Cheap Camera Photos

[wjlapier]

This Olympus Stylus 35mm f/3.5 cost me about 50 cents ( USD ). I found it at a thrift store last month for 95 cents and it was 50% off that day!



Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400 film:





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What is your cheapest camera you found bought ( not free )? Share some photos from it.

 

[MattKing]

Trip 35 - $2.10.
Which happens to form part of the image title: "Estuary Windfall - $2.10"

 

[jim10219]

Very nice! I used to see those all of the time at thrift stores, but then the young kids caught whiff of them and now they've gone the way of the SLR (thrift stores sell them on auction sites, demanding ridiculous money for questionable examples). I will rarely find a point and shoot, and if I do, it's usually a non functioning, no-name with a bad zoom lens. The only cameras I find these days at thrift stores (that aren't priced through the roof) are 110's.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

OM Stylus costs a lot more today.
It isn't cheap camera, lens anyway.

I had images taken with simple two af stage, triplet if not less lens.
Good results. It is not where cheap cameras fail.
If you keep the distance even cameras with fixed focus will do.

 

[Austintatious]

Vivitar Wide n Slim. Cost me a fiver brand new in box.

Bring in the Clowns by Carlos Yashinon, on Flickr

 

[Austintatious]

Nikon N70 D with data-back.Has the panorama function. This one cost me a ten spot in excellent condition.
Shrimper Pano by Carlos Yashinon, on Flickr

 

[Louis Nargi]

I have a Anasco Cadet that is over 50 years old still works but I don't know if you can get the 127 film anymore

 

[Kodachromeguy]

Here is a sample from my little Voigtlander Vito BL - $34 total from a USA eBay seller two months ago. It has a 50mm f/3.5 Color-Skopar lens. This is a coated Tessar optic that was recomputed in the early 1950s. The frames below are Ektar 100 from Vicksburg, Mississippi.

 

[CMoore]

I do not have a scanner, so you will just have to take my word....but similar to what others have posted.
In the early 1990's i bought a Canon Sure-Shot 80 (38-80).
I used it for "snap-shots" as my son grew up.
It took and still takes nice photos.
It works well for color, for my purposes.

 

[TheRook]

This Olympus Stylus 35mm f/3.5 cost me about 50 cents ( USD ). I found it at a thrift store last month for 95 cents and it was 50% off that day!



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I bought the exact same camera last summer, at a flea market for one dollar. Love the compactness - it goes with me everywhere!

 

[wjlapier]

When I wrote cheap I meant the price paid, not the current "value" or the construction of the camera/lens. This little Olympus Stylus 35/3.5 is plastic but is very compact and has a great lens! I'm glad I found it. Some nice photos in here folks. Keep 'em coming.

 

[Austintatious]

Olympus Trip Mini...a point n shoot that looks inside and out a lot like the Leica Mini and the Minolta Riva. On evilbay for about five bucks.
Organ Painting Company by Carlos Yashinon, on Flickr
There is a photo of the camera in the set on Flickr hosting this image.

 

[John51]

I'd just bought a Medalist and was searching the bay for 620 spools. Came across a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye for £5. Visible in the pics but not mentioned were 3 rolls of 620. Including postage, I got 3 spools for what I was prepared to pay for 2. Plus the Brownie.

 

[Rick A]

Olympus Auto Eye that set me back a quarter (25 cents) at a flea market.

 

[wjlapier]

That's what I'm talking about!

Some nice photos here from "cheap" cameras, folks.

Olympus Auto Eye that set me back a quarter (25 cents) at a flea market.

 

[Austintatious]

Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash. It came with the flash for $10.00 on the big auction site. I took it apart and cleaned the lens and the shutter. Works quite well now.
Farm Equipment by Carlos Yashinon, on Flickr

Looks pretty nice as well
Brownie Hawkeye Flash by Carlos Yashinon, on Flickr

 

[MultiFormat Shooter]

I have a Anasco Cadet that is over 50 years old still works but I don't know if you can get the 127 film anymore

You sure can, but the variety isn't what it once was. Alternately, if you have the means, you can cut down 120 film to 127 width, but that's a little out of my league.

https://www.freestylephoto.biz/category/1-Film?attr[]=1-275

I have no affiliation with Free Style, other than being a occasional customer.

