Vintage Cameras
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Anyone into collecting vintage cameras? I picked up a 1957 Agfa Ambi Silette for $10 at a consignment store. The firing mechanism works and nothing seems to be locked up.
- epigraph0
I'll give you 9 bucks for it
- Uhm, no. Ebay has one in worse condition for $150.********
- Uhm, no. Ebay has one in worse condition for $150.
- danthon0
I just got my hands on a mint polaroid SX-70-2.
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That's sweet danthon! Can you still get Polaroid film for it?
- polaroids for this camera are dead... this told me a photographermoamoa
- http://news.scotsman…moamoa
- http://www.sx70blend…bolus
- If you buy a filter for it, you can use standard 600 film.PPirate
- danthon0
lots on ebay. not cheap, but hey could be fun.
- kerus0
i used to be an old camera junky. not so much anymore
but still fun to look at
- doesnotexist0
sometimes you can find the old cameras police departments used, found a really nice yashica once.
- "If you could see the things I've seen..."
...They might say.thismanslife - by my troth.doesnotexist
- "If you could see the things I've seen..."
- Invalid0
A few years ago I was in Afghanistan and walked into a photography store. These are small photo booth / shops littered throughout Herat. The idea is you go in and get a photo taken, and they do a touch-up job or a simple passport photo which they also insist on touching up.
Getting back to the point...
In the store window of this particular one I walked into, they had a range of vintage cameras. From what I saw there were a few recognizable brands such as Pentax, Olympus and Nikon. The others I wasn't too familiar with. Having said that, I'm not exactly a camera historian.
I asked the boy in the shop if they were for sale and how much he'd like for them. He told me they didn't work and they were relics from long before the communist revolution. This meant they had to be approximately pre 1975. The cameras were in reasonably good condition. They belonged to his father who had died shortly after. I told him I didn’t mind if they didn’t work and would be willing to take them. He insisted that the cameras were useless and couldn’t comprehend why somebody would want to pay money for them.
No amount of haggling could persuade him. I walked away empty handed.
- pom0
I think i've yet to use a camera made in the past 30 years or so. I regularly use an Olympus XA2, recently sold my SX70, been using a Yashica Mat 124 / a friends Bronica ETR lately. Before the XA2 was a Spotmatic then a Canonet. The XA2 is unreal and i hate SLRs and i've been considering another rangefinder for a while now. Thinking one of the Bessa series!
- bolus0
http://www.sx70blend.com/ sx 70 film, for as long as it lasts....
sx-70 yashica 635 mamiya 7 ricoh g100 lubitel 2 and some old nikons here
just bought this:
503cx
- danthon0
It is amazing how fast a few cameras turn into a collection. I had some on a shelf above my desk that my grandfather and father gave me. Over the years people have donated a few DOZEN more that they had kicking around after they came in and saw them on display. I used to bust out the rolleis' once in awhile when I felt nostalgic.
when i get home I will post a shot of them all.
- Manitoba0
I've got a great old viewmaster camera.
Still need to get around to using it though...
- ian0
When we moved studios before christmas I found an old sx-70 sonar, was thrilled. took a few shots which came out weird, theres a major light leak in it somewhere which gives a lovey effect but effectively a dud, especially now that the sx-70 blend film is no more.
I've also got an old Russian fed-3
A Canon AE-1
And a Russian LC-A
Along with a Lomo fish-eye, a holga and two digital cameras.
- ok_not_ok0
got a:
Leica M6 + 50mm Summicron and a 35mm Summicron
Yashica Mat 124G
Olympus XA
Yashica T5
Mamiya 645 pro TL
Pentax k1000
Yashica Electro 35 GSN
Canonet G III QL
Pentax Super Program
Pentax ME Super
Leica iii
and a Hasselblad 503 CW
- YAYPaul0
I have 2 SX-70s one with auto focus one without.
And a Rollei.- have you/ are you going to mod them to take 600 film?ian
- http://www.sx70blend…bolus
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Wow, a lot more responses. Nice to see people keeping these beauties going!
