1980s

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Pentax MV1

Surprisingly, given it’s decidedly amateur auto-only positioning, this MV1 was “rode hard and put away wet”. It’s one of the […]

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Pentax MG

Pentax introduced the MG in 1981, as the successor to the MV1 and in the line of simpler, automated, bodies

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Pentacon Six TL

Produced in Communist East Germany by a company sometimes known as Practica, this is a clunky beast of a camera.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Pentax LX

Arguably the very best camera Pentax ever made, and their only attempt at the professional 35mm market. This is a

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