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The Perfex Special
A focal plane shutter proved to be too difficult to fabricate reliably at a lower cost, but the Candid Camera Corporation still wanted to produce a higher quality camera. What resulted was a unique line of cameras that existed in a somewhat gray area. Advertised as the ‘Perfex Special’, four distinct models were initially created using leaf shutters and lenses from cameras produced a decade prior.
Dead Hands Cameras
A new collaboration article and a list of five cameras that I quite like, to the point where you would need to pry them from my cold dead hands!
Pentax ES
By 1970, the m42 screw mount was starting to show its age, along with the Spotmatic. After a failed first attempt at a new electrically controlled Spotmatic, Asahi went back to the drawing board to release something special. This is the 1971 Pentax ES.