Produced |
Model |
Innovative characteristic |
Lense |
Picture |
Jens Poul Andersen |
35 mm camera - 1905 |
This one of the four 35 mm cameras built in 1905 by Jens Poul Andersen in Nellerod, Denmark: The simple lens on the 1905 Andersen 35 mm camera consists of two plano-convex lens elements mounted in a brass barrel with provision for four fixed aperture settings of f/5, f/8, f/10 and f/15. The guillotine shutter provides a single shutter speed of 1/100 sec. The camera body is made of mahogany wood and has the shape of a flat box (somewhat like a brick) with the dimensions of 208 x 45 x 85 mm. The camera weighs 500 grams. It accepts a maximun of 20 m of perforated 35 mm film, enough for apprximately 300 exposures. The format is 24 x 60 mm. Courtesy for text and picture Mr. Rolf Fricke.
Made in Denmark |
simple lens |
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George P.Smith |
Smith - 1912 |
really rare US camera made in Missouri. First with 24x36 format.
Made in USA |
don't know |
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Herbert & Huesgen, New Ideas Mfg. Co. |
Tourist Multiple - 1913 |
Vertically styled body, leather covered, Tourist Multiple became the first commercially produced 35mm camera to be sold (although it had been on the market sometime toward the end of 1913), probably about 1000 cameras were ever made (McKeown, 1994). It contained a 50 foot magazine with enough film for 750 half frame exposures 18x24mm, shutter 40 - 200. There was also a multiple projector (film strip) available for $100.00.
Made in USA
| Zeiss Tessar Series Ic 1:3.5/50 or Goerz Hypar f3.5, or Steinheil Triplar f2.5. |
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Jules Richard |
Homeos - 1914 |
the first 35mm camera was the "Homeos" (1913) a year before Oskar Barnack's "UR" prototype. And it was 1925 before the first production Leica hit the market, fixed focus, diapphragm: f/4.5, f/6.3, f/8, f/10 e f/20
Made in France |
Krauss Tessar 1:4.5/28 |
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Multi-Speed-New York |
Simplex - 1914 |
multi-exposure, multi-speed shutter Compound 00, 1/300, 800 exposures 18x24. The rarest pre-Leica and the most valuable today is the Simplex Multi-Exposure 35mm camera.... Five, possibly six are known.
Made in USA |
Tessar 1:3.5/50 |
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Schoenander |
Schoenander - ? |
Special 35mm camera for 375 pictures 24x24mm on 9m special cassetes. A very interesting characteristic is its ringing bell sound at each picture taken.
Made in Sweden |
Leitz 1,5/5cm Xenon Lens |
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Ernst Leitz |
UR Leica - 1914 |
Oskar Barnack works on the design of a camera for 35 mm motion picture film. The result materializes early in 1914 with the legendary "Ur LEICA", vindicating the concept "small negative large pictures".
Made in Germany |
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Levy Roth |
Minnigraph - 1915 |
50 exposures 18x24 on 35mm film in special cassettes. The first 35 mm camera made in Europe.
Made in Austria |
Anastigmat 1:3.5/54 |
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Kodak |
00 Cartridge Premo - 1916 |
Six exposure roll film, 32x44 mm format box camera, the first in Kodak for little format.
Made in USA |
not know |
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FACT |
Autocinephot - 1918 |
Original camera planned from Tartara and named Autocinephot, equipped with a spring motor and can carry out seven various functions, camera, cinema camera, floodlight, magnifier etc. The shutter like a cross of Malta said about however the main employment like cinema camera rather than as camera very soon the licence comes yielded the French manufacturer André Debrie who producted it with the Sept name.
Made in Italy |
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Novaya Shkola |
Cyclocamera - 1920 |
Russian 35-mm Box-type Camera "Cyclocamera", c. 1920 Manufacturer "Novaya Shkola, Leningrad", 24 x 24 mm, leatherette-covered wooden body. Monocular lens 9/38 mm Fix Focus: Sector shutter 1/30 and B, reflex viewfinder. The 35-mm film could be loaded in dark-room only. This is the only one known worldwide.
