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

[shutterboy]

Hasselblad 501cm with 80mm CB and A12 back

 

[Charles Wass]

A Canon TL with FL50mm F/1.8 from a highly rated seller in Latvia! It is in good condition and fully working, though I had to replace the seals as usual. I still have to develop the first film.

 

[TheToadMen]

I picked up a Nikon F4s and it is like new! I had one before, but it died on me. So I'm very happy to be able to use a F4s again. It is a heavy and bulky camera. But it handles well and I love the design of this camera.
So, this camera will accompany me on my holiday to Denmark this summer with several rolls of Fomapan 100 and Ilford FP4+, maybe one or two rolls of Fuji NPH400.
Just one more problem: what lens to choose for this camera? Maybe just one: a Nikon 35 mm or a Sigma 20 mm??
I'll sleep on it...

 

[MattKrull]

I'm trying to not become a half-way house for unloved cameras. But someone was threatening to throw out a Yashica TL-Electro. And since they threw in a brand new Gralab timer, I figured what the heck.

On the down side, it's dirty, missing the shutter speed dial plate, and the 50mm lens needs a regreasing badly.
On the plus side, it uses the 6v batteries (so no paying through the nose for mercury replacement cells), is fully mechanical so no worries about batteries at all, and came with a 135mm F2.8.

I'm going to regrease the lens and try to do a general tidy up of the body (maybe make a replacement dial plate). I'm trying to stick to only one lens mount (OM), but M42 has always interested me for some reason I can't fathom. So once I've practiced some basic camera repair I'll either find a home for it with a student, or I'll keep it as a way to test and play with M42 glass. My wife will be rather upset with me if I do the latter. Heck, she may be irritated I took it home at all.

Of all the vices available to me, at least old cameras are cheap (so long as I stay away from the pricey-red-dot).

 

[Copyhat]

I picked up a Nikon F4s and it is like new! I had one before, but it died on me. So I'm very happy to be able to use a F4s again. It is a heavy and bulky camera. But it handles well and I love the design of this camera.
So, this camera will accompany me on my holiday to Denmark this summer with several rolls of Fomapan 100 and Ilford FP4+, maybe one or two rolls of Fuji NPH400.
Just one more problem: what lens to choose for this camera? Maybe just one: a Nikon 35 mm or a Sigma 20 mm??
I'll sleep on it...

The F4 is a solid piece of gear - I like mine a lot!

Where are you going to? Fanø, Blåvand, Gilleleje and Skagen seems to be popular places for tourists in the summer. Maybe we can join up and shoot F4's together?

 

[andrew.roos]

I have a Zeiss Ikon Contina II foldet on loan from a friend, with an option to purchase. But, to be honest, I'm finding the uncoupled rangefinder (totally separate from the viewfinder) quite a pain. Compose, find range, focus, recompose, cock shutter, shoot. Still I'll shoot a roll or two and see how I like the results from the 45mm f/2.8 Tessar before I make up my mind.

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[Knjy]

My purchase was a Contax ll that turned out to have a broken first curtain spring. I expect to get the shutter crate back from Kiev this weekend with a replacement spring only harvested from a Kiev 4. Before this, I bought another Contax ll that was complete with a collapsible Sonnar. Bought for the lens only the camera has turned out rather nice, and although well worn inside is now fully working, after I cleaned & serviced it, fitted new ribbons and is in fair cosmetic condition. I used this second example to practice servicing in readiness for the first which is cosmetically excellent. I may keep both.
The show stopper in this tale is a text message I received from my wife who is visiting friends on South Africa. She found a Contarex complete with lens in an Antiques shop in Delmas. I have no other information other than "It's really heavy, the shutter fires and the lens turns". Unable to contact me right awayshe bought it anyway

 

[Sirius Glass]

Hasselblad 501cm with 80mm CB and A12 back

Excellent!

 

[Xmas]

My purchase was a Contax ll that ...
The show stopper in this tale is a text message I received from my wife who is visiting friends on South Africa. She found a Contarex complete with lens in an Antiques shop in Delmas. I have no other information other than "It's really heavy, the shutter fires and the lens turns". Unable to contact me right awayshe bought it anyway

Send photos of any of wifes sisters...

 

[Sirius Glass]

My purchase was a Contax ll that turned out to have a broken first curtain spring. I expect to get the shutter crate back from Kiev this weekend with a replacement spring only harvested from a Kiev 4. Before this, I bought another Contax ll that was complete with a collapsible Sonnar. Bought for the lens only the camera has turned out rather nice, and although well worn inside is now fully working, after I cleaned & serviced it, fitted new ribbons and is in fair cosmetic condition. I used this second example to practice servicing in readiness for the first which is cosmetically excellent. I may keep both.
The show stopper in this tale is a text message I received from my wife who is visiting friends on South Africa. She found a Contarex complete with lens in an Antiques shop in Delmas. I have no other information other than "It's really heavy, the shutter fires and the lens turns". Unable to contact me right away she bought it anyway

She sounds like my girlfriend.

 

[one90guy]

Finally found a great Nikon F4s to replaced the one I sold several years ago. I do not even remember what I just had to have that made me sell it Learned my lesson, hopefully.

