Post your "old camera collection" photos

[Inphoto]

This is a thread to post photos of old cameras you are collecting.
Please describe a bit the camera operation, how it came to your hands and post some photos of the camera and/or photos taken with it.

 

[electronpusher]

A little mahogany & brass from my collection.

 

[electronpusher]

My Zeiss Contaflex collection, taken a few years ago. Introduced in the early 50s and ran through the late 60s. Solid little 35mm cameras. I went "completeist" collecting these, and still don't have a few models, but they were inexpensive and fun to find. All have working shutters but no idea how accurate they are.

-Dennis

 

[electronpusher]

Eastman Kodak No. 4 Series D plate camera, 1901 - 1903. Bausch & Lomb Rapid Rectilinear f/4 lens, 1 - 1/00 sec (+ B & T) Unicum pneumatic shutter, long bellows extension, 4" x 5" plates, double swing back, rising/falling/sliding front lens. Only 2100 made.

 

[electronpusher]

Sanderson De Luxe Hand & Stand, 1906. Quarter plate (3 1/4 x 4 1/4"). Rochester Optical Premo Shutter (1 - 1/100 sec, T, B), f/4 rapid rectilinear lens. Rack & pinion rising front. Designed by F. H. Sanderson (1856-1929), a cabinetmaker and photographer specializing in architectural subjects, designing the Universal Swing Front (Patent 1895). Cameras were made and sold by Houghtons Ltd.

 

[photohenk]

Part of my collection...

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

I would have started this thread if it wasn't already done. here goes with my first post on FOP, Focus on Photography

I have always wanted a Hassleblad but couldn't justify the prices. Well one of the ham radio operators in our club who I have known for years passed away last year and they are disposing of his estate. Turns out he was an avid photographer, along with 5 Graphics (3 - 4x5's) he had 3 Hassleblads. A 503CX, 500CM and an old 1000F. they are hoping to get good money for most of the gear but I was able to get the 1000f for $100. Yes it is not a Hassey lens, a Kodak f/2.8 but the shutter works and sounds accurate, the lens has no haze or fungus and other than showing its age it seems in pretty good shape. The focal plane shutter seems fine.
I will run some film through it this weekend.

 

[electronpusher]

I would have started this thread if it wasn't already done. here goes with my first post on FOP, Focus on Photography

I have always wanted a Hassleblad but couldn't justify the prices. Well one of the ham radio operators in our club who I have known for years passed away last year and they are disposing of his estate. Turns out he was an avid photographer, along with 5 Graphics (3 - 4x5's) he had 3 Hassleblads. A 503CX, 500CM and an old 1000F. they are hoping to get good money for most of the gear but I was able to get the 1000f for $100. Yes it is not a Hassey lens, a Kodak f/2.8 but the shutter works and sounds accurate, the lens has no haze or fungus and other than showing its age it seems in pretty good shape. The focal plane shutter seems fine.
I will run some film through it this weekend.View attachment 1758View attachment 1759

Sounds like a great opportunity to own a Hassey. I've always wanted one as well, but the prices are still too high. I decided to get an RB67 instead and added a few lenses along the way. Still, there's something so classic about a Hasselblad. Maybe one day. Enjoy your 1000F!

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

Sounds like a great opportunity to own a Hassey. I've always wanted one as well, but the prices are still too high. I decided to get an RB67 instead and added a few lenses along the way. Still, there's something so classic about a Hasselblad. Maybe one day. Enjoy your 1000F!

A lot of people would turn their nose up at this camera due to the chrome bubbling and lifting in places, in fact on the old camera FB site someone called it trashed. Well to me it shows honest wear and tear, the padding on the sides is perfect it is only the chrome, it seems to work fine. Even if it became a shelf queen it is worth the $100.

I am still learning about it, loaded some Tri-X and forgot that you have to turn the knob on the right side of the film back to advance the film to number one so I blew one exposure. Will see what I get with this roll. Starting at 1/250 for this roll and use different F stops

 

[Pagman]

Part of my collection...

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Wow - I used to own a Canon 35 Trip many many moons ago.

P.

