Glass Bodiesa variant-level encyclopedia of vintage lenses and cameras by iwillpat
Bodies
The cameras the lenses were made for. 260 families,
in the order they appeared — variants, serial ranges, how to tell them apart, and what the
sources disagree about.
Nikon rangefinder
The cameras that turned an optical supplier into a camera maker — from the Nikon I of 1948, built while Japan was still under occupation, to the SP that Nikon put up against the Leica M3.
Nippon Kogaku
Nikon I — Nikon S mount · 1948 · 24×32 on 35mm · 3 variants
Nikon M — Nikon S mount · 1949 · 24×34 on 35mm · 3 variants
Nikon S — Nikon S mount · 1951 · 24×34 on 35mm · 3 variants
Nikon S2 — Nikon S mount · 1954 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
Nikon SP — Nikon S mount · 1957 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants
Nikon S3 — Nikon S mount · 1958 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
Nikon S4 — Nikon S mount · 1959 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
Nikon S3M — Nikon S mount · 1960 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 2 variants
Cosina Voigtländer
Bessa R2S / R2C — Nikon S + Contax RF mount · 2002 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
Nikon F
Nikon’s single-lens reflexes, from the F of 1959 — the camera that took professional photography away from the rangefinder — to the F6 of 2004, the last professional film SLR anyone built.
F professional
Nikon F — Nikon F mount · 1959 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants
Nikon F2 — Nikon F mount · 1971 · 24×36 on 35mm · 9 variants
Nikon F3 — Nikon F mount · 1980 · 24×36 on 35mm · 7 variants
Nikon F4 — Nikon F mount · 1988 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
Nikon F5 — Nikon F mount · 1996 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Nikon F6 — Nikon F mount · 2004 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Nikkormat
Nikkormat FS (Nikomat FS) — Nikon F mount · 1965 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Nikkormat FT (Nikomat FT, Nikomat FS, Nikkormat FS) — Nikon F mount · 1965 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Nikkormat FTn (Nikomat FTn) — Nikon F mount · 1967 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Nikkormat EL (Nikomat EL) — Nikon F mount · 1972 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Nikkormat FT2 (Nikomat FT2) — Nikon F mount · 1975 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Nikkormat ELW (Nikomat ELW) — Nikon F mount · 1976 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Nikkormat FT3 (Nikomat FT3) — Nikon F mount · 1977 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Nikon EL2 — Nikon F mount · 1977 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
FM/FE compact
Nikon FM — Nikon F mount · 1977 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Nikon FE — Nikon F mount · 1978 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Nikon FM2 — Nikon F mount · 1982 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
Nikon FE2 — Nikon F mount · 1983 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Nikon FA — Nikon F mount · 1983 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Nikon FM2 Half Frame (FM2 1/2, Norwegian Police FM2, FM2N Half Frame) — Nikon F mount · 1983 · 18×24 (half-frame) on 35mm · 2 variants
Nikon FM3A — Nikon F mount · 2001 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
EM/FG compact
Nikon EM — Nikon F mount · 1979 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Nikon FG (Nikon FG-20) — Nikon F mount · 1982 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Nikon FG-20 — Nikon F mount · 1984 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Autofocus
Nikon F-301 (Nikon N2000) — Nikon F mount · 1985 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Nikon F-501 (Nikon N2020) — Nikon F mount · 1986 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Nikon F-401 (Nikon N4004, Nikon N4004s, Nikon N5005) — Nikon F mount · 1987 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
Nikon F-801 (Nikon N8008, Nikon N8008S) — Nikon F mount · 1988 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Nikon F-601 (Nikon N6006, Nikon N6000) — Nikon F mount · 1990 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Nikon F90 (Nikon N90, Nikon N90s, Nikon F90X) — Nikon F mount · 1992 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Nikon F50 (Nikon N50) — Nikon F mount · 1994 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Nikon F70 (Nikon N70) — Nikon F mount · 1994 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Nikon F100 — Nikon F mount · 1998 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Nikon F60 (Nikon N60, Nikon N60 QD) — Nikon F mount · 1998 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Nikon F65 (Nikon N65, Nikon U) — Nikon F mount · 2000 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
Nikon F80 (Nikon N80, Nikon N80 QD) — Nikon F mount · 2000 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
Nikon F55 (Nikon N55, Nikon Us) — Nikon F mount · 2002 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Nikon F75 (Nikon N75, Nikon U2) — Nikon F mount · 2003 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Olympus OM
Maitani’s answer to the size of the SLR: the M-1 of 1972, renamed OM-1 when Leitz objected, and the OM-2, OM-3 and OM-4 that followed it, the smallest full-frame system SLRs anyone made, with the shutter dial around the lens mount.
