If I was to keep a camera in the car it would either be a disposable or some cheap plastic Kodak with the same tech as a disposable (fixed focus, 1 shutter speed, 1 aperture.)
Film camera you keep in your car?
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A camera in clear view is incentive to break into a car.
Remember when Jeep had a deal with Levi's? Their seat materiel wasn't denim but it looked similar to Levi's jeans.
Nikon should have had a Jeep edition Nikonos complete with denim looking plastic on the camera. They could have had commercials with photographers jumping out of their mud covered Jeeps holding mud covered Nikonos cameras. "Nikonos, cameras as hard working and adventurous as Jeeps and Levi's.".
Not that far fetched... In 1970 Agfa offered one of their more simple cameras together with flashcubes packed in a custom-made shoulder-bag made out of denim. It was the hub of a huge marketing ploy together with specially decorated shopwindows, even a spcial shop in one case, dune buggies and such to attract Teens and Twens to camera stores again.
You ought to leave your camera hidden in the car even if it isn't valuable. It only will invite thieves to break in regardless since they don't know it's not valuable.
True story. When I last lived in Seattle (early 2000s) there were signs in the Woodland Park reminding everyone that it was against the law to leave valuables in your car. If you reported a car break-in there, you were likely to be cited yourself for "attractive nuisance". Right or wrong, that's the way it was.
Commies like to put all of the blame on the victim.
MattKing
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I will say that up here, and particularly around Christmas each year, the police make regular requests to everyone to avoid leaving valuables in cars. In particular to avoid leaving valuables in plain sight in cars.
What typically happens if there is a car break-in is that the cost of repairing the damage to the car far exceeds the value of what is stolen.
I've never heard our police referred to as "commies" though.
What typically happens if there is a car break-in is that the cost of repairing the damage to the car far exceeds the value of what is stolen.
I've never heard our police referred to as "commies" though.
Nikon Action Touch 35mm
Owner's manual specifically warns to not leave inside a hot car.
I wasn't referring to the police as such, and their warning was appropriate and senseful given that it was the Christmas season.
Thus the need for ventilation.
Thus allowing easy break ins.
Thus allowing removal by nefarious means of said camera being ventilated. And whatever else said ventilated car expressed.
Some of my cameras are worth a bit of money and some are not but they are all of some value to me. I wouldn't want to have to spend money that I could spend on film to replace a stolen camera.
MattKing
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I paid $2.14 for my Trip 35, although it would be more expensive to replace now.
Nothing surprises me about Seattle.
Then good thing my campervan has vents on top.
It's disappointing to realise cameras we paid buttons for, would cost serious money to replace. Thinking of several clamshell Olympus's - total cost about £20. Most of the desirable stuff was sold to people who clearly wanted the cameras more than I did, from the price they were prepared to pay.
A unopened one shot loaded with HP5 is or slower B&W, would be the only camera I might leave in the car, and in a cooler at that, for any long period, just to have it in case of an misadventure, as film is still preferred, in my mind at least, over digital for legal reasons.
Otherwise, I always have some kind of daily carry camera with me,eve if it's just a XA II or Minolta 16, but usually a F1N AE or Spotmatic or an FG, which is on line to be used with the Nikon F in need of a new finder.
As for Yashica 35s, I consider these colour cameras, as they are just too good in rendering colour to be loaded with B&W.
I do have a Minolta 9 that I could use as a carry camera, but some how do no, nor other cameras that are good ones, but always used with another camera or format.
In Medium, if it's no my Hasselblad 500 cm, the Minolta Autocord, (1958 'E') or Primo Jr., but the Primo needs a new skin and the other possibility, including the Super Ikonta 6x6cm needs a CLA still.
Diana, and other small point and shoots, and small rangefinders are usually carried in the company of other 'Real' cameras, but none of these would be left in the car, for longer than a hour or two, still in a bag or the cooler.
