Mixed nuts by Dr Burton Rubin, New York Some collectable cameras are definitely entrees: Leicas, for example, or Contaxes, or Nikon SLRs. Some are exotic hothouse fruits: Nikon rangefinders, Alpa...
SYBIL: an eccentrically British camera by Harry Kitchen In 1980 I met a ‘one-armed very old gentleman’, (as he candidly described himself), who had a camera to sell. Over lunch he told me tha...
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An introduction to Angenieux lenses by Paul Gates, Ducey, France Many of the great French optical manufacturing houses such as Darlot, Hermagis, Boyer and Krauss had their roots in the nineteenth...