Retro Film Camera

Ricoh Auto 35

1960: Ricoh bring the Space Age to camera design.

1974: Baby steps towards the digital age for film SLRs.

How this design principle has been used in camera design, with some examples

1969: World first cutting edge metering in a mediocre body.

1976: SLRs simply don’t get any smaller than this one.

1963: Kowa curiously put a technological first into a budget camera.

1956: This outrageously handsome Italian camera was as pioneering as it was cool.

1956: KW introduces the first fully automatic lens diaphragm action.

1961: Simplicity is beautiful with the mother of all point and shoot cameras.

1968: Yashica lights up the viewfinder and steps up shutter technology.

1965: Pentacon continues to innovate amidst the rise of the Japanese SLR.

1981: Pentax took an ME Super, added autofocus, and started a revolution.

1953: Kamera-Werkstätten’s great leap forward in SLR photography.

1966: Canon’s quick loading, mid sixties FL mount SLR was built to last.