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How many film cameras do people still own and use?


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It is fairly certain that I have more top-quality film cameras than most. I have perhaps only one collectors camera. But this post is not about me.

 

I imagine when I die my estate will be dispatched at auction for pennies on the dollar. Nobody and nobody knows photography in the boonies.

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Ok, here we go:

 

Leica I Standard, II, M4-2, M6

Pentax H1a, MX, ME Super, 67

Yashica TL-Electro, TL-E, D, E, Mat 124G, 44A

Graphic 35

Zeiss Ikon Ikonta C 521/2 (x2), Super Ikonta A531, Nettar A (x2), 520/18 Baby Ikonta

RHS Model A 4x5

Burke and James Grover 8x10

 

Plus a couple vintage Kodak Autographs and a Brownie 2A

 

They all work!

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Well, my disposition strategy seems to have failed. Since my earlier post I have acquired two Minoltas, an XG-M and an SRT 100 in almost new condition, along with several Minolta lenses at a charity shop for less than $20 USD (total). I then picked up a couple of used other Minolta lenses to complement to stable. Two other RF cameras I had put up for sale at dirt cheap prices failed to attract any attention. I just guess my executrix, someday, will exhaust her 4 letter word vocabulary over my pecadillos when she starts counting the camera bodies and lenses.

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It is fairly certain that I have more top-quality film cameras than most. I have perhaps only one collectors camera. But this post is not about me.

 

I imagine when I die my estate will be dispatched at auction for pennies on the dollar. Nobody and nobody knows photography in the boonies.

 

:D Drop me a mail when you die and I'll fly over to bid the price up :p

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The ones I use on almost regular basis:

 

Leica m7 (50f2 - 35F2)

Voitglander Bessa R (cv35F1,7-cv 50f2 heliar anniversary edition- cv 75F2,5-cv12F5,6)

Nikon FM2 (50F2 AIS)

Zeiss Super Ikonta

 

Sometimes I use:

Nikon F100 (20F2,8)

Rolleiflex F3,5 (this was my father's camera!)

 

Selten use,just to keep them working:

 

Rollei 35 Tessar

Minolta SRT 101 (50 F1,7 this was my first serious camera, very proud because Annie Leibovitz started her career with the same model :D )

 

A couple of Polaroid sx70 (one is dead!) and a Polaroid 340 (if only Fuji would not stop the production of the FP3000B :mad:)

 

Enough to play with for the moment.

 

robert

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Pentax 6x7 and lenses

1915 Kodak vest pocket

1980s Nikon AF 35mm (good lens)

Holga

 

For work: Nikon FM2

 

Wish list

Hasselblad x-pan (one day...)

Leica M

Rollie 35T (had one, always regretted selling it)

enough money to buy my wish list!!! :p

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