35x – Jonathan Gazeley

Halina 35x

Released 1959 I inherited this camera from my grandfather. It’s a fairly ordinary 35mm compact camera. Compared to a modern digital camera it isn’t much larger but it is unbelievably heavy, and feels great in your hands. At a glance Lens Fixed Halina Anastigmat 45mm f/3.5 Film 135 (35mm) Focus Guess Meter None

Inherited cameras

When my grandad died in 2008 I inherited his old cameras. Theoretically, at least, since nobody knew where they were. At the time, I knew he’d taken some wonderful pictures of post-war Korea in 1955 which I published – but we weren’t able to find the camera used to take them, nor did we knowContinue reading “Inherited cameras”