Selling more cameras to benefit the Catholic Community Services food bank in Ogden, Utah. Your purchase helps feed more than 6,000 people a month, so please take a look.
The Universal Camera Company is one of those things that gets darn little respect.
Maybe because some of their cameras -- I"m thinking of you, Mercury II -- are butt ugly. Maybe because the dummies sold cameras that only used Universal-brand film, made in Belgium during World War II, when the Germans made deliveries difficult.
Or perhaps just because they never made one single type of camera. They were all over the format map -- submini, miniature (35mm), roll film, 35mm, medium format and movies. They were bottom feeders, selling millions of cameras that used 6-shot rolls of film. They did sell lots, but the company never really caught on anyway. They made lots of money selling binoculars to the US Government during WWII, but wars never last forever (or at least, didn't used to) and the cruel free market did them in.
Oh well.
But their cameras had lovely design. They were made with lots of polished aluminum and stainless steel, giving them an art deco industrial-rugged look that would be Steampunk today.
Which is why I hope you'll snap up these three, which I'm selling as a group.
This Univex Iris, is the more rare deluxe version of this lovely camera. Nicely styled, fully functional, you can load it with paper-backed 35mm film should you so desire, but really, why? You can spend hours just admiring it. The bottom is smooth and won't mar papers as it keeps them from blowing away. It fits the hand neatly. McKowen's says it's even sort of valuable, if $35 is "valuable."
And look at those lines!
The Roamer medium format camera is a huge leap. It uses 120 film, has a finely detailed focusing ring that lets you select carefully measured distances with precision! At the same time, the single speed shutter spares you the tedium of calculating exposure. What part of "instant" don't you understand?
The bellows are tight. The name place is missing from the top, and the viewfinder is a titch cloudy, but look at that styling! And it comes with a top-grain USA-made leather case! It uses 120 film, too. The bellows are a bit stiff, so you have to push down on the strut to get it to unfold, but it does and can easily take pictures.
Finally up is the Cinemaster II, an 8mm movie camera that can use either the Universal-made single-8 (once through the camera) movie film, or your more standard double-8 (twice through) film.
Can you still buy film? YES YOU CAN!!!! Check out this link and start shooting glittering black and white movies! I'm thinking moody dimly lit epics, with Bogart and Bergman, Grant and Bacall.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/927375-REG/foma_411801_fomapan_r100_2x_standard.html
The Cinemaster features an internal light meter, numerous lovely shutter speeds and makes a cool buzzing sound when you wind it up.
If sold new today the movie camera alone would cost thousands of dollars. And how much am I asking?
How about $60 plus $10 postage for the lot? The $10 won't cover the cost of a flat rate box, I will eat the difference and still donate your full $60 to the Ogden food bank.
First money takes them. Please PM quickly to avoid disappointment. My paypal is
summicron12000@yahoo.com which is also my email.
USA buyers only, mostly to avoid shoving huge amounts of dollars for overseas postage when I'd rather see it go to a good charity.
As with my other sales, all proceeds go to Catholic Community Services Joyce Hansen Hall food bank in Ogden, Utah. If you have any doubts of my sincerity, I urge you to look up their number on Google, ask for the executive director Marcie Valdez, and say "This Trentelman guy, is he for real?"
She'll tell you I and my friend, who are cleaning out our camera collections for this drive, have donated more than $600 so far, and I've got a heap of cameras here waiting their turn.
Thanks for looking.
Charles Trentelman
Ogden, Utah
The Universal Camera Company is one of those things that gets darn little respect.
Maybe because some of their cameras -- I"m thinking of you, Mercury II -- are butt ugly. Maybe because the dummies sold cameras that only used Universal-brand film, made in Belgium during World War II, when the Germans made deliveries difficult.
Or perhaps just because they never made one single type of camera. They were all over the format map -- submini, miniature (35mm), roll film, 35mm, medium format and movies. They were bottom feeders, selling millions of cameras that used 6-shot rolls of film. They did sell lots, but the company never really caught on anyway. They made lots of money selling binoculars to the US Government during WWII, but wars never last forever (or at least, didn't used to) and the cruel free market did them in.
Oh well.
But their cameras had lovely design. They were made with lots of polished aluminum and stainless steel, giving them an art deco industrial-rugged look that would be Steampunk today.
Which is why I hope you'll snap up these three, which I'm selling as a group.
This Univex Iris, is the more rare deluxe version of this lovely camera. Nicely styled, fully functional, you can load it with paper-backed 35mm film should you so desire, but really, why? You can spend hours just admiring it. The bottom is smooth and won't mar papers as it keeps them from blowing away. It fits the hand neatly. McKowen's says it's even sort of valuable, if $35 is "valuable."
And look at those lines!
The Roamer medium format camera is a huge leap. It uses 120 film, has a finely detailed focusing ring that lets you select carefully measured distances with precision! At the same time, the single speed shutter spares you the tedium of calculating exposure. What part of "instant" don't you understand?
The bellows are tight. The name place is missing from the top, and the viewfinder is a titch cloudy, but look at that styling! And it comes with a top-grain USA-made leather case! It uses 120 film, too. The bellows are a bit stiff, so you have to push down on the strut to get it to unfold, but it does and can easily take pictures.
Finally up is the Cinemaster II, an 8mm movie camera that can use either the Universal-made single-8 (once through the camera) movie film, or your more standard double-8 (twice through) film.
Can you still buy film? YES YOU CAN!!!! Check out this link and start shooting glittering black and white movies! I'm thinking moody dimly lit epics, with Bogart and Bergman, Grant and Bacall.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/927375-REG/foma_411801_fomapan_r100_2x_standard.html
The Cinemaster features an internal light meter, numerous lovely shutter speeds and makes a cool buzzing sound when you wind it up.
If sold new today the movie camera alone would cost thousands of dollars. And how much am I asking?
How about $60 plus $10 postage for the lot? The $10 won't cover the cost of a flat rate box, I will eat the difference and still donate your full $60 to the Ogden food bank.
First money takes them. Please PM quickly to avoid disappointment. My paypal is
summicron12000@yahoo.com which is also my email.
USA buyers only, mostly to avoid shoving huge amounts of dollars for overseas postage when I'd rather see it go to a good charity.
As with my other sales, all proceeds go to Catholic Community Services Joyce Hansen Hall food bank in Ogden, Utah. If you have any doubts of my sincerity, I urge you to look up their number on Google, ask for the executive director Marcie Valdez, and say "This Trentelman guy, is he for real?"
She'll tell you I and my friend, who are cleaning out our camera collections for this drive, have donated more than $600 so far, and I've got a heap of cameras here waiting their turn.
Thanks for looking.
Charles Trentelman
Ogden, Utah