OM single-digit
Olympus OM-1 — Olympus OM mount · 1972 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
Olympus OM-2 — Olympus OM mount · 1975 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Olympus OM-3 — Olympus OM mount · 1983 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Olympus OM-4 — Olympus OM mount · 1983 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
Olympus OM-10 — Olympus OM mount · 1979 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
Olympus OM-2000 — Olympus OM mount · 1997 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Canon FD
From the F-1 of 1971, Canon’s first professional system camera, through the AE-1 that sold millions on a microprocessor and a television campaign, to the T90 of 1986, the last manual-focus Canon and the body that drew the shape of every EOS.
F-1 professional
Canon F-1 — Canon FD mount · 1971 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants
Canon New F-1 — Canon FD mount · 1981 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
FT amateur
Canon FTb — Canon FD mount · 1971 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
F series
Canon EF — Canon FD mount · 1973 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
A series
Canon AE-1 — Canon FD mount · 1976 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Canon AT-1 — Canon FD mount · 1976 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Canon A-1 — Canon FD mount · 1978 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Canon AL-1 (AL-1 Quick Focus, AL-1 QF) — Canon FD mount · 1982 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
T series
Canon T70 — Canon FD mount · 1984 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Canon T90 — Canon FD mount · 1986 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Mamiya
The studio and wedding cameras of Japan from 1970 to the end of film: the revolving-back RB67 and RZ67, the 645 that put medium format in a 35mm-sized body and the autofocus 645 AF that carried it into the digital-back years, the Press cameras, the interchangeable-lens C-series twin-lens reflexes, and the Mamiya 6 and 7, the rangefinders that made 6×6 and 6×7 hand-holdable.
C series
Mamiyaflex C / C2 — Mamiya TLR mount · 1956 · 6×6 on 120 · 2 variants
Mamiya C3 / C33 — Mamiya TLR mount · 1962 · 6×6 on 120 · 2 variants
Mamiya C22 — Mamiya TLR mount · 1966 · 6×6 on 120 · 1 variant
Mamiya C220 — Mamiya TLR mount · 1968 · 6×6 on 120 · 2 variants
Mamiya C330 — Mamiya TLR mount · 1969 · 6×6 on 120 · 3 variants
Mamiya 645E — Mamiya 645 mount · 2000 · 6×4.5 on 120 · 1 variant
645 autofocus
Mamiya 645 AF / AFD (Phase One 645 AF) — Mamiya 645 AF mount · 1999 · 6×4.5 on 120 · 4 variants
Pentax medium format
A 35mm SLR scaled up to 6×7: the Asahi Pentax 6×7 of 1969, the 67 and the 67II, and the 645 of 1984 that gave medium format a motor, a meter and a grip in one body.
Pentax 6×7 / 67 — Pentax 67 mount · 1969 · 6×7 on 120 · 3 variants
Pentax 645 — Pentax 645 mount · 1984 · 6×4.5 on 120 · 3 variants
Pentax 67II — Pentax 67 mount · 1998 · 6×7 on 120 · 1 variant
Fujica
Fuji’s SLRs: the ST701 of 1970 with the first silicon photocell meter in a 35mm camera, the ST801 with the first LED readout, the ST901 with the first digital shutter-speed display, and the AX and STX bayonet bodies of 1979 to 1985 that ended the line.
ST (M42)
Fujica ST701 — Fujica ST mount · 1970 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Fujica ST801 — Fujica ST mount · 1972 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Fujica ST901 — Fujica ST mount · 1974 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Fujica AZ-1 — Fujica ST mount · 1977 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
AX
Fujica AX-1 (Porst CR-3 Automatic) — Fujica X mount · 1979 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Fujica AX-5 (Porst CR-7) — Fujica X mount · 1979 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Fujica AX-3 (Porst CR-5, Fujinon MAX35X (medical version)) — Fujica X mount · 1979 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
STX
Fujica STX-1 / STX-1N (Fujica MPF105X (STX-1), Fujica MPF105XN (STX-1N), Porst CR-1) — Fujica X mount · 1979 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Fuji STX-2 (Fujica STX-2) — Fujica X mount · 1985 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Contax rangefinder
Zeiss Ikon’s answer to the Leica, and the camera the Soviet Union carried away in 1945: the Contax line and the Kievs that continued it for another forty years.
