What's your latest new old camera? (Part 1)

Peltigera · Mar 7, 2014

My newest old camera is not 35mm. It is a Voigtlander Vitoret 110 - and I have found a source of 110 cartridges for it - one is loaded at the moment and I am half way through the 24 exposures.

dosilverhalide · Mar 9, 2014

Not a camera, but a Pentax Lightmeter V at the flea market for 10 dollars. New batteries and it fired right up, and very accurate. KEH has a bargain one for 199.00 usd. J, yea

dosilverhalide · Mar 12, 2014

Got a Minolta SRT 101 for 5.00 usd plus tax today. Very good condition and the light meter works. I'm really trying to cut down on GAS.

Mr_Flibble · Mar 12, 2014

My lastest 35mm camera buys? Uhm....
I bought a black Leica II (1932) from a friend
And I was given a broken Robot II that I have had restored and bought a lens and cartridges for.

Ap507b · Mar 14, 2014

A Nikon F4 to add to my collection.

Lamar · Mar 14, 2014

A Nikon F manufactured in late 1971 with standard type 5 prism and a 35mm f/2.8 Nikkor-S.

dandij · Mar 15, 2014

Minolta SRT 202, 45mm f/2, 135mm f/2.8, 80-200mm f/3.5.
Going to shoot some film again after many years. Also continue with digital.
Dan

Charles Wass · Mar 17, 2014

This morning I bought a Rollei 3.5F at a very good price from a local pawn shop complete, surprisingly, with a one year warranty. It seems to be working perfectly, but I still have to develop the roll that I have just put through it. Since it is around 25 years since I owned one I had forgotten what a pleasure it is to use the camera.

R.Gould · Mar 17, 2014

I was given a Canon sureshot yesterday by someone who has gone digital

MattKrull · Mar 19, 2014

I just picked up an OM-2sp off that nameless auction site.
I had one before, but the light meter was toast. This one promises to be perfect. I hope so. While I don't dislike the OM10 I use as a second body, I much perferred the feel of the 2sp.

agphotography · Mar 19, 2014

Lamar said:
A Nikon F manufactured in late 1971 with standard type 5 prism and a 35mm f/2.8 Nikkor-S.

That sounds identical to the Nikon F I picked up a few months ago. I love this machine.

Trojan_Llama · Mar 19, 2014

I actually bought it several months ago at a car boot sale for six quid (GBP £6), but I ran test film, and was convinced that the bellows were perished, although I goofed with not enough developer stock in the tank. An Agfa Isolette I. Circa 1954, not particularly high quality lens, the budget of it's stable, but hey, a good condition folding medium format camera. I recently thought I'd give it another chance, and was surprised to find that the bellows were fine. Now it's replaced a Lubitel as my back up medium format camera to my Bronica SQ-A. Hey - it fits in a jacket pocket, and it's medium format. Great condition, pocketable 120. Certainly get's the looks on the street.

I was recently asked to sign a street petition, and to have my photo captured on an Iphone as I did so. I agreed, if they also took my photo with my camera. Imagine their eyes when the camera unfolded...

Other than that, last purchase was of a mint Olympus XA2 with A11 flash unit, in it's Olympus jewellry style case, from a charity shop for £6 again. Already had an XA2, but it was so pretty in that case.

TheToadMen · Mar 19, 2014

Next week I will get a Nikon F4s. Mine died some time ago, so I looked for a new one. I love to use this camera (look & feel).
I hope it is in good working order, as promised.

Red Tractors · Mar 20, 2014

Today I bought a working Nikon FM just to get the 50mm F:1.8 series E. It's newer and cleaner than my current FM!

Took the broken 50/F:2.0 out to swap over the skyliight filter and found the problem, So today I went from zero working Nikon 50mm's to two.

alexfoto · Mar 20, 2014

-Yesterday morning i bought a Leica R4s with Elmarit 35mm f2,8III and motor drive R4, trade with a nikon 85 1,8d.
-I have in the past R3 and i am sad i sale, always i remember those filling when i pick up the camera to my eyes! Many camera past from me but no one can give the solid filling of a leica, a hand made excellence, even if you tern a knob you understand is something deferent.
-I shoot a roll in the city and i develop to check and all is fine. Then i scan to see the quality that i miss all this years.. what a tonality and 3d look.. perfect balance of sharpness, not over corrected as japan lens with hards out of focus. I have now to find a good deal for a 60mm 2,8 makro, i have this in the past and is the best macro that i try.

