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

[E. von Hoegh]

Another Pentax IQZoom Ezy, from the free pile at a yardsale. With a good lithium cell.

 

[John_Nikon_F]

A $35 F2 body that was missing the finder, screen, back, O-C key, and battery chamber cap. Turns out it's in better shape than my backup F2AS, so all the parts from that body have been moved over to this one, before it gets sent to Sover for servicing.

-J

 

[fstop]

I just took posession of a Minolta XD7/11 for use with my Rokkor lenses.

It's a marvellous little machine with excellent mechanics and electronics. It exudes a feel of quality and sophistication when you handle it.

The light metering matches a handheld reflective meter and the stepless blade shutter ensures very precise exposures.

If I could only have one analogue camera, this would be it.

Out of all the mid /late 70s 35mm SLR cameras out there, the XD11 and its counterparts are among the top bodies ever made.If the XD11 had a higher top shutter speed and motor drive capability the other 35mm SLR makers would have gone out of business.

 

[John_Nikon_F]

^Think that'd be called the Leica R7... Same basic camera, however, with different lens mount and european electronics, but it did get a 1/2000 top shutter speed, and, the Leica versions of the XD cameras always had motor drives available.

-J

 

[Ricardo Miranda]

Shot a roll of film yesterday with an EM that I purchased a while ago and have never used. It's in like-new condition and has not a single indicator that it's ever been out of the case. I really like these little cameras.

Congratulations! Enjoy your EM.

 

[Jaf-Photo]

Out of all the mid /late 70s 35mm SLR cameras out there, the XD11 and its counterparts are among the top bodies ever made.If the XD11 had a higher top shutter speed and motor drive capability the other 35mm SLR makers would have gone out of business.

Yeah. The later Minolta AF 35mm cameras had a max shutter speed of 1/8000, but 1/1000 works quite well if you use films of various speeds.

Minolta is a better proposition for me than Leica because I am very fond of my Rokkor lenses.

 

[fstop]

^Think that'd be called the Leica R7... Same basic camera, however, with different lens mount and european electronics, but it did get a 1/2000 top shutter speed, and, the Leica versions of the XD cameras always had motor drives available.

-J

Actually R5 and I have one.

 

[John_Nikon_F]

Yeah, I know. Last version based on the XD chassis is the R7, of course.

-J

 

[eyesage]

My "new" F2 just arrived today to replace the one I shouldn't have sold years ago.



All my lenses are AF, but that will eventually change. I just ordered a 28mm f/3.5 for it. Now I better start selling a few things too. The wife is pretty forgiving of my little purchases but everyone has their limits.

- Joe

 

[mjs]

From a yard sale this morning, the favorite would have to be the Minolta SRT-101 with the 50mm f/1.7 lens. The mirror is a bit dirty and the shutter slow but it has working batteries and meter! Real close behind would be the Olympus Stylus Epic DLX, new in box although the case was missing from the box. Fortunately they had a box full of cases and I got a LowePro that fits it like it was made for it.

Total expense for both cameras and the case: $0.75. And everything works!

Mike

 

[snapguy]

new and new

I had this olde Kodak 35 rangefinder camera, circa 1946, but a part was missing from the top of the lens mount. Today my USPS guy delivered not one but two new, to me, Kodak 35s. They were sold for parts but are in better shape than my "old" camera and all the parts are there. I am in heaven. The camera was MickeyMoused together because Kodak couldn't get shutters and lenses from Germany and they are ugly as sin. But I love 'em anyway like a homely but faithful hounddog.

 

[daswiggles]

At an estate sale yesterday, I found a really clean Canon A-1 (no brassing/dents/ anything) with the manual and the FD 50mm 1.8 with the original World Cup 1982 box and packaging for $45 total. Today I found a Pentax K1000 with the 50mm 1.7 and a Canon EOS 650 with the metal-mount 50mm 1.8 and 300EZ Speedlite for a total of $10.

 

[Someonenameddavid]

I had this olde Kodak 35 rangefinder camera, circa 1946, but a part was missing from the top of the lens mount. Today my USPS guy delivered not one but two new, to me, Kodak 35s. They were sold for parts but are in better shape than my "old" camera and all the parts are there. I am in heaven. The camera was MickeyMoused together because Kodak couldn't get shutters and lenses from Germany and they are ugly as sin. But I love 'em anyway like a homely but faithful hounddog.

Well you might say that was the style. If you look at the Kodak Ektra of 1940, you will notice a family resemblance, and that was made with all the design money they could muster and avoiding Zeiss and Leica patents... it was a very expensive dog, but had a longer rangefinder base than the Contax II. Like the Bell and Howell Foton it was heavy and over engineered and ergonomically poor. I have both of them and I love them.

David

 

[Les Sarile]

The younger sibling of the original Asahi Pentax designated the "K"

 

[TheToadMen]

Polaroid Big Shot camera, can still use FP-100C Fuji film.

 

[Les Sarile]

The addition of the Minolta Multi Function Back and motor drive really makes the X-700 my most modern old camera.

 

[Taslim Abdani]

I was getting my Konica Hexar AF out of the repair shop when I noticed a lovely Kine Exakta for sale on the shelf. I purchased it at a very reasonable price. It is a VX model from 1955.

 

[Uncle Bill]

In a fit of GAS I picked up a heavy user black Canon FTbn off Ebay yesterday with a FD 50 f1.4 SSC lens. I plan to keep the body and gift the lens to my brother because I already have three FD 50 F1.4s: a chrome nose, a SSC and the most recent version.

 

[donkee]

I picked up a Bell & Howell Canon Canonet 19 from the thrift store yesterday.

The last few weeks have been the "Canon Weeks"

Last weekend I picked up the Canon VI-T, Canonet QL17 (1965 model), and now the B&H Canonet 19.

Maybe the camera gods are telling me to move to Canon rangefinders.

 

[Drew B.]

Just took possession of a lightly used F100. Very nice camera...

 

[FrancoisM]

Found a Kodak Jiffy Six-16 from 1934. Now waiting for some extenders so I can fit a 120 roll in it.
6cm x 11cm negatives should be intersting

 

[Les Sarile]

The Olympus OM4Ti + F280 flash combination can sync at all speeds up to 1/2000.

 

[Steve Smith]

Today I bought a Polaroid ProPack camera with the flash for £8.

It came with some 667 film dated 1994 which as expected, didn't work.

I haven't decided what to do with it yet.


Steve.

 

[Toffle]

From a friend's father's estate, two Mamiya C330s with multiple lenses, two Nikkormats, two Nikon-F (I think, they look like Fs, but don't have any visible model ID), and one Rolleiflex 3.5f with prism and multiple accessories. Also, several lenses, many filters, a few light meters and a bunch of darkroom gear. All for the cost of a handshake. An embarrassment of riches, to be sure.

 

[agphotography]

You guys and your garage sale finds... I don't understand why it's so difficult to find stuff here in California! Seriously if I ever do actually come across an SLR of any vintage at a yard sale they'll usually ask something crazy like $200 for a Canon AE-1 that looks like it's sat in dirt for the last 20 years. I don't get it, must be all these reality TV shows on bargain hunting and what not.

Otherwise, I put together a plain-prism F2 that I'm happy with, has a few dents but I don't care, it's a great user and I really like shooting with it.