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This is a Kowa Kallo 140, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Kowa Optical Co., Ltd. in Japan starting in September 1959.

For most camera collectors, there is no better source for your GAS needs than eBay.

For Episode 114, we were really missing some of our overseas listeners so we decided to shift time zones and record at a more European friendly time zone…on a Saturday!

Finally, we’re back to our normal recording time and with an open invitation for people to join!

This is an Acmel Sequence 8, an eight lens sequence camera which makes eight individual photos using eight lenses and eight shutters on single sheets of Polaroid 100 Instant Pack Film.

In a recent episode of the Camerosity Podcast, we discussed buying cameras from Japanese auctions, specifically using proxies like Buyee or OneMap From Japan.

This is a Kodak Retina IIS – Type 024, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Kodak AG in Stuttgart, West Germany between the years 1959 and 1960.

This is an ANSCO Titan, a folding medium format camera made by ANSCO of Binghamton, New York starting in 1948.

This is a Merica flex Model 2, a twin lens reflex camera made by Merica Camera Works in Japan in the early 1950s, probably around 1953.

After a six week break, the Camerosity crew are back with another episode, but unlike most, we decided not to send out invites and instead just got everyone together and hit the record button.

This is a Wenk Wenka II, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Gebrüder Wenk in Nuremberg, West Germany between the years 1951 and 1952.

This is a Welta Belmira, a 35mm rangefinder camera produced by VEB Welta-Kamera-Werk between the years 1956 and 1961.

This is a Leica Model B, a 35mm camera made by Ernst Leitz GmbH of Wetzlar, Germany between the years 1926 and 1941.

This is a Hanimex 35 Micro Flash, a compact 35mm point and shoot camera released by Hanimex in multiple markets around the world.

Whenever you get a bunch of camera collectors together to talk about rangefinders and SLRs, the focus of the conversation almost always centers around those models with interchangeable lenses.

This is a Whittaker Micro 16, a sub-miniature camera made by the William R.

We’re back in time for both the 111th Episode and the belated 5th Anniversary of the Camerosity Podcast!

This is a Neubert Neuca, a 35mm rangefinder camera made by Feinmechanischen Werkstätten Franz Robert Neubert (Neubert for short) in 1946 in Jena, Germany, which was then known as the ‘Soviet Occupation Zone in Germany’.

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