Most Useless MF Vintage Camera?

[Sirius Glass]

Ummm.... While many of us have had fun trashing disc cameras or the APS format, wasn't the initial thread titled
Most Useless MF Vintage Camera? Can we perhaps get back to the original topic?
I would like to think that Box Brownies, etc, and other cheap and cheerful cameras launched many of us on that upward path.... Jus' sayin'.....

I for one started with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Camera.

 

[railwayman3]

I for one started with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Camera.

Very similarly, I started with a Brownie Cresta II120 camera ( http://www.brownie-camera.com/18.shtml ), a Birthday gift from my Mother. Fixed speed, with sliding close-up lens and yellow filter.
Produced great family snaps, and taught me the need for correct light for the fixed exposure, the need for "focussing" (i.e. using the close-up lens for closer views, and not trying to take shots of things six inches away) and the basics of why filters were useful at times. Lasted several years until I became more seriously interested in picture-taking (at about the same time as the lens fell out when I dropped the camera).

 

[redrockcoulee]

Very nice picture. I have a Argus seventy five that I flipped the lense on.
Tree by Paul Fitz, on Flickr

The man part vi by Paul Fitz, on Flickr

Something to do with my Argus 75. That alone makes this a good thread

 

[Alan Gales]

Any shelf queens. Cameras may be pretty but they were made to be used.

 

[John51]

I for one started with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Camera.

Does 127 count as medium format?

My first camera came from Bazooka Joe.

http://www.tvparty.com/bgifs24/bazook-head.jpg

 

[ruilourosa]

there are some cameras that i use less...

 

[Magnus919]

Ansco Speedex B2 Junior. I had one gifted to me. I've run a couple of rolls through it. But it's very much a paleo hipster camera. Which is fine if that's your kind of thing. I like a bit more control, quality.

 

[removed account4]

im at a loss why cameras are useless ? if they capture latent images they work as intended.

 

[AndyH]

But it's very much a paleo hipster camera. Which is fine if that's your kind of thing.

I absolutely love this phrase and I think I know exactly what you mean!

Now what are some other paleo hipster cameras? Kodak Duoflex? Hawkeye Brownie? Do Dianas and Lomos count?

Andy

 

[Magnus919]

I absolutely love this phrase and I think I know exactly what you mean!

Now what are some other paleo hipster cameras? Kodak Duoflex? Hawkeye Brownie? Do Dianas and Lomos count?

I think a paleo hipster camera could be any low-end vintage camera with limited (or no) exposure controls and an overall pattern of cost-cutting in areas like film advance, focus, optics, etc.

This Ansco Speedex Jr is *barely* more sophisticated than a Holga.

 

[Arklatexian]

I for one started with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Camera.

Yours truly began this "long, long, trail awinding", with a "baby-brownie", new, with one roll of 127 film for the almost impossibly expensive price (for a kid in those days) of seventy-five cents. Plus, that roll of film, Verichrome (ortho) was the first roll of film that I developed (under a red safe-light in MQ developer, vinegar and Hypo fixer,) 78 years ago. Still believe in and use stop bath.)............Regards!

 

[AndyH]

My first camera was a TLR. Sersly...

If that's not paleo hipster, what is?

Andy

 

[removed account4]

I think a paleo hipster camera could be any low-end vintage camera with limited (or no) exposure controls and an overall pattern of cost-cutting in areas like film advance, focus, optics, etc.

This Ansco Speedex Jr is *barely* more sophisticated than a Holga.

so you mean a point and shoot or box camera ?not sure what that has to do with paleo or hipsters
im neither of those things and i have been shooting them for 30 years..

 

[Magnus919]

i have been shooting them for 30 years..

Before it was cool?