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cameras
Hasselblad 500C
from 1957
Medium format single-lens reflex with a leaf shutter in the lens and interchangeable film magazines.
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cameras
Kodak Brownie
from 1900
Inexpensive roll film box camera series that brought photography to a mass amateur market.
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cameras
Leica I
from 1925
Compact 35mm camera with a fixed lens and focal plane shutter, the model that established 35mm as a serious still format.
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fountain pens
Montblanc Meisterstueck 149
from 1952
Large piston-filling fountain pen with a two-tone nib, produced with many detail changes over its long run.
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cameras
Nikon F
from 1959
Modular 35mm single-lens reflex with interchangeable finders and screens, widely adopted by press photographers.
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fountain pens
Parker 51
from 1941
Hooded-nib fountain pen with a tubular section, produced in vacumatic and aerometric filling systems.
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cameras
Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex
from 1929
Medium format twin-lens reflex using 120 film, with a waist-level finder and a taking and viewing lens pair.
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fountain pens
Sheaffer Balance
from 1929
Streamlined celluloid fountain pen, an early example of the tapered profile that became standard.
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fountain pens
Waterman 52
1920s
Lever-filling hard rubber fountain pen, one of the most common of the classic Waterman models.
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cameras
Zeiss Ikon Contax rangefinder
from 1932
35mm rangefinder camera with a long-base rangefinder and a vertically travelling metal shutter.
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