Graflex Century 35

[Doug T.]

I just received my latest 99 cent find! It's a Graflex Century 35 rangefinder made by Kowa.
It's all good, everything works fine.



This feels like a very nice, quality camera that needs nothing more than some surface cleaning.Shipping was $7.00.
It has a Prominar F.C. f3.5 / 45mm lens, and doesn't have any fungus on the lens, or oil on the aperture blades.
I'm very pleased

The next one coming is an Olympus 77 af that I bought for a dollar.
I hope the battery holder is in good shape, they're supposedly prone to breakage and hard to find.

Doug

[Stephen]

That is the better model Kowa made Graflex, based on the Kowa Kallo, and has a better lens than the plain Century 35A, which was without rangefinder, but had the larger reflector viewfinder. The Kallo 35 I have, has excellent lens performance.

Stephen.

[Stephen]

Kowa Kallo 35 version of the same basic camera as the Graflex branded version.

Stephen.

[Stephen]

Just noticed the Graflex Century 35 has the F3.5 Prominar, the Kowa Kallo version has the F2.8 lens. The Century 35A, without rangefinder, has the F3.5, and gives just as good images as the F 2.8 Prominar anyway.

Stephen.