A col­lec­tion of things. Expect some art­icles in the com­ing months about the Yash­ica Min­is­ter 700, FED1f NKVD, Niko­mat FT2, and Polar­oid SX-70 in the same vein as the Olym­pus Chrome Six. The ham­mer, wrench, paper bag, and girls diary will not be get­ting art­icles however.

This is the first in what will — hope­fully — be many posts about the cam­eras that I have been col­lect­ing over the years. Present count today is some­where around 25 cam­eras, from the early 20th Cen­tury to only months old, both film and digital, SLR, TLR, Rangefind­ers, Folders and more.

The cam­era up today is the Olym­pus Chrome Six III B. It’s a Medium Format Fold­ing cam­era first intro­duced in 1948, the revi­sion III (below) was intro­duced in May 1952. The biggest dif­fer­ence between the earlier II model was the intro­duc­tion of a ‘film plane cor­rector’ to improve the pre­ci­sion of the film pos­i­tion. The ‘B’ denotes the fact that it has the faster 75mm ƒ2.8 lens, and not the ƒ3.5.

Con­tinue read­ing: Olym­pus Chrome Six III B