Made in USSR |
9/38 mm Fix Focus |
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Hewit-Beaufort |
Hewit-Beaufort - 1921 |
On october 26, 1921, mr.Hewit and mr.Beaufort in London done a brevet (number 28.455) for a camera that used cine-film, with film advance and cocking shutter done to prevent double exposure (very similar to Tenax, adopted many years after by Zeiss), with the possibility to charge film in light by special cartridge. Format 23x31mm, central shutter from 1sec to 1/300, little reflex finder and after Albada-galileian, the project was abandoned after few years.
Made in England |
Cook f3.1/50 |
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Morsolin |
Argus - 1921 |
In the 1921 Francesco Morsolin introduces the Argus camera that employs 35mm perforated film and had an autonomy of about one hundred of format negatives 30x45mm. The camera comes constructed in a limited pieces number, perhaps only five hundred, but Paris camera maker Krauss produced e really similar camera: Eka !
Made in Italy |
Tessar 1:4.5/50, Koritska |
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Goerz |
Prototype |
Multiformat camera, it's possible to set camera to take 18x24 or 24x24 or 24x36 pictures.
Made in Germany |
Goertz |
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Victor Houssin |
Le Phototank - 1922 |
A strange project by french Henri Bayle, 50 exposure 18x24mm on 35mm.
Made in France |
Berthiot Stellor 1:3.5/50 |
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Dr. Rudolph |
Cosmos 35 - 1922 |
Dr. Rudolph's Spezial-Kamera Cosmos 35, c. 1922 Green leathered metal camera, dimensions without lens and fittings 65 x 105 x 38 mm. Exceptionally important in several respects: 1) An early "Plasmat 2/35", no. 251.373. The Plasmat was the "Kino-Plasmat" for 35 mm film, here in a testing camera for the whole 35 mm size. Slight corner vignetting visible. - 2) Dr. Rudolph as manufacturer. He left the Zeiss company already in 1920, not least because of differences of opinion about the Plasmat production. - 3) Very early German 35 mm camera. - 4) Very unusual shutter with 7 sec. delayed action! - 5) Fast lens. Lens speed of 1:2 was sensationally. - 6) Classic modern angular shaped camera design, with green leathering. - Worldwide the only known "Cosmos 35".
Made in Germany |
Plasmat 2/35 |
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Steinheil |
Test Camera - 1922 |
Test Camera Steinheil. c. 1922 Extremely early camera for 35 mm. Wooden body, leathered, top plates of aluminium, inner brass body. Extremely fast Steinheil "Cassar 2,5/7,5 cm", No. 288.433. No other Steinheil lens 2,5/7,5 cm is known! Ibsor shutter. With 2 optical viewfinders and screen focusing (without screen). One finder glass cracked. According to Dr. Loher a prototype. Top rarity! This is a competition product to "Minigraph". Courtesy of the Voncabbage collection
Made in Germany |
Cassar 2,5/7,5 |
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Prototype |
Kinar |
35mm view finder camera with Makro-Plasmat 2,7/5cm lens .
Made in Germany |
Makro-Plasmat 2,7/5cm |
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Mentor-Werke |
Kamera Rapid Night-Camera - 1922 |
Fantastic Early Night Camera »Kamera Rapid« (Prototype), from Dresden. Apparently this is a special design and development. With extraordinarily fast "Caleinar 1:1,5/6 cm" lens. Today only one piece known world-wide!".
Courtesy of the Voncabbage collection
Made in Germany |
Caleinar 1:1,5/6 cm |
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Ernemann |
Prototype |
No news about this camera, from lens it appears manufactured by Ernemann.
Courtesy of the Voncabbage collection
Made in Germany |
?? cm |
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Ernemann |
Prototype |
No news about this wonderful camera, from lens it appears manufactured by Ernemann.
Courtesy of the Voncabbage collection
Made in Germany |
?? cm |
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Seischab |
Esco - 1922 |
Another early half-frame. Speeds from 1 - to 1/300. 400 17x24 pictures. 2 versions, with dial-set compur or with ring-set, like Leica Compur.
Made in Germany |
Steinheil Anastigmat-Cassar 3,5/35 |
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Werke Simons & Co. |
Sico - 1923 |
Dark brown wooden body with brass trim. The Sico takes number 25 30x40mm exposures on unperforated 35mm paper-backed rollfilm. Iris diaphram to f22. Dial Compur shutter 1-300. An unusual variation has leather-covered body, slightly larger in size, and different controls.
