership from all over the world. In addition to the quarterly printed magazine there is one annual event for members to compare equipment, share anecdotes and submit photos to the annual competition. More recently, we have additionally arranged a spring photographic break. There is also a Rollei postal portfolio group.

The International Rolleiclub.com was created at the dawn of the internet – in 1999 – a Rollei enthusiast in Beverly Hills – California USA realised the power of the internet at an early stage.

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P H O T O G R A P H Y

Here I describe my cameras and discuss some brands and models in particular. These cameras are pieces of the history of photography, but I still use some of them frequently. Old cameras are fascinating objects that tell us interesting stories and exemplify the technical and technological development of photography.

Photographic Collector’s Club of Great Britain

n this website you can see videos of many rare and antique Kodak cameras from the mid 1880's up to the 1910's.

The collection includes examples of most types of camera from the Daguerreotype to the start of electronics but concentrates on the heyday of British camera making - the period of hand-made brass and mahogany cameras from the likes of Hare and Meagher and the small workshops of Adams, Newman & Guardia and others.

This page contains data of Rolleiflex models taken from Ian Parker's book "Rollei TLR User's Manual". It has links to other pages with information regarding these models with pictures taken from auctions on eBay. 

Welcome to my website celebrating the 120/620 twin-lens reflex camera and its history. I continue to add things, so "bookmark" and come back. The TLRs are in my collection, and I'm keen to hear from anyone who can tell me more (or has something new for the collection). If I have something wrong, let me know. There is a links page, but websites change frequently. If a link doesn't work, search in Google - if it's still around, you should find it. Either way, let me know. There's also a page of information sources used.