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Kilfitts Pan Tele Kilar
Is It The Acme Of German Engineering
Roger W. Hicks  |  Jul 01, 2003  |  0 comments

Mechanical precision has an almost sensual pleasure of its own. Think of the buttery wind-on of a 1950s Leica M3, or the way that the lens panel of an Alpa 12 glides into place, then fits solid as a rock. Recently...

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Nikonos II
Roger W. Hicks  |  May 01, 2003  |  0 comments

One of the joys of classic cameras, indeed, of classic anything--is the absence of "me-too" design; and the Nikonos II illustrated is about as far from "me too" as you can get.

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Voigtlander Bessa R2S R2C
Two New R2 Variations
Roger W. Hicks  |  Apr 01, 2003  |  0 comments

The Bessa-R2C and R2S are both variants on the superb R2. Instead of the Leica bayonet mount of the R2, however, the new cameras have the original 1932-1961 Contax mount (R2C) and the original 1948-1963...

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A Linhof Technika 70 Special
Roger W. Hicks  |  Nov 01, 2002  |  0 comments

Beware: heresy is about to be spoken. It is that you might care to take one of the most sublimely constructed and complex of all mechanical cameras, and butcher it.

The sacrificial victim is a Linhof Technika 70, which entered production (as far as I know) in the early 1960s: certainly...

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