My latest find: a pristine copy of Yachica’s final, and perhaps most popular TLR: the Yashica Mat-124G medium format camera which shoots a 6×6 frame on 120 or 220 film. From what I gather it is pretty much the same as the Mat-124, except it has gold contacts, thus the “G”. Where? In the battery […]
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Konica Pearl I folding medium format 645 camera [1949]
This amazing little camera is a Konishiroku Pearl, better known as the Konika Pearl I. The company, which would later be known as Konica, came out with three more versions of the Pearl, adding some super useful feature such as a coupled rangefinder! This particular beauty came to me from a family member who bought […]
Mamiya 645AF medium format [1999]
This is one of my active cameras and takes absolutely gorgeous images. The effect it hard to describe, but its not something which even my Canon 5D III seems to be able to achieve. At one point I had a series of prime lenses for this, but found I really only used the 80/2.8 which […]