Glass Bodies a variant-level encyclopedia of vintage lenses and cameras by iwillpat

Bodies · Compact

Fixed-lens compacts and half-frame cameras, the ones bought for the lens that cannot be taken off. 50 families across 2 systems, in the order they appeared.

Point-and-shoot compacts

The 35mm point-and-shoot cameras people actually carried — a fixed lens, a meter, and as little to decide as the maker could manage. The best of them put optics from the professional lines into a pocket, which is why a Contax T2 now costs more than the SLR it was sold beside.

Rollei

  • Rollei 35 — Fixed lens · 1966 · 24×36 on 35mm · 19 variants

Olympus

  • Olympus Trip 35 — Fixed lens · 1967 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
  • Olympus XA — Fixed lens · 1979 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
  • Olympus XA2 — Fixed lens · 1980 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Olympus XA1 — Fixed lens · 1982 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
  • Olympus XA4 — Fixed lens · 1985 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
  • Olympus mju / Infinity Stylus (Olympus ∞ Stylus, Olympus Infinity Stylus, Olympus mju I) — Fixed lens · 1991 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
  • Olympus mju-II (Olympus Stylus Epic, Olympus ∞ Stylus Epic) — Fixed lens · 1997 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants

Minox

  • Minox 35 — Fixed lens · 1974 · 24×36 on 35mm · 20 variants

Agfa

Canon

  • Canon AF35M (Sure Shot, Autoboy) — Fixed lens · 1979 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
  • Canon AF35ML (Super Sure Shot, Autoboy Super) — Fixed lens · 1981 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants

Nikon

  • Nikon L35AF (Nikon Pikaichi, Nikon One Touch, Nikon L35AD) — Fixed lens · 1983 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
  • Nikon 35Ti — Fixed lens · 1993 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
  • Nikon 28Ti (Nikon 28Ti Quartz Date) — Fixed lens · 1994 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant

Kyocera

  • Contax T — Fixed lens · 1984 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Yashica T series (Kyocera T, Kyocera T Scope, Kyocera Slim T, Kyocera T Proof) — Fixed lens · 1985 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
  • Contax T2 — Fixed lens · 1990 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants
  • Contax TVS — Fixed lens · 1993 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Contax TVS III — Fixed lens · 1999 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
  • Contax T3 — Fixed lens · 2001 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants

Konica

  • Konica Hexar AF (Konica Hexar) — Fixed lens · 1992 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants

Pentax

Leica

Minolta

  • Minolta TC-1 — Fixed lens · 1996 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants

Ricoh

  • Ricoh GR1 — Fixed lens · 1996 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
  • Ricoh GR21 — Fixed lens · 2001 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant

Fujifilm

Half-frame cameras

Two frames of 18×24 mm in the space of one — 72 exposures from a roll of 36. Maitani’s 1959 Pen started it and Ricoh, Canon, Fuji, Konica, Minolta and Agfa followed within four years; Kyocera tried again in 1987 with a zoom SLR, and Pentax in 2024 with the first new film camera from a major maker in twenty years. The Pen F is the only one whose lens comes off.

Olympus

  • Olympus Pen (Pen S) — Fixed lens · 1959 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 2 variants
  • Olympus Pen EE (Pen EES, Pen EED, Pen EE-2, Pen EE-3, Pen EF) — Fixed lens · 1961 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 9 variants
  • Olympus Pen D — Fixed lens · 1962 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 3 variants
  • Olympus Pen F (Pen FT, Pen FV) — Pen F mount · 1963 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 3 variants
  • Olympus Pen W (Pen Wide) — Fixed lens · 1964 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 1 variant

Minolta

  • Minolta Repo (Repo-S) — Fixed lens · 1962 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 2 variants

Ricoh

  • Ricoh Auto Half — Fixed lens · 1962 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 6 variants

Agfa

  • Agfa Parat (Parat I, Paramat, Optima-Parat) — Fixed lens · 1963 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 3 variants

Canon

  • Canon Demi (Demi C, Demi EE28) — Fixed lens · 1963 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 4 variants
  • Canon Dial 35 (Bell & Howell Dial 35, Dial 35-2) — Fixed lens · 1963 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 4 variants
  • Canon Demi EE17 (Demi S, Demi Rapid) — Fixed lens · 1964 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 3 variants

Fuji

  • Fujica Half (Fujica Drive, Fujica Half 1.9) — Fixed lens · 1963 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 3 variants

Konica

  • Konica Eye (Eye 2, Eye 3, Wards Eye) — Fixed lens · 1964 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 3 variants
  • Konica Recorder (AA-35) — Fixed lens · 1984 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 2 variants

Yashica

  • Yashica Samurai (Kyocera Samurai) — Fixed lens · 1987 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 3 variants

Kodak

  • Kodak Ektar H35 (Ektar H35N) — Fixed lens · 2022 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 2 variants

Pentax

  • Pentax 17 — Fixed lens · 2024 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 1 variant