Camera Colecting

For a while now I bin collecting 35 mil SLR film camera's...I dragged some of them out the other day and had them laying everywhere....not enough table space...I have a two sided stand that is on wheels and will get glass shelves made up for them...I am also using them and enjoy the challenge of you have to get it right cause no instant display to see what you have taken....It looks like a mess but that okay cause me warden informed me that I have succeeded in making a mess again so I already know...






























What kin I say but I having fun with them and still learning...The same principles still apply today. it just that you can do so much more with the new digital camera's before you had to physically add a different filter or film...

 

Yah I like film too. But the digital cards are so convenient.
I have a small collection of one, a 35mm slr Leicaflex SL2.

 

I have heard about that brand but have not come across any of them here...But then we did not have many camera places here...it was a real thing when we got CKPG television...Yup it was a one only TV town but had two radio stations...I think I jist hijacked me own thread...Hijack's are good..

 

On a guess I would say early sixty's maybe....

 

Leica was a little late getting in on the slr game.

 

I bin watching for an F1 but so far the ones I find are a little more abused than I want...But I keep a looking...Has to be when have the cash also...

 

Mess, what mess?? The dog on his bed does'nt look concerned, when the dogs get stressed around here thats when my warden lets me know of a mess.....we have 2 dog beds the size like yours in our living room.

Cool camera colection, I don't know sqwat about cameras but I have my first camera still complete with box and paper work. It's a 50's Kodak....I'll post a pic when my warden gets back from the States....she has the digital camera with her

 

Nice camera collection.
I have my Dad's old 1969 Nikon Nikormat and an assortment of lenses that he bought in Japan. Great camera, but has not been touched since I got a basic digital pocket camera. I used to love developing and printing my own black and white pictures, but the convenience and versatility of digital is just no comparison.

I agree. What mess? That looks like my place AFTER I've cleaned it up.

 

Well....I still have my Olympus OM-1 system from back in my ad days. I liked shooting things up. Did some of my own B&W processing and even experimented successfully with color processing. My camera, lenses, etc cost a lot of money back then. Today nobody even wants the stuff. It's a shame but time goes on I guess. I could shoot with any camera including motion and nail it. Today, I don't even know how to use these new digital cameras. Technology has stripped me of my creativity in that area.
I remember commenting on the cameras that were sitting in the background of some of your earlier pix, FF. I think that's a cool hobby. Think about what those cameras have seen and what they were once worth. You have some really nice old stuff there.

 

The digital camera along with the computer has sure changed what can be done...I can take a picture here and then download onto computer and then to photo bucket and post on here in five minutes....Take your picture and view in viewfinder and see how it is and on you go...We used have to think about depth of field and light and on and on and then wait till you had it developed and try and remember what it was that you did...That is one reason I am still playing with the old cameras cause it makes me think..In fact I want to play around a bit with using both digital and film of taking both at the same time and get back into thinking more....Not stress out thinking but enjoyable thinking...My new Canon T1i camera I have had for six month's now and it does so many things I have not even tried yet...Car's and cameras have both come a long way...Went for a ride last year in a model A...remember the vibrations, the sounds, the feel of speed and not even doing thirty MPH yet, then get into new car and you go up to a hundred MPH and there is nothing to feel...not even have to turn up music...So for me the challenge to set up and take me picture gives a good feeling...I just acquired on Evil bay a Canon AL-1 that you could not tell from new..I came from England and landed here in my mailbox was $63.00..It came with the box it came in and the lens was also in its box and it was the 35 to 70 canon lens...In the eighty's that would have been probably three hundred for the camera and a couple hundred or so for the lens..Yes I have already shot one roll of film....When you think of it even that is amazing in my way of thinking...Seen and bid on Evil bay and three days later won it for 26 pounds and then it was 12 pounds shipping which worked out to 63 dollars on my Visa and a week later was in my mailbox and took my first picture twenty minutes later...I added an eyecup and power winder and flash and handgrip..and new batterys and in fun fun land...I think I jist wrote a book...must be happy...with any luck it give you a smile and laugh Silver...Happy laugh is real good...

 

I said it before and I'll say it again, FF. You are an interesting and talented guy. And from those early pix you posted of you digging that buried car out of the snow that wasn't even your car....you would be a good friend to have. I would like to be able to meet you some day. I believe I would find that experience to be depthful, interesting, cerebral and satisfying. Not to mention fun. Alas...we are miles and miles apart. So...I will have to be content with reading of your adventures here.

 

I'm certainly no camera expert, having only recently bought our first SLR digital (Canon Rebel). Had some fairly inexpensive 35mm's and cheaper digitals before that.

It's a bit of a shame what the digital age has done to the worth of these very good 35mm SLR film cameras. Good finds at garage sales, I imagine.....

 

You said a mouthful, KK. My OM-1 system was quite expensive with all the added accessories. Doubt if I could get 50 bucks for the whole lot now. I STILL like the look of film. When I was shooting motion and video was crowding in on me I was really upset. The look of film, to me, is far superior. But...they crammed it down our throat and everyone is now used to digital so that's what we have. I can't begin to tell you how many highly successful peripheral businesses went down the tubes because of the switch.

 

What I do like is the fact that my father in law as an extremely accomplished amateur photographer in the 50's and 60's and passed at a fairly young at in the 70's, but we have all his negatives. With the technology available we can capture all of these pics onto a CD and share them with the large family and they can print and display them as they wish. But all his camera gear, his darkroom, etc. are all now just neat things to look at. My wife's brother has it all but it is tucked away never to be used again. The father in law took so much pride in it, spent a lot of very dear money to buy it, and now it is, at best, interesting. Lyca I believe is the make of his gear.

I'm sure someone like you FF would appreciate the equipment he had gathered.

I'm just glad that someone like myself with my limited skills can take a $100 camera, go take a picture, load it and fix it so it is bright enough to make out what it was I was attempting to photograph, and then share it with anyone who wants it, and do it all in a matter of hours from start to finish. And I'm very careful to back up all my pictures so that they don't disappear forever in the nether world of wiped out hard drives.

 

Leica...top of the line years back. I never had one because the format was wrong for my liking, although, I always did want to go to a 2X2 format. They did come out with a 35 SLR later but it, too, was comparatively expensive. Just didn't want to spend the money it would take. I had friends that had nothing but Leica's and those cameras did nice things. It's a shame, Saf....I can imagine the money your FIL had wrapped up in his hobby. I would think that the Leica's would be worth more than just any camera. But I doubt it would even be worth selling. Might be interesting to keep the collection and pass it down. See what the future brings.