 

[wjlapier]

You can buy 127 from Ilford in bulk but only once a year.

I have two slitters I use. 70mm to 120 and 120 to 828. The trick is getting the film back inside the backing paper.

 

[Agulliver]

I was given an Olympus Mju 1 (AKA Stylus) but have thus far only used it once. I do believe it is supposed to have a good lens and be capable of excellent shots.

I've been given a few cameras lately but the one which I bought and which I consider a bargain was the Agfa Super Silette. It's an early model with the PC sync socket on the lens plate so likely 1955 or 1956. Works perfectly. The shutter did stick at slow speeds but with regular use they've come back into spec without any repairs. I paid about £7 including post from an eBay auction a couple of years ago and I find myself using it a lot. It seems to like B&W and colour film, is small enough to fit in a pocket and though not light it doesn't weigh my pocket down either. It has a good enough range of shutter speeds and apertures to work in most conditions though I do sometimes wish it had at least 1/500s as the fastest speed. It is very versatile and the rangefinder is real aid to focusing....and I don't need a light meter. It's good for photos of people, landscapes, holiday snaps, gigs, a real jack of all trades. Perhaps a master of none, but certainly versatile and worth every penny I paid. I suspect I've put more rolls of film through it in the last two and a half years than the original owner did in the previous 60.

127 film is also available under the "Rerapan" name from specialists. It's not cheap but it is available. Ferrania intend to make 127 film when they are able to restart production.

 

[Cholentpot]

I paid $25 for a Bronica S2 with an 80 2.8 it came with a box of old flashes, bulbs and assorted useless trash. I nursed the S2 back to health, the viewfinder was jammed up and needed a new pad underneath. The only thing I kept from the bundle was the Bronica kit and a fungy old Nikkor 135 2.8. S2 is trucking along but the flash sync doesn't work so it's useless for it's intended use as a studio camera.

I put a roll or two through it every summer.

 

[cooltouch]

I was at a fellows house to buy his Nikon PB-4 bellows with slide copier and, after we got to talking a bit, he pulled out a Nikon F2S with MD-2/MB-1 motor drive combo, and gave it to me! The camera needed light seals, but that was it.

You can't beat free!

The only other camera I can recall being given was a Minolta P&S.

A few years ago, I ran across a Zeiss Ikonta 6x6 at a thrift store for $2.67. I bought it, of course.

 

[John51]

Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash. It came with the flash for $10.00 on the big auction site. I took it apart and cleaned the lens and the shutter. Works quite well now.
Farm Equipment by Carlos Yashinon, on Flickr

Looks pretty nice as well
Brownie Hawkeye Flash by Carlos Yashinon, on Flickr

Those Brownie Hawkeyes can take 120 on the supply side but you might need to bend/remove a little tab that was put there to stop the 120 fitting.

It comes in handy for respooling 620. 120 in the Hawkeye, wind it onto a 620 spool and then into the dark to finish the respooling. Halves the time spent in the dark.

Have you tried reversing the lens yet?

 

[Austintatious]

Not really into the reversed lens thing.
The 120 film works fine for it as long as you have a 620 for the take up side.

 

[Cholentpot]

Here is a shot taken on a cheap camera. A SP Panorama plastic phantastic piece of junk that has a removable mask. They tend to break after a roll or two.

 

[Wes/HikePics]

With the intensity of all the Goodwill-To-Ebay Flippers out there it is hard to get good deals where I live. We have a couple other resale/thrift stores but they are mostly clothes. But here is a list of my "cheapest" ones:

• Canon AF35ML - $3
• Pentax IQZoom 115m - $5
• Minolta Freedom Zoom Date 90T - $4
• Canon Snappy LX - $3
• Canon Snappy Q - $8
• Minolta Freedom Holiday - $5
• Canon Sure Shot 60 Zoom - $5
• Olympus Infinity 80 Zoom QD - $3
• Canon Sure Shot Owl - $3
• Olympus AZ-330 Super Zoom - $8
• And my "best cheapest", Minolta Maxxum 5000 + 50/1.7 + Maxxum 1800 Flash with Pouch + OEM strap (ALL in near mint) - $10