Bidspirit auction | A Collection of Vintage Photographic


A Collection of Vintage Photographic Equipment including Canon Canonet and Asahi Pentax Spotmatic Cameras - A collection of mid-20th-century photographic equipment and accessories. The lot includes a Canon Canonet 35mm rangefinder camera, first introduced in 1961, featuring a silver-tone metal and black leatherette body. It is equipped with a Canon 45mm f/1.9 lens and is accompanied by a black leather half-case with a brown strap and a push-on lens cap. Also present is an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic (SP) 35mm SLR camera body with an M42 screw mount, currently fitted with a large black-barrel telephoto lens. The collection further comprises a Shepherd DM-170 digital exposure meter featuring an LED display and manual calculator dial, complete with its original cardboard box. Lighting accessories include an Agfa Agfalux K folding bulb flash unit, housed in its original orange box with a matching brown leather case embossed with the Agfa diamond logo. Additionally, the lot contains a long-barrel telephoto lens, likely 400mm or 500mm, featuring a tripod mounting collar and distance scales in white and yellow, together with a tall, cylindrical black zippered leatherette lens case.