Time to thin the herd, my loss is your gain. These are two lovely collectible/users.
(SOLD) The Kodak Retina is one of the earliest, comes complete with this lovely case which is intact, no loose stitching. The camera is solid, one tiny bit of something in the finder but otherwise clean, no dents, bumps, scratches or infestations. The shutter works smoothly and snappily at all speeds, lens is clear and clean and produces amazing results, as you would expect. Given what people are paying for crap point-and-shoot cameras these days, this is a real user bargain and much higher quality.
Also a lot cooler looking. See below for photo taken with this camera.
(SOLD) The Mercury is also very clean. The shutter runs a bit slow and this camera would need to be hand-loaded in the darkroom because it does not use a standard film cassette. It does have two -- yes two -- film spools in it so if you want to hand roll some 35mm and try it out you certainly could.
Or just keep it on the shelf where folks can marvel at its unique design.
Asking $60 each, which includes shipping anywhere in the USA. You can buy both for $110. If you can pick them up in Ogden, Utah, I'll drop that to $100 and buy the first round of Polygamy beer. I can take paypal at summicron12000@yahoo.com, which is also my email.
Thanks for looking
Charlie Trentelman
(SOLD) The Kodak Retina is one of the earliest, comes complete with this lovely case which is intact, no loose stitching. The camera is solid, one tiny bit of something in the finder but otherwise clean, no dents, bumps, scratches or infestations. The shutter works smoothly and snappily at all speeds, lens is clear and clean and produces amazing results, as you would expect. Given what people are paying for crap point-and-shoot cameras these days, this is a real user bargain and much higher quality.
Also a lot cooler looking. See below for photo taken with this camera.
(SOLD) The Mercury is also very clean. The shutter runs a bit slow and this camera would need to be hand-loaded in the darkroom because it does not use a standard film cassette. It does have two -- yes two -- film spools in it so if you want to hand roll some 35mm and try it out you certainly could.
Or just keep it on the shelf where folks can marvel at its unique design.
Asking $60 each, which includes shipping anywhere in the USA. You can buy both for $110. If you can pick them up in Ogden, Utah, I'll drop that to $100 and buy the first round of Polygamy beer. I can take paypal at summicron12000@yahoo.com, which is also my email.
Thanks for looking
Charlie Trentelman
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