Do any of you have a "birth year camera"?

[RalphLambrecht]

better yet. I still have my father's camera, which he took to take my baby pictures, including some of the negs he took.

 

[Maris]

Birth year lens: Voigtlander Braunschweig Heliar 1:4.5 /21cm in a Compound shutter. We both still operate and make photographs although well out of original calibration.

 

[mshchem]

I have a Leica that was made in 1933. I'm from December of 56. I think, other than that old Leica every thing is newer than me. I'm not sure if that should make me happy or sad.

 

[loccdor]

Last year when I visited my father, I took my birth year camera, Canon T-90, 1986. Attached to it was his birth year lens, Jupiter-9 85mm f/2, made in 1958. The lens and camera have some wear, and so do we.

 

[FriedLouisStudio]

I was born in 1955. I have a 1956 Minox IIIs that I carried daily for many years. I recently got a 1955 Leica IIIf.

I've got a bunch of late fifties/earliest sixties cameras too. Not to mention older thirties/forties Kodaks and Graphics.

 

[guangong]

My friend gifted me a very early Leica IIIa for my birthday about 20 yrs ago. Both myself and camera still going strong.

 

[Besk]

Not too many cameras I would want that were made in my birth year- 1943.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

I have a Leica that was made in 1933. I'm from December of 56. I think, other than that old Leica every thing is newer than me. I'm not sure if that should make me happy or sad.

Happy, nobody has yet come up with a good alternative to getting old.

 

[eli griggs]

Yes, the Minolta "export" 6x6cm, TLR, 1958.

I may have others but it's nothing I care to research.

 

[Rolleiflexible]

I've not shot 35mm in ages. But I still have my old M3, serial 918xxx. The Leica files show it as part of a block of M3s that left the factory on January 14, 1958. I was born nine days later.

 

[flyingchange]

Oh gosh I do, got an AE-1 when I started with film but didn't realize until after I'd gotten it that they came out the year I was born. A few months after I came out tho.

 

[Rolleiflexible]

Happy, nobody has yet come up with a good alternative to getting old.

Are you old enough to remember Logan's Run? :-D

 

[abruzzi]

Are you old enough to remember Logan's Run? :-D

time to get renewed on Carousel!

 

[madNbad]

The M3 stared production the year I was born but have always preferred the M2 or M4.
I do own a Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1 that came off the line on my twenty second birthday.

 

[Philippe-Georges]

I've not shot 35mm in ages. But I still have my old M3, serial 918xxx. The Leica files show it as part of a block of M3s that left the factory on January 14, 1958. I was born nine days later.

This what I have too, a 1958 M3 with a Summicron 50mm rigid 7 elements, but I was born exactly I day later than your M3...

But I really would like to have and shoot a 1958 Hasselblad with matching Planar 80mm, just for the fun of it...

 

[c.d.ewen]

OK, I'll confess - I've got a Leica IIIc S/N 423xxx, which I believe equals to my birth year, 1946. I've also got a Nicca marked, "Made in Occupied Japan", which is close enough for me.

Charley

 

[Klaus_H]

AGFA Super Isolette.
The camera was overhauled a few years ago. It is still in use.

 

[DWThomas]

Hmmm -- were I running for office I might claim to have a birth year camera. That's based on the Argus C-3 having appeared in 1939 and produced into the 1960s. I appeared in 1941, but didn't acquire my C-3 until the end of 1957. Still have it, it's still operable. There are results from it in my galleries here related to it's use for annual "Argus Day" festivities.

I also own a Burke & James Press 4x5 for which dating seems a bit murky, but I believe goes back to "somewhere" in the 1940s. (I acquired it circa 1963.)

[brief interruption]
Ah! Quick research indicates the Kodak Brownie Target Six-20 box camera began in 1941. I was gifted a new one circa 1949 (probably to keep me away from Mom's folding Kodak -- model and current whereabouts unknown,) I still have the Brownie, it still works.

"Time sure flies -- whether you're having fun or not!"