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What To Do With Cameras You Are No longer Using.

If a camera is realistically beyond repair, and is going to sit in a drawer until it's thrown out years later by your executor, I think I can see this.
I suppose with the obsolescence rate of digital equipment, artists in the near future are going to have lots of material to work with!
 

"Executor". Ugh...

I'm sure that in the holidays he sidelines as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
 
You could take the lenses off them and use them as ash trays, but I don't smoke because I stopped about 25 years ago.
 
The lamps are a great idea.

I have a few truely dead cameras that are just too nice to trash n would make beautiful desk lamps.... Christmass presents?
 
My girlfriend eventually brings a long unused camera off the shelf and asks "does this work?". That how I know it's on its way to goodwill.. I feel like turning a camera I loved into a lamp would be like taking my dead dog to a taxidermist.
 
JohnLikesPhotos said:
My girlfriend eventually brings a long unused camera off the shelf and asks "does this work?". That how I know it's on its way to goodwill.. I feel like turning a camera I loved into a lamp would be like taking my dead dog to a taxidermist.
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Ha! Great reply! Sorta a neat idea but at the same time these camera lights strike me as very sad.
 
I see that no-one has picked up on the words in the article:
Now that film is almost obsolete, you're probably wondering what to do with that beautiful old Minolta taking up precious space in your desk drawer. Well, have you ever considered building furniture out of it?
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'Its an outrage, it is....'
 
Antique typewriters have seen a significant price bump as their keys have become fashionable among housewives that fancy themselves as "designers" who "recycle" such things into trinkets and jewelry that will be in the landfill in 18 months. My offspring tells me this is another sign of my aging that things like that bother me.
 
hoffy said:
I see that no-one has picked up on the words in the article:


'Its an outrage, it is....'
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They leapt out at me, all right.
Film is dead because gizmodo says so... yeah right. You have to have the mind of a magpie (shiny things, no intellect nor attention span) to take that rag seriously.
 
Well, They are lots of tools which is using in Old camera to modify their angle and direction.
 
Atrocity! Another little observation that perturbs me is the Hipster's fad use of old wooden tripods converted into standing lamps. I rescued one from a NYC hipster that was using it as a flower pot stand. She lost interest in the Graflex No.1 conversion and sold it to me for $20.00. And if you don't mind my venting, what is with the frenzy buying and butchering of the Konica 40mm f/1.8 pancake Hexanon lens. DIGITAL PEOPLE if you are not able to skillfully convert a lens and save the pieces to convert back to original then don't. This is a great little auto lens when fitted onto a Konica SLR. After all is done these conversions will be tossed into a trash can and will be lost forever to vintage users like myself. Thank you for letting me get that off my chest. The wife doesn't like to listen to me when it's about cameras.
 
I use the cameras. If I do not use a camera I sell it or give it to someone who will use it.
 

I think it's part of that steampunk nonsense.
 
Lamps made this way will smoke and burn, these materials, like bellows, leatherette and paint, won't tolerate the heat.
And if it's wasteful or not - I guess one can buy a lamp for spare parts now, right?
 
q_x said:
Lamps made this way will smoke and burn, these materials, like bellows, leatherette and paint, won't tolerate the heat.
And if it's wasteful or not - I guess one can buy a lamp for spare parts now, right?
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Compact florescents or LED lights would work - though I prefer analog light sources in my house

They are "neet," but I have to wonder; converting a camera into a lamp is mostly a display piece with some functionality - so why not just display it if they are not going to give it away to someone.
 

As I mentioned, it's part of that steampunk balderdash. It's "hip" to "repurpose" things too, I hear.
 
I have a few bulb flashes I'd like to do something like this with. But the cameras as lamps just seem weird to me. I suppose they are better than the ones with clock inserts stuffed in them though.
 
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