Leaving a camera, in the car is to be 'ready' for opportunities or need, yet courting possible damage to the operation of, or the film in, makes little sense, when carrying is as easy as a everyday carry of wallets or a couple of knives, SWK and Fast Knife, some bit of Cord or String, a couple of large and small Safety Pins, or your daily carry firearm.
You just pick it up on your way out and it's there for you, always.
IMO.
Otherwise, I always have some kind of daily carry camera with me,eve if it's just a XA II or Minolta 16, but usually a F1N AE or Spotmatic or an FG, which is on line to be used with the Nikon F in need of a new finder.
As for Yashica 35s, I consider these colour cameras, as they are just too good in rendering colour to be loaded with B&W.
I do have a Minolta 9 that I could use as a carry camera, but some how do no, nor other cameras that are good ones, but always used with another camera or format.
In Medium, if it's no my Hasselblad 500 cm, the Minolta Autocord, (1958 'E') or Primo Jr., but the Primo needs a new skin and the other possibility, including the Super Ikonta 6x6cm needs a CLA still.
Diana, and other small point and shoots, and small rangefinders are usually carried in the company of other 'Real' cameras, but none of these would be left in the car, for longer than a hour or two, still in a bag or the cooler.
Leaving a camera, in the car is to be 'ready' for opportunities or need, yet courting possible damage to the operation of, or the film in, makes little sense, when carrying is as easy as a everyday carry of wallets or a couple of knives, SWK and Fast Knife, some bit of Cord or String, a couple of large and small Safety Pins, or your daily carry firearm.
You just pick it up on your way out and it's there for you, always.
IMO.
MattKing
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I am glad that I choose a camera in my car instead of a firearm.
So do reactionaries...pretty interesting.
Me to.
No to be political here, far too much, IMO, already, but you can carry both daily and still have as much film as you can carry with you.
I'll add that it's good that folks that do no want to carry, do no do so.
Matt, I'm glad you're glad to do without, and it's better for the happiness of society and better for the safety of others, as firearms do come along with a responsibility to know how and when and why to use them and too many people do no bother to learn, just buy and pocket them, and often, they chose the wrong one for their needs and abilities.
As an American, I'm happy, even ready to be a defender of other Peoples Birth Rights, however I also expect my fellow Americans to respect and protect mine and my Neighbors, as well.
Live and let live is the best medicine for Civil Rights, and the ability to go about, with what is needed to protect lives, others and your own, is a Human Right since the first beast was warded off with a rock or stick thrown by a Proto-Human.and continues to this day, in the modern Homo sapiens.
I guess I'm too political too, when it comes to Our American Rights and the Human Rights of this World we strive to live in, where ever that may be.
IMO.
I'll add that it's good that folks that do no want to carry, do no do so.
Matt, I'm glad you're glad to do without, and it's better for the happiness of society and better for the safety of others, as firearms do come along with a responsibility to know how and when and why to use them and too many people do no bother to learn, just buy and pocket them, and often, they chose the wrong one for their needs and abilities.
As an American, I'm happy, even ready to be a defender of other Peoples Birth Rights, however I also expect my fellow Americans to respect and protect mine and my Neighbors, as well.
Live and let live is the best medicine for Civil Rights, and the ability to go about, with what is needed to protect lives, others and your own, is a Human Right since the first beast was warded off with a rock or stick thrown by a Proto-Human.and continues to this day, in the modern Homo sapiens.
I guess I'm too political too, when it comes to Our American Rights and the Human Rights of this World we strive to live in, where ever that may be.
IMO.
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That is my main concern.
Then the person that took my Nikon F2 finds out that the Pawn Shop will only give them 5 bux for it, and nobody on Craigslist wants it, they may come back and vandalize my car in anger.
That is my main concern.
Then the person that took my Nikon F2 finds out that the Pawn Shop will only give them 5 bux for it, and nobody on Craigslist wants it, they may come back and vandalize my car in anger.
Why did you live a great camera like the Nikon F2 sit in a car so it could be stolen?
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