Made in Switzerland |
Dagor f6.8 Double Anastigmat or Sico f3.5 Rüdersdorf Anastigmat |
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Werke Simons & Co. |
Sico 2 - 1923 |
Like the Sico but leather covered and with a little different design, Compur shutter 1-300.
Made in Switzerland |
Dagor f6.8 Double Anastigmat or Sico f3.5 Rüdersdorf Anastigmat |
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E. Guérin & Cie. |
Furet Camera ver.1 - 1923 |
Small, early 35mm camera for 25 exposures 24 x 36mm using special
cassettes. This is the smallest of the pre-Leica 0 35mm cameras.
Made in France |
Hermagis Anastigmat 1:4.5/40 |
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E. Guérin & Cie. |
Furet Camera ver. Compur - 1924 |
Compur shutter. matricule very low: 8
Made in France |
Berthiot Stellor Series 1 1:3.5/44 |
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E. Guérin & Cie. |
Furet Camera ver.2 - 1924 |
different advance film lever.
Made in France |
Hermagis Anastigmat 1:4.5/40 |
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Debrie |
Sept Camera - 1923 |
Spring driven motor camera for still pictures, sequential pictures or movies. When a circular lid was removed from the back, the camera could be placed in front of a light source and act as a movie projector. 18x24mm on 35mm in special 5m cartridges.
Made in France |
Roussel Stylor f3.5/50 |
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Ernst Leitz |
Leica 0 - 1923 |
Preproduction series of 31 cameras, Serial #100-130, hand-made in 1923 & 1924. Since the focal plane shutter was not self capping on the first seven examples, they required the use of a lens cap which was attached with a cord to a small bracket on the camera body. This feature was retained on the second batch even though they had a self-capping shutter. The viewfinder (either folding or telescoping type) is located directly above the lens.
Made in Germany |
Leitz Anastigmat f 3.5/50 |
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Mollier & Demaison |
prototipo Le Cent Vue mod.1 - 1912 |
Metal camera for 35mm film, advance film by a lever, 50 pictures size 23 x 26 mm.
Made in france |
Hermagis 4,5/50 mm |
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Mollier & Demaison |
Le Cent Vue mod.1 - 1924 |
VERY RARE 18x24mm CAMERA, FIRST VERTICALLY TYPE.
Camera was invented by Etienne Mollier in 1909/1910, but only a few copies have been made (and sold without sucess ...). He won the golden médal of the "Concours Lepine" the same year with this invention. I have this information from the memoir of Mollier, which has just been published under the title "Memoirs of a inventor "edition of the Harmattan.
Thanks for these infomations to
ERIC HURTADO
Made in France |
Zeiss TESSAR 3,5/4cm |
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Krauss |
Eka ver.1 - 1924 |
Dial set Compur- Serial shutter. Took 100 exposures on paper backed 35mm film. Helical focusing. The first version has frontal plate Chrome with "flame" on chrome. Different logo position on top, Lense different form second version.
Made in France |
Krauss Tessar 1:4.5/50 |
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Krauss |
Eka ver.1 - 1924 |
Dial set Compur- Serial shutter. Took 100 exposures on paper backed 35mm film. The first version has frontal plate Chrome with "flame" on chrome. probably adapted in factory for industrial use. the accessory is connected to focusing lense and allow to control on matt glass the correct focus.
Made in France |
Krauss Tessar 1:3.5/50 |
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Van Remorteel |
Photorette - 1924 |
Negative size 32x30mm on 35mm film. Simple shutter.
Courtesy for text and picture of Mr. Peter http://www.oldcameras.at
Made in Austria |
Laak POLYNAR 6,8/42mm, no diaphragm, |
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LA CINESCOPIE |
Photoscopic (vers.1) - 1924 |
Advance film by a lever like Amourette, Pronto shutter, frame Size: 24x24mm, 50 pictures, only 100 pieces made.
Made in Belgium |
O.I.P.Gand Labor 3.5/45 |
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Krauss |
Eka ver.2 - 1925 |
Dial set Compur- Serial shutter. Took 100 exposures on paper backed 35mm film. This version has frontal plate black without "flame".
Made in France |
Krauss Tessar 1:3.5/50 |
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