What is the rarest camera/lens you own?

[wtburton]

Camera probably a working LaRose Rapitake

 

[davela]

My newest and now probably rarest lens:

24mm Lithagon for my East German Edixa Reflex.

The Lithagon was one of the first retrofocus 24mm designs. Everyone knows the Flectagon, but not many know of the Lithagon; different manufacturer also. The Lithagon is made by Enna.

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I have a Lithagon 24/4 - in Praktina mount of all things - a wonderful lens, and yes quite uncommon!

 

[Mr Flibble]

I mentioned it before in this thread, years ago, but never shared an image of it

Argus Model K , some 2000 made.


Another 'recent' 'rare' acquisition

Balda Super Pontura

 

[ic-racer]

I have a Lithagon 24/4 - in Praktina mount of all things - a wonderful lens, and yes quite uncommon!

Very nice.

 

[dxqcanada]

 

[mshchem]

Nothing rare, scarse yes. Nikon 105mm bellows lens for PB-4 bellows. I have some really weird old darkroom equipment.

 

[Kino]

I mentioned it before in this thread, years ago, but never shared an image of it

Argus Model K , some 2000 made.

Another 'recent' 'rare' acquisition

Balda Super Pontura

Interesting Argus camera; have never seen an example.

That Balda Super Pontura looks incredible! How nice!

 

[varg]

Goltz & Breutmann Mentor Reflex 9x12cm
With Carl Zeiss Jena pre series Teleobjektiv 800mm f/10
Later it were produced under the name "Magnar"
Only one of the camera/lens combination is known.
Weight is ~10kg (21 pounds)

 

[Disconnekt]

Goltz & Breutmann Mentor Reflex 9x12cm
With Carl Zeiss Jena pre series Teleobjektiv 800mm f/10
Later it were produced under the name "Magnar"
Only one of the camera/lens combination is known.
Weight is ~10kg (21 pounds)

Wooow, that be one *THICC* boi

 

[choiliefan]

Wow, that's a beauty.
How do you focus that baby?

 

[varg]

Wow, that's a beauty.
How do you focus that baby?

It is a SLR camera, it is possible to focus through the waist level finder or on the ground glass of the back.
The lens has a front focussing element.
The shutter is not working but I tested the handling and for a camera of this weight it works great. The tele photo lens is good to focus.

Made in 1910 and it were the the camera of an alpinist from Dresden and I got it from a friend of him.
Very sad, no pictures are found taken with this big camera. All of it were destroit on the bomb night in Dresden.
F..k off all wars!

When I think that I should climb in the mountains with this "monster", no thanks, I`am too old for this!

 

[Mr Flibble]

Picked up this Leica MD-2 at the start of the month. Only 1800 of these were made between 1980 and 1986.

 

[varg]

Picked up this Leica MD-2 at the start of the month. Only 1800 of these were made between 1980 and 1986.

I have had one of this cameras, very rare ones, really, but I used it with a Contarex Biogon 21mm f/4.5
An excellent combination.

Now I use a Contarex microscope camera with a Carl Zeiss F-Distagon 16mm f/2.8
Very rare, unique, I gave only one of this cameras a Rollei/Voigtlander bayonett.
More angle of view is nearly impossible.
It works, really!

 

[Mr Flibble]

I have had one of this cameras, very rare ones, really, but I used it with a Contarex Biogon 21mm f/4.5
An excellent combination.

Now I use a Contarex microscope camera with a Carl Zeiss F-Distagon 16mm f/2.8
Very rare, unique, I gave only one of this cameras a Rollei/Voigtlander bayonett.
More angle of view is nearly impossible.
It works, really!

That's also a very sweet set-up.

 

[Mogens]

I think I read that there are only about 2,000 copies of the Rolleiflex 3.5e2. So probably that. But I'm not really a collector.

 

[Rayt]

My Rolleiwide should be pretty rare. I don’t use it much because I usually travel with the 3.5F with an Hasselblad SWC and don’t need anything in between. The 75mm on the F works better for me than the 55mm Zeiss if I only take one camera.

 

[benjiboy]

I don't think any of my lenses are exceptionally rare, but some of the less common ones are the FD 35 mm F 2 concave Thorium lens, the Canon FD 85 mm F 2.8 soft focus lens, the Canon FD 20 - 35 F 3.5 L zoom, and the Tamron Adaptall SP 17mm f3.5 ultra wide angle lens.

 

[moggi1964]

1936 issue Ihagee Kine Exacta with the round window. Currently in Gorlitz Germany being serviced. 1400 were made.

 

[Rayt]

I have a Rolleiflex 3.5E3 with an uncoupled meter. I thought the point of the E3 was a meterless F?

 

[Dustin McAmera]

I don't have anything rare in collector's terms.

I have a quarter-plate Ensign Special Reflex. I have seen several others like it for sale, and pictures of a couple, including a tropical one, are up at Flickr. As far as I know, my photos are the only ones at Flickr taken with the camera though.

I also have a Zeiss Ikon Bobette II. This is an Ernemann model, which Zeiss Ikon kept making for a couple of years after the merger creating the company in 1926. It makes images 22x32mm on 35mm-wide roll film, with a backing paper. I had to make a couple of spools and cut film to size to use it, and make it an aperture scale.

 

[CrisMar]

I think that the Ganzini & Namias Aristograph Nr2 I own is the only "rare" camera, I only could find it in some old 1900s catalogue, no photos of other ones as of now...

 

[Sanug]

Asahi SMC Takumar 3.5/15mm M42. With the aspherical element. Huge, beautiful and very rare.

 

[Mark J]

Wow, that must be rare - I never knew Pentax had made a 15, especially an M42-fit !

 

[Chuck1]

Saw a k mount 15mm listed for sale recently, didn't know it existed

 

[Sanug]

This lens came as Takumar M42, Pentax K and Pentax A. All very rare and expensive. Less than 1000 pieces each has been made.