Secondhand film cameras - a kid in a sweet shop
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Hello all...
Is it just me but looking through at 2nd hand camera body prices makes me feel like a kid in a sweat shop, all the cameras I either once owned or lusted after are so cheap. Nikon F4 or F5 body in good nick for a couple of hundred quid, boxed T90 - £70, Minolta 9000 - £50, canon EOS 600 - £50.
I know they are mostly obsolete, but they are still very impressive bits of kit...
Anybody else got any other Bits of kit they have bought for silly prices?
Is it just me but looking through at 2nd hand camera body prices makes me feel like a kid in a sweat shop, all the cameras I either once owned or lusted after are so cheap. Nikon F4 or F5 body in good nick for a couple of hundred quid, boxed T90 - £70, Minolta 9000 - £50, canon EOS 600 - £50.
I know they are mostly obsolete, but they are still very impressive bits of kit...
Anybody else got any other Bits of kit they have bought for silly prices?
Itsallicanafford said:
Hello all...
Is it just me but looking through at 2nd hand camera body prices makes me feel like a kid in a sweat shop, all the cameras I either once owned or lusted after are so cheap. Nikon F4 or F5 body in good nick for a couple of hundred quid, boxed T90 - £70, Minolta 9000 - £50, canon EOS 600 - £50.
I know they are mostly obsolete, but they are still very impressive bits of kit...
Anybody else got any other Bits of kit they have bought for silly prices?
And the reason we (who had much of) said kit are no longer using it is...Is it just me but looking through at 2nd hand camera body prices makes me feel like a kid in a sweat shop, all the cameras I either once owned or lusted after are so cheap. Nikon F4 or F5 body in good nick for a couple of hundred quid, boxed T90 - £70, Minolta 9000 - £50, canon EOS 600 - £50.
I know they are mostly obsolete, but they are still very impressive bits of kit...
Anybody else got any other Bits of kit they have bought for silly prices?
A contact RTS III with a vacuum system built into the film door to keep the film flat or how about a Pentax LX, built to try compete with canon and Nikon in the pro market, with interchangable finders, backs, focusing screens. Or a dynax 9, fully metal body, minoltas last pro spec camera...great, great machines
Simpo Two said:
For those not familiar with the period, 'Contax' 
Apologies, quickly typed response...Sticking with Contax, how about an AX, which autofocuses by moving the internals of the camera, rather than the lens, enabling manual focus Carl Zeiss lenses to be 'auto focused'...clever stuff
I have to hold my hands up, I bloody love older film cameras! I currently have Two SLRs, a Cannon Eos that was a gift and an Eighties Chinnon, which came with a motor wind and a nice fast 50mm lens and a medium sized zoom. Also I have an odd Russian medium format twin lens camera and a pin hole kit.
Out of the four I use the Chinnon and the Russian twin lens most of the time. The Cannon has fallen out of favour (its too modern, I'm not that keen on the controls!) and the pin hole is cool but an utter bloody faf and as such I plan to use it but haven't quite got around to it.
Out of the four I use the Chinnon and the Russian twin lens most of the time. The Cannon has fallen out of favour (its too modern, I'm not that keen on the controls!) and the pin hole is cool but an utter bloody faf and as such I plan to use it but haven't quite got around to it.
A few of mine: My first camera a Robot (a kind of Leica with a clockwork motor drive).
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My little Contax,
my enormous Fuji 
(both now sold) and yes I still have a Linhof at the back of a wardrobe somewhere.
I've got rid of all my Nikon stuff but strangely kept two sound blimps and lens tubes.
.My little Contax,
my enormous Fuji (both now sold) and yes I still have a Linhof at the back of a wardrobe somewhere.I've got rid of all my Nikon stuff but strangely kept two sound blimps and lens tubes.
Simpo Two said:
Anyone got a Hasselhoff?
No, but got a 'blad... or 4. I even put a film through them once in a blue moon...Other old film cameras I have laying about are
Kodak Retina 1B x2 (folding 35mm)
Something made in England called an Ensign (Folding 120)
Zeiss Ikon Nettar (Folding 120)
Yashicamat TLR
(some may still work...)
More modern...
Canon EOS1
Leica R9
Nikon FE2
Sinar F2
Sinar P3 (believe I can put a film back on it...)
Also have use of Wista and Walker (but really want an Ebony)
Previously owned...
Canon FTB
Canon F1 x2
Canon T90
Mamiya Press
MPP
Crown Graphic
Bronica S2a
Bronica SQ-A
Rolleiflex 6006/8
I think thats it off the top of my head...
I first got into photography because I bought an old 35mm SLR as a spur of the moment thing when I was at uni in 2002 - it was a Practica LLC and I fell in love with it. For some stupid reason I gave it away when I bought my first digital - something I have regretted for a while now.
However, I was recently given my Dad's old Voigtlander Vito CL to play with. Although I have a 400D (which is ace) it has never excited me, and I feel like a kid again waiting to go out and play with the Voigtlander.
I am off into town at lunchtime to try and find a roll of film for it to see if it still works - it was last used in the late 1980's by my dad.
Pic of my toy:
However, I was recently given my Dad's old Voigtlander Vito CL to play with. Although I have a 400D (which is ace) it has never excited me, and I feel like a kid again waiting to go out and play with the Voigtlander.
I am off into town at lunchtime to try and find a roll of film for it to see if it still works - it was last used in the late 1980's by my dad.
Pic of my toy:
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