United States 1975 – Instant – SX-70 – Infrequent. If there is one device that marks the entry of Polaroid in everybody’s life, it is the SX-70. Launched in 1975 it was a revolution both inside Polaroid and for the entire photographic industry. Polaroid research … Read morePolaroid
SX 70 – 76/99
United States 1950 – Reflex TLR – 35 mm – Rare. The Model C, produced by Bolsey starting 1950, is one of the quirkiest and most eccentric cameras ever made. It’s a very compact, “Atomic Age” styled Twin Lens Reflex (TLR) camera was designed by Yakob … Read moreBolsey
Model C – 75/99
Germany 1934 – Folding – 35 mm – Rare. The Retina was manufactured starting 1934 by 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. It was Kodak’s first in … Read moreKodak
Retina 117 – 70/99
United States 1927 – Box Camera – 35 mm – Infrequent. The Ansco Memo is an unusual 35 mm half-frame box camera introduced in 1927 by Ansco. At first glance the Memo may look like nothing more than a simple box camera like so many … Read moreAnsco
Memo – 60/99
United States 1946 – Compact – 35 mm – Rare. Often called the “hunchback” for obvious reasons, the Mercury was first released in 1938 by the Universal Camera Group (also known as Univex). Univex then suspended their camera-making operations during World War II to manufacture … Read moreUnivex
Mercury II – 57/99
United States 1895 – Box Camera – Custom film – Rare. The Kombi camera was produced at the end of the 1800s by Alfred C. Kemper from Chicago. It was meant to be mass produced and an advertisement of the times mentions that more than … Read moreKemper
The Kombi – 49/99
United States 1938 – Compact – 35 mm – Rare. The Argus C might just be the most recognizable camera ever built. For obvious reasons, it is known as “the brick” and its most common version, the Argus C3, is one of the longest product … Read moreArgus
Argus C – 35/99
United States 1960 – Compact – 127 film – Common. The Brownie Starlet is a simple, plastic, fixed focus camera, mass produced by Kodak from 1957. It was one of the very successful “Star” series. The Starlet was a very common and low cost camera … Read moreKodak
Brownie Starlet – 24/99
United States 1939 – Compact – 35 mm – Rare. The Kodak 35 Kodex No.1 was introduced just before world war 2 as the first 35mm still camera of Kodak built in the USA. It was a simple enough camera and was efficiently designed to … Read moreKodak
35 Kodex No.1 – 13/99
United States 1982 – Instant – 600 film – Rare. Very few items are more emblematic of the 80s than the Polaroid 600. The Polaroid 600 is iconic both for its immediately recognisable design, visible in many of the now-classic movies of the times, and for the … Read morePolaroid
Autofocus 660 “Crystal” – Bonus 1