Confessions of a camera junkie.

[Stephanie Brim]

Can you find out how much it will be to ship the thing? I couldn't do it right now, but in a couple weeks it would be a possibility. I'd *really* love to test out large format gear and it doesn't have to be *that* great of a camera at first.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I'm in Iowa, USA, Earth.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

Crap...this means I really am going to have to find a flatbed scanner sooner than planned...this may be a good thing and push my photography into a new direction.

 

[Ole]

Roughly $42 judging from the internet version of the prices, which may be out by as much as 50% when I actually show up at the post office

 

[Stephanie Brim]

Okay...you've talked me into it. How can I pay? Probably should do this in PM...heh. I'll PM you with my details and we can work it out.

 

[terri]

I love collecting them. I love using them. I love the look and feel of them.

I love the fact my husband has it worse than I do, so I don't have to try to sneak odd-shaped packages from strange addresses into the house. It makes life so much easier.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

Yeah...I should let the boyfriend print with me when I do the 4x5's (that I'll no doubt absolutely love). I'm going to have to develop them in trays (which is going to be a slight pain in my butt, but not a big problem), but I'll be contact printing for a while due to lack of a 4x5 enlarger. I want to see his face when he sees the prints from those negatives.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

Well then. Someone joked (?) on RFF that I should put a Want To Buy post up for people's junkstore cameras...perhaps it isn't such a bad idea. I mean, if people aren't using them and I could...why not? Would certainly feed the GAS that I have.

 

[kaiyen]

Stephanie,
Now you're getting a 4x5, too? Or are you going to somehow fit 4x5 film into the 5x7 from Ole?

You sure do buy a lot of stuff.

allan

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I thought 13x18 was roughly 4x5 before I did the math. I just didn't edit that post.

 

[Terence]

Wow. This thread inspired/scared me into making a list of the cameras I own (the ones I can remember, anyway). If anyone's interested, maybe we start a new thread in The Lounge forum, but it breaks down as follows:
(1) 8x20 view camera
(3) 8x10 view cameras
(3) 5x7 view cameras
(7) 4x5 view cameras
(1) 2x3 view camera
(1) 70mm aerial camera
(1) A122
(4) 6x9 folders
(1) 6x6 folder
(6) 6x6 TLR
(2) 6x6 SLR
(1) 6x4.5 folder
(4) 35mm SLR
(6) 35mm RF

And lenses almost too numerous to count.

What are those 12 steps again . . .

 

[Uncle Bill]

I walked away from an Ebay Auction today

It was a Super Takumar 85/1.8 M-42 lens. Earlier this week I was gung ho to get this piece of glass but after watching the frenzy late this afternoon I bailed. The lens sold for $300 USd. that is two minty spotmatics or one OM-1/2 or $75 more gets you a canon rangefinder body. So I am taking a breather on the equipment front for now as, well, what I really want is to get a Rolleiflex this Summer. I am sooooo doomed.

Bill

 

[Ole]

Wow. This thread inspired/scared me into making a list of the cameras I own (the ones I can remember, anyway). If anyone's interested, maybe we start a new thread in The Lounge forum, but it breaks down as follows:
(1) 8x20 view camera
(3) 8x10 view cameras
(3) 5x7 view cameras
(7) 4x5 view cameras
(1) 2x3 view camera
(1) 70mm aerial camera
(1) A122
(4) 6x9 folders
(1) 6x6 folder
(6) 6x6 TLR
(2) 6x6 SLR
(1) 6x4.5 folder
(4) 35mm SLR
(6) 35mm RF

And lenses almost too numerous to count.

What are those 12 steps again . . .

WOOO!

!2 out of my 13 or so cameras fall outdide of your categories

 

[Terence]

WOOO!

!2 out of my 13 or so cameras fall outdide of your categories

Amateur.

Just kidding. Sounds like your lens collection might rival Jim Galli's, though.

 

[Terence]

WOOO!

!2 out of my 13 or so cameras fall outdide of your categories

I'm almost scared to know what other categories there are lest I lust after them as well.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

7x17, for one...Sounds interesting to me.

 

[Ole]

I'm almost scared to know what other categories there are lest I lust after them as well.

Let's see...

6.5x9cm plate cameras, 9x12cm plate cameras, 10x15cm plate cameras, 13x18cm, 18x24cm, 24x30cm and 30x40cm plate cameras; 24x58mm panorama cameras, 24x56mm panorama backs for MF cameras,...

Should I continue?

 

[Terence]

7x17, for one...Sounds interesting to me.

I've talked myself out of 7x17 as I find the prints just a little too small. Hence the 8x20. But I do find my eye wandering towards 11x14, whose contact prints look sooooo much nicer than my meesely 8x10. But after lugging around the 8x20, and not owning a car, 11x14 seems heavy. Of course, that means I should get one now before I'm too old to carry it at all . . .

 

[Gay Larson]

Anybody know where I can get some Autographic A-122 film?

If you find out, let me know, I have two of those and about 20 other old cameras, working and non working. I don't know how to stop.

 

[agGNOME]

Wow Terrence, 41? I'm feeling better now...thanks!

 

[John Koehrer]

I've talked myself out of 7x17 as I find the prints just a little too small. Hence the 8x20. But I do find my eye wandering towards 11x14, whose contact prints look sooooo much nicer than my meesely 8x10. But after lugging around the 8x20, and not owning a car, 11x14 seems heavy. Of course, that means I should get one now before I'm too old to carry it at all . . .

You just need a little red wagon!

 

[Terence]

Wow Terrence, 41? I'm feeling better now...thanks!

I think it's time to shed a few to make room for new ones. There's one or two (or twenty seven) that I don't use very often and have no sentimental/camera lust attachment to. Besides the 11x14, I've been eyeing Kodak Medalists. Despite the need to convert it to 120 from 620 they are just tooooo cool, and can be used as a hammer when required.

Of course selling any of my babies involves borrowing and learning to use one of them thar non-analog cameras.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I'm actually selling most of my things without photos. A lot of people know that I'm as honest as I can be about how good/bad things are...so they take my word for it. Heh. As of this moment, I'm sending out a scanner, a Fed-5C, some Reala, a Kodak Vest Pocket, and a Canon rangefinder lens to different people. I'm getting a ton of stuff, too. Stuff comes and stuff goes...I'm just the mediator.

 

[rbarker]

. . . Of course selling any of my babies involves borrowing and learning to use one of them thar non-analog cameras.

Or, you can use one camera to photograph another.