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Cosina CT1G Review

The Cosina CT series of manual focus K mount SLR. at first glance seem to be a minor footnote but cameras from this series would end up being some the last film SLR ever made and even were the basis of the last non Leica M mount rangefinders. But these models weren’t branded Cosina. This CT1G is one of the lesser known but still a reasonable K1000 alternative.

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It’s not a real Nikon but … – The Nikon FE10 Overview

Launched in 1996 few cameras get the goat of some ‘serious’ Nikon users as this and its sibling the FM10. The major sin is they aren’t made by Nikon.  Even wikipedia  describes both as “not a true member of the Nikon compact F-series SLRs,”.  But does that make them bad cameras ?

Of course things are not helped by that lens…

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Cosina CX-2 Review – The Grandfather of Lomo ?

Lomography’s Mythology¹ describes this quirky zone focus shooter as the progenitor of the camera that started Lomography, the LC-A. But how does this camera that the Russians so slavishly copied, stand up on its own ?

Cosina CX-2 film Camera
Cosina CX-2 35mm film Camera. The alleged inspiration for the LC-A

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