 

[Inphoto]

Rangefinders

 

[Inphoto]

Zenit S, 39mm thread for SLR (not M39 Leica Thread mount)

 

[Ray Petri]

Sanderson De Luxe Hand & Stand, 1906. Quarter plate (3 1/4 x 4 1/4"). Rochester Optical Premo Shutter (1 - 1/100 sec, T, B), f/4 rapid rectilinear lens. Rack & pinion rising front. Designed by F. H. Sanderson (1856-1929), a cabinetmaker and photographer specializing in architectural subjects, designing the Universal Swing Front (Patent 1895). Cameras were made and sold by Houghtons Ltd.

Just gone green with envy, Electronpusher - Beautiful examples of yesteryear! All of them!

 

[MakisM1]

I need to shoot another family reunion!... This is 10 years old!



Left to right, my first SLR Canon FTb, my first own camera a Russian Lubitel 2 and my first autofocus camera the Canon 630. I think Canon adopted the sobriquet EOS shortly after and quite commonly it is referred as the Canon EOS 630 (I am not sure whether there is a conflict with a similarly named Rebel series)

 

[electronpusher]

Just gone green with envy, Electronpusher - Beautiful examples of yesteryear! All of them!

Thanks, Ray. These were ported over from POTN to save before the site closes. I'll continue to post those a few at a time, but don't want to hog the thread. The Kodak No. 4 was one of my first purchases when I started to collect - an online auction with some amazing museum-quality items. I was new to collecting and paid too much, but I had to have it. The Sanderson was an early purchase as well, requiring a little cleaning, but I try not to remove brass lacquer or wood finish. It was the beginning of my vintage collection and my dive into the history of photography.

 

[Ray Petri]

Great Stuff, Dennis. How did you port the images over or was it from your archived files?
I have all of my images in both High and low resolution versions on several SSDs. I should have filed them better because I am never sure if I am on the latest version of my backup!

 

[electronpusher]

Great Stuff, Dennis. How did you port the images over or was it from your archived files?
I have all of my images in both High and low resolution versions on several SSDs. I should have filed them better because I am never sure if I am on the latest version of my backup!

I first saved the pages in threads that contained my original posts at POTN, locally, in HTML format. The pics were in the saved posts' associated subfolders. After that, it was easy to copy both the photos and text to post here. I do have all my posted photos saved in a "POTN Photos" folder on my RAID NAS box, but using the info from the saved threads was easier.

 

[MakisM1]

Thanks, Ray. These were ported over from POTN to save before the site closes. I'll continue to post those a few at a time, but don't want to hog the thread. The Kodak No. 4 was one of my first purchases when I started to collect - an online auction with some amazing museum-quality items. I was new to collecting and paid too much, but I had to have it. The Sanderson was an early purchase as well, requiring a little cleaning, but I try not to remove brass lacquer or wood finish. It was the beginning of my vintage collection and my dive into the history of photography.

Hog it, hog it please! One camera at a time...

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

Hasselblad 1000f, well I ran a roll of Tri-X through the blad, messed up with not loading but turning it to the first frame so missed #1. Then I remembered you have to turn the "knob" on the film back to get to the first frame, I took it to #2. I took a variety of shots around the house and in the backyard, I noticed that after taking number 7 and looking in the back of the film back that then number didn't show. For the next exposure I watched the back of the film as it advanced, it got to number 8 just before the winder reached the end, then winder sets the shutter with the last partial turn and the number 8 moved off the back view port. I will be getting the film back in a few days and we will see what I got or if there is light leak or what.

 

[electronpusher]

J. Lizars Challenge C, 1910-1920, 1/4 plate hand camera. 1 - 1/100 sec Gautheir Ibso shutter, Aldis #2 Anastigmat f/6 lens, rising and falling front standard. Lizars was founded in 1830 by the optician John Lizars (1810-1879) in Glasgow, Scotland, later continued by the Ballentine family. Lizars also made additional optical instruments, including eye glasses, telescopes, microscopes, thermometers and binoculars. Lizars merged with C. Jeffery Black in 1999, forming Black and Lizars opticians in Scotland & Northern Ireland.

This one's a bit of a puzzle. The "Challenge C" is the most likely model, but I've not found an exact match to date. Although the plate holder is 1/4 plate size (3 1/4 x 4 1/4"), the image opening measures 3 x 3 1/4" which is not a standard size. The plate holder was probably used to produce 3 1/4 x 3 1/4" glass lantern slides.