Pentax introduced the MG in 1981, as the successor to the MV1 and in the line of simpler, automated, bodies going back through MV […]
Pentax Spotmatic SP
This was quite a find, body and lens serial numbers match to the original documentation from Pentax!
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Pentax K-1000
The camera that launched a million hobbies. If you studied photography in School from the mid ’70s onwards, you probably used a K1000.
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Pentax ME-F
One of the first integrated Auto Focus 35mm SLRs offered – possibly the first. There had been other attempts where the A/F system was […]
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Canonet QL19
The QL17, QL19 and QL25 are all essentially the same, differentiated only by their f/1.7, f/1.9 and f/2.5 45mm lenses. This was very much […]
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Canon AE-1
The AE-1 marked the introduction of micro-processor electronics to photography. For the first time microprocessors calculated exposure and timed the shutter, which in this […]
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Canon A-1
The Canon A-1 was the first camera to offer micro-processor controlled, programmed auto-exposure, where both aperture and shutter were determined by the camera.
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Canon T-90
A groundbreaking design departure for Canon, and one which established the pattern for almost every DSLR they sell today.
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Olympus Trip 35
A wonderfully simple and unsophisticated camera, we sold lots of Trips during the time I worked as a retail assistant in Dixons from 1981 […]
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Fujica ST605n
Quite a solid camera, arguably introduced just a little late. The K1000 preceded it by a year, and with it came bayonet mounts and […]
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