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Pentax ES
By 1970, the m42 screw mount was starting to show its age, along with the Spotmatic. After a failed first attempt at a new electrically controlled Spotmatic, Asahi went back to the drawing board to release something special. This is the 1971 Pentax ES.
The Cameras of 2023 and Things To Come
In the spirit of last year’s collaboration article on Three Other Cameras of 2022, a look back at some of the more popular articles, other cameras I shot with, and what’s to come will now be an end of December tradition.
Acro Model R
Acro Scientific Products Company was a strange and short lived camera manufacturer, with a convoluted and somewhat obscured history. Out of nowhere, they created a camera that would challenge the completion head on, and fade into obscurity a few years later. This is the story of the 1940 Acro Model R.