Vintage Watches are great, but let’s see some Vintage Cameras

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Still fun. My daughter has a remake that she uses regularly to take photos of friends when they visit. (Think Monty Python, "I'm not dead yet!")

 
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Pocketable and lots of fun - just wish that color film prices weren't this ridiculous at the moment, it's staggering to see most consumer (not professional) films almost hitting 10 dollars a roll.
 
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This one is a bit different. My father used to like to free dive and spearfish in the 60’s. This is his old underwater camera. Pretty rudimentary but did the job.

 
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This one is a bit different. My father used to like to free dive and spearfish in the 60’s. This is his old underwater camera. Pretty rudimentary but did the job.

That is fabulous! We had a functional Fairchild K20 aerial camera at my last job that we had modified for modern 4” Ilford reels. This is very much the same kind of principle.
I processed those reels in 3.5g dip & dunk tanks in blackness- it was such a pain in the ass but the resulting reels of 4x5 aerial film was awesome.
 
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I have never have had in my hands something of such a quality. Linhof Mastertechnika.
absolutely fantastic!
 
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I just found another of my old cameras. Had this for 30 years. Found it in a secondhand store in Frankston. Thought it was cool to get it in the box with instructions.
Kodak No.1 Folding Camera.

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I just found another of my old cameras. Had this for 30 years. Found it in a secondhand store in Frankston. Thought it was cool to get it in the box with instructions.
Kodak No.1 Folding Camera.

Wow!
 
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Just found my dad’s OM1 and my OM10. Learnt photography on dad’s camera. He bought it when I was a baby. Always got a chuckle with the slide filters with shapes.
 
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Figured this thread might be the right place for this:





While the Contax D seems to be a bit of a weird camera, I am looking forward to using the lens for its swirly bokeh.
 
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Figured this thread might be the right place for this:





While the Contax D seems to be a bit of a weird camera, I am looking forward to using the lens for its swirly bokeh.
Provided the glass if free of haze or fungus, the 58 Biotar is known to produce some pretty amazing portraits. What camera are you adapting it to? Or are you shooting it on film?
 
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Figured this thread might be the right place for this:





While the Contax D seems to be a bit of a weird camera, I am looking forward to using the lens for its swirly bokeh.

Contax were a German and then East German manufacturer of really beautifully made cameras, in the same kind of league in terms of quality, as Voightlander, Leica, Hasselblad etc; as long as it's working okay you should be able to get great results from that camera together with the Zeiss 'Jenna' East German lens👍
 
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.. actually, if anybody's interested, I'll be selling a Swiss-made large format Sinar, with a lot of accessories and several lenses very shortly.. It's in a couple of different locations so I have to excavate and bring it all back together ready for sale. I'm based in London
 
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A sea is sad unwanted toys. I have a couple EM’s and FA’s in a box of unloved toys. They keep following me home!!
 
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I always wanted one of these..

You now have 10 Seconds to Comply!!!!!
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Provided the glass if free of haze or fungus, the 58 Biotar is known to produce some pretty amazing portraits. What camera are you adapting it to? Or are you shooting it on film?
Planning on shooting it with a Pentax SV when I get some time, but for now I've stick it on my A7III. The glass is thankfully quite clean, with the only real issues being some bubbles in the glass elements.