The Praktiflex of 1938 was the first SLR to use a screw-mount lens (Pic: Danalor 01/Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0) In 1938, as war clouds started to gather in post-Depression Europe, designers at ...

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Now let’s talk about the camera itself. The Mir is a 35mm rangefinder camera manufactured between 1959 and 1961 by the KMZ plant (Krasnogorsk). This camera – with a name that can mean “world” as well ...