Calvert R-1
A quiet 35 mm rangefinder with a leaf shutter and a chrome top plate.
- Format35 mm
- Lens40 mm f/1.7
- Shutter1/2000 s
A 35 mm film SLR, made in small batches and finished by hand. Turn it, take it apart, and see the mechanism that has been quietly making pictures for fifty years.
Four frames from four of our customers, made on film and printed here in the studio. No pixels were harmed.
Every image in this gallery is drawn in code, like the cameras themselves.
Each camera is serviced, sealed and tested here before it is packed. Lenses come with our two-year mechanical guarantee.
A quiet 35 mm rangefinder with a leaf shutter and a chrome top plate.
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Seven elements, nine blades, and the softest wide-open falloff we make.
A compact telephoto with a built-in sliding hood and a long, smooth throw.
“Thirty-six frames. You slow down, you think, you wait — and then the shutter lets you have exactly one of them.”
Film asks something of you. A roll has a beginning, a middle and an end, and no screen to check in between. The result arrives days later, in an envelope, and you look at it properly, once, with someone beside you.
We build and restore cameras for people who like that trade. Nothing here is pretend: the brass is brass, the cloth shutter is cloth, and every dial clicks because a spring says so.