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A while back I gave a lot of my old, worthless and non-functional folding cameras to my kid who is into recycling.

Today he gave me this for my birthday...really bright idea, huh?:tongue:


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As long as these cameras are "old, worthless and non-functional," I have no problem with this use. However, I do not collect cameras, I rescue them and I wonder if some, at least, of these cameras might be brought back to life. I do not doubt in this case the camera was terminal but as a general rule I am dubious of this whole idea.I am currently making Sterampunk Cameras and am making sure than no viable camera is harmed in an way.Some people might suggest an old folder could live again as pinhole camera.
 

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Snapguy -- I understand what you are saying and, to a point, even agree -- but I picked up a grundle of this sort of camera back in my "wow that's cool!" collecting phase and, like most collectors who start out as accumulators, ended up with several cubic feet of cameras that worked poorly if at all and used odd-sized film (620 in this case) that could not be sold and repaired only at great time expense.

My darkroom needed the space. So I gave them to my kids, who are very artistic, to use as art supplies. Not that much different from the guy who covered a car with cameras, or the guy who built a wall out of Argus C3 (brick) cameras. In a way this even does collectors of the world a favor -- thinning the field and recycling less wastefully.
 

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I understand. I was just urging caution. I am working on a couple of projects that utilize ancient, creaky but cool cameras in such a way the cameras could always be rescued and used again to take photos. The cameras are not harmed, just re-purposed. When the North Koreans and the Iranians get together with Putin and the Chinese Reds and wreck the Internet and our electrical infrastructure we just may need all our analog cameras. And typewriters.
 
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I understand. I was just urging caution. I am working on a couple of projects that utilize ancient, creaky but cool cameras in such a way the cameras could always be rescued and used again to take photos. The cameras are not harmed, just re-purposed. When the North Koreans and the Iranians get together with Putin and the Chinese Reds and wreck the Internet and our electrical infrastructure we just may need all our analog cameras. And typewriters.

DEFINITELY typewriters. :tongue:

And not to worry, I've got boxes full of "Hmmm, that one still sort of works" cameras that aren't going anywhere.

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