Contax (Zeiss Ikon)
Contax I — Contax RF mount · 1932 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Contax II — Contax RF mount · 1936 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Contax III — Contax RF mount · 1936 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Jena Contax — Contax RF mount · 1946 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Contax IIa — Contax RF mount · 1950 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Contax IIIa — Contax RF mount · 1951 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Kiev (Arsenal)
Kiev II — Contax RF mount · 1947 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
Kiev III — Contax RF mount · 1952 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Kiev 4 — Contax RF mount · 1958 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Kiev 5 — Contax RF mount · 1968 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Kiev 4M — Contax RF mount · 1976 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants
Contax G
The last new rangefinder system: two titanium bodies that focus their Zeiss lenses for you, made from 1994 until Kyocera left cameras in 2005.
Contax G1 — Contax G mount · 1994 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Contax G2 — Contax G mount · 1996 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Hasselblad
Everything Hasselblad built for 120 film: the 6×6 V system from the 1600F of 1948 onward with its Zeiss and Schneider glass, the Ross-built military cameras of 1940–45 where the company began, and the autofocus H system of 2002.
Hasselblad H1 — Hasselblad H mount · 2002 · 6×4.5 on 120 · 2 variants
Hasselblad H2 — Hasselblad H mount · 2005 · 6×4.5 on 120 · 1 variant
Hasselblad H2F — Hasselblad H mount · 2007 · 6×4.5 on 120 · 1 variant
Leica M
One window for focusing and framing, frames that change with the lens, and a bayonet: the M3 settled the shape of the rangefinder camera and Leitz has been refining the same object ever since.
M rangefinder
Leica M3 — Leica M mount · 1954 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
Leica M2 — Leica M mount · 1957 · 24×36 on 35mm · 9 variants
Leica M1 — Leica M mount · 1959 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
Leica MD — Leica M mount · 1964 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Leica MDa — Leica M mount · 1966 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants
Leica M4 — Leica M mount · 1967 · 24×36 on 35mm · 8 variants
Leica M5 — Leica M mount · 1971 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
Leica CL — Leica M mount · 1973 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
Leica M4-2 — Leica M mount · 1978 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
Leica MD-2 — Leica M mount · 1980 · 24×36 on 35mm · 1 variant
Leica M4-P — Leica M mount · 1981 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
Leica M6 — Leica M mount · 1984 · 24×36 on 35mm · 8 variants
Leica M6 TTL — Leica M mount · 1998 · 24×36 on 35mm · 5 variants
Leica M7 — Leica M mount · 2002 · 24×36 on 35mm · 6 variants
Minolta
Minolta CLE — Leica M mount · 1980 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Cosina Voigtländer
Bessa T (Bessa-T, Bessa T 101) — Leica M mount · 2001 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Bessa R2 — Leica M mount · 2002 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Bessa R2A / R3A — Leica M mount · 2004 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
Bessa R2M / R3M — Leica M mount · 2006 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
Bessa R4A / R4M — Leica M mount · 2007 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Leica screw mount
Thirty-five years of Barnack Leicas, from the fixed-lens camera that made 35mm film worth taking seriously to the IIIg that Leitz was still building after the M3 had made it obsolete — and the Canons of 1946 to 1968 that took the same thread, out-built them, and out-sold them.
Canon 7 — LTM + Canon 7 bayonet mount · 1961 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Canon 7s and 7sZ — LTM + Canon 7 bayonet mount · 1965 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Cosina Voigtländer
Bessa L — LTM mount · 1999 · 24×36 on 35mm · 4 variants
Bessa R — LTM mount · 2000 · 24×36 on 35mm · 3 variants
Canon rangefinder
Canon’s first cameras, built around lenses and rangefinders that Nippon Kogaku made for them.
Hansa Canon — Canon Hansa mount · 1936 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Hasselblad XPan
Hasselblad XPan (Fujifilm TX-1) — XPan mount · 1998 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
Hasselblad XPan II (Fujifilm TX-2) — XPan mount · 2003 · 24×36 on 35mm · 2 variants
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.
Hand-built in Ballaigues by a watch-parts maker, 1944 to 1990, some forty thousand in all: the first SLRs with a coupled rangefinder, a 45° prism nobody copied, and a TTL meter in the prism before Pentax. Every generation fits the same bayonet.
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.