John_Nikon_F · Mar 20, 2014

I know I'm going to catch he-double hockey sticks for this, but, let's see here...

After the chrome F FTn, scored another late F, this time a black one with MD plate, a lens, bunch of filters, etc, for $88.66, plus ship (sold the chrome F to Ralph). Then, came four F2 bodies (three black bodies, one chrome - two of the black bodies got rehomed, along with the chrome body, the third black body is my backup F2 and was the second most expensive of the three, at $102.50, plus shipping - sold my F5 to cover it and a second MD-2/MB-1 drive combo), a Nikomat FT2 I owned earlier in 2013, a black Nikomat FTn that promptly had to be replaced after it was dropped at the post office and suffered damage as I was walking out the door with the box in my hands (so make that two black FTn's), a couple black Nikkormat FT2's, one of which became parts, and the other has become what the Nikomat FTn should've been in 1967-74 (same as an FTn, but using PX76 batteries), and a couple FM2n's. Once I've paid Sean, I will let the less-nice FM2n go, even though it doesn't have a notched film gate where the shutter is.

So, yes, I continued to buy bodies. Am I remorseful about it? Nope. Do I care that I went against what I said earlier? Nah. It's NAS. I got it.

-J

pramaglia · Mar 21, 2014

Here's my new/old Edinex 35mm. It loads from the bottom like a Leica.

kb3lms · Mar 21, 2014

Minolta Hi-Matic F, enjoying very much so far on the first roll.

Uncle Bill · Mar 21, 2014

I have a new Canon F-1 with the AE Prism waiting for me at the post office.

Whiteymorange · Mar 22, 2014

kb3lms said:
Minolta Hi-Matic F, enjoying very much so far on the first roll.

My very first 35mm camera, bought new in the mid 70's. I loved it and have purchased 3 or 4 more over the years, all of which had the same problem. The black wire in the battery compartment gets corroded. They used acid flux. Sometimes it can be soldered back together at the battery contact, sometimes it's the other end, requiring a complete disassembly.

Whiteymorange · Mar 22, 2014

I just came into a Nue-View 4x5 "Frankenstein" camera fitted with a large Darlot Petzval lens, a packard shutter and an odd, home-made back that rotates, allowing either a 2x3 ground glass or a roll-film holder for the same format to be centered. Fortunately, in the suitcase that housed the thing, I found the regular back as well and a lens labeled "Kodak Anastigmat, Taylor, Taylor and Hobson" in a Compound dial-set shutter. New one on me.

Altogether an odd beast. Taking some trial shots this weekend.

TheToadMen · Mar 22, 2014

Whiteymorange said:
I just came into a Nue-View 4x5 "Frankenstein" camera fitted with a large Darlot Petzval lens, a packard shutter and an odd, home-made back that rotates, allowing either a 2x3 ground glass or a roll-film holder for the same format to be centered. Fortunately, in the suitcase that housed the thing, I found the regular back as well and a lens labeled "Kodak Anastigmat, Taylor, Taylor and Hobson" in a Compound dial-set shutter. New one on me.

Altogether an odd beast. Taking some trial shots this weekend.

Wonder what it looks like ... could you post an image?

chip j · Mar 22, 2014

Contaflex III w/50 & 85.

Whiteymorange · Mar 23, 2014

Wonder what it looks like ... could you post an image?

Copyhat · Mar 24, 2014

A local second hand shop had acquired this baby from a deceased professional, along with the 20-35 2.8 and 80-200 2.8. Bought the 20-35 last month and the F5 with the 80-200 today after some thinking. It weighs the same as my F4s and included two NI-MH batteries and a charger but they are out of useful life. The F5 is battered but still in perfectly good order, a perfect companion to the F4 in every way; one can take all the old Nikkors and matrix meter with them and the other is a beast with AF and custom program codes.

What's your latest new old camera? (Part 1)

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