 

[frank]

I love my F4s. It's a confidence-inspiring camera.

 

[Ralph Javins]

An "Older" 35mm SLR Camera with a Trend Establishing Heritage and some History

Good morning;

Many might say that I am going backwards.

An early Ihagee Kamerawerke, Dresden, East Germany (DDR), EXAKTA VX-1000 with a Meyer-Optik, Görlitz, DDR, Domiplan 50mm f:2.8 lens, has come to live here with all the other cameras. And this camera came with some of its own personal history, in addition to the trend establishing form and heritage set by its grand-father, the KINE-EXAKTA back in 1936.

This particular camera had been given to a then young man while he was still in school back in the late 1950s by his father. It replaced a 120 or 620 roll film camera that the fellow had been using photographing plants while studying agronomy in school, but the school had classroom projectors only for 35mm slides, so he needed another camera. His father gave him this EXAKTA VX-1000. Just a few years ago, the gentleman gave the camera to the young man who had become his son-in-law, but the camera did not work very well by that time. The son-in-law has passed it on to me, knowing of my liking for film and older cameras. Now it will go to one of the remaining EXAKTA qualified camera technicians for a CLA to restore the very slow and not-quite-reaching-all-the-way-across-the-frame opening curtain on the focal plane shutter.

It is nice to have an older camera that has both a technical history due to its design and heritage, but there is also some real personal history associated with this specific camera. That makes it very interesting.

 

[TheToadMen]

When you've got the Exakta serviced and working again, take a nice portrait of the young man that hold on to it for over 60 yrears.

Bert from Holland
http://thetoadmen.blogspot.nl

 

[Ralph Javins]

Good morning, Bert;

I would love to be able to do something like that, and, if it were possible, I would travel back across the United States to Pennsylvania to take that photograph with that gentleman who had become venerable. Yes, keeping an EXAKTA VX-1000 for 60 years is remarkable. Unfortunately, he died one year ago on 2013 April 01. Now I cannot thank him for keeping the EXAKTA VX-1000 intact for all those years.

 

[TheToadMen]

Hi Ralph,
I'm sorry to hear that. But at least you can honor his memory by keeping his camera in good condition, give it a good use and pass it on to your grandchildren in due time with a great history to go with it.
And if his wife is still alive, you might send her a picture you made with the camera as a thank you.
Anyway, enjoy your camera!!
Bert

 

[TheToadMen]

The F4 is a solid piece of gear - I like mine a lot!

Where are you going to? Fanø, Blåvand, Gilleleje and Skagen seems to be popular places for tourists in the summer. Maybe we can join up and shoot F4's together?

Hi Søren,
We're going to the isle of Funen. Is that near your place? I have to check in what town our house will be. See also my thread about visiting Denmark: (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
We wanted something close to the sea. But as someone pointed out, anywhere in Denmark you are within 50 km from the sea.
An interesting country it must be!!
Bert from Holland

 

[Kyle M.]

Just bought a beautiful Nikon F2 Photomic with Nikkor-S 50mm F=1.4, and Nikkor-Q 135mm F=3.5 lenses. I like it so much that my F3HP is now on permanent loan to a close friend.

 

[Copyhat]

Hi Søren,
We're going to the isle of Funen. Is that near your place? I have to check in what town our house will be. See also my thread about visiting Denmark: (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
We wanted something close to the sea. But as someone pointed out, anywhere in Denmark you are within 50 km from the sea.
An interesting country it must be!!
Bert from Holland

I live about 100 km from the western end of Fuhnen, but will be close by in my holiday as my Grandfather's yacht is located in Kolding.

Indeed very interesting, hit me up on my mail where on the island you are staying: sorenhammer@msn.com

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[fstop]

In response to the Canon thread and its material questions I grabbed a Canon AE-1 Program.Intially I was going to by junk bodies but decided that since I have a few lenses I would get a good user and shoot some film with it.

 

[Peltigera]

A Balda Jubilette - 35 mm camera from very late 1930s. It has the focus scale in metres and no 'Made in Germany' so will be a late import to the UK (possibly a war-time acquisition by a British soldier in Germany in 1944/5?).

It has a Baltar lens - anyone any idea who made these for Balda?

 

[dynachrome]

A chrome Konica FT-1 with a non-working batter holder/grip.

 

[Red Tractors]

G.A.S. is a horrible thing.

I did it again, despite the fact that I have two clean Nikon FM's (Chrome) and a black FE I drifted back to e-bay and bought a black FM last night.

 

[MattKrull]

G.A.S. is a horrible thing.

I did it again, despite the fact that I have two clean Nikon FM's (Chrome) and a black FE I drifted back to e-bay and bought a black FM last night.

I totally understand getting something you don't currently have. I even understand getting a backup of something you have an love. But why buy a third example of a camera? (Not trolling, honest question)

 

[Truzi]

I totally understand getting something you don't currently have. I even understand getting a backup of something you have an love. But why buy a third example of a camera? (Not trolling, honest question)

I can't speak for anyone else, but for me it's parts. So long as the third, forth, etc. are cheap enough, I can be sure of having repair parts for a long time.