What's your latest new old camera ? (Part 2)

AndyH · May 7, 2020

Nikon F body with FTn finder. Great condition with functional meter for seventy bucks. Great eBay seller!

Kino · May 7, 2020

AndyH said:
Nikon F body with FTn finder. Great condition with functional meter for seventy bucks. Great eBay seller!

Nice! I have two myself; one too nice to touch and one to shoot with!

Kino · May 7, 2020

A nice Konica III.

jwd722 · May 7, 2020

awty said:
Black f2 to go with the black f.
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Love the brassing!

Someonenameddavid · May 8, 2020

KPtheamateur said:
Here's little puzzle. I've been going through a bag of old cameras my grandpa had that have been passed on to me as the family nerd. Some interesting if mostly knackered old cameras, but here's a working one with no maker's mark. The case it was in says 'Made in Germany' on it, and the lens fit is M42, but apart from that, no clue. Any detectives here?
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Praktica Nova

pbromaghin · May 8, 2020

Donald Qualls said:
Actually, the cameras I mentioned are the ones that I have to verify that the lens is parallel to the film even after the bed/door is fully locked out. My Daiichi Zenobia and Balda Jubilette are the worst for this.

I've been playing around with it and have found that, once the brackets are clicked in place, the lens is solidly held and immovable. As soon as they are loosened, as in my original picture, it will swing around the horizontal axis as freely as the bellows will allow.

AndyH · May 8, 2020

KPtheamateur said:
Here's little puzzle. I've been going through a bag of old cameras my grandpa had that have been passed on to me as the family nerd. Some interesting if mostly knackered old cameras, but here's a working one with no maker's mark. The case it was in says 'Made in Germany' on it, and the lens fit is M42, but apart from that, no clue. Any detectives here?
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That was my first SLR. Rebuilt, from Altman in Chicago for $49.95. Top shutter speed of 1/500 and you could scare wildlife off at several hundred feet!

Andy

awty · May 9, 2020

jwd722 said:
Love the brassing!

I do to, prefer cameras that have been preloved.
Fixed the F2 ping and it works well again.

Donald Qualls · May 9, 2020

pbromaghin said:
I've been playing around with it and have found that, once the brackets are clicked in place, the lens is solidly held and immovable. As soon as they are loosened, as in my original picture, it will swing around the horizontal axis as freely as the bellows will allow.

Yes, and I woudn't actually expect a Bessa to give trouble with the "snapping into place" maneuver, but some less expensive folders did have that problem due to a simpler mechanism for opening deploying and retaining the lens board.

WD4AON · May 18, 2020

David A. Goldfarb said:
This thread has been so popular, the old one is broken, so let's start a new one.

What's your latest new old camera?

Newest old camera? Rollei 16 - Carl Zeiss Tessar 2.8/28. Agfa Optima 6000 110 just before that.
Terry

Europan · May 19, 2020

An Armor 8 C purely for studying purposes, one of the cheapest European 8mm cameras, if not the cheapest. Even the Bencini Comet 8 has an injection molded frame. The Armor has a body made from sheet metal, an aluminium grave as the saying goes here. But my interest is focused on the reflex finder it has because that was the second reflex 8mm camera. The first was the Ercsam Camex 8 Reflex.

John Bragg · May 19, 2020

Canon Sureshot Supreme. My second functioning one. I had 2 but my original £3 charity store one died. Now back to strength with one and a spare.

Plastic Fantastic by E.J. Bragg, on Flickr

RLangham · May 26, 2020

I'm about to make some people a little jealous... I just bought a black Nikon F2AS or whatever ithe F2 is called when it's with the uncommon DP-3 finder... it had a broken zoom lens with it, but combined with my Nikkor-S Auto 5c/f2 it's a pro grade powerhouse.

The accuracy of this meter is startling. It judges the most like I would judge manually out of any camera I've used save for my SR-T. It's also the first mechanical SLR I've ever owned with speeds below 1 second, and only the third with a removable finder. I like this so much more than my Nikkormat.

EDIT: I see that that's actually a later version with an auto-indexing finder. What I meant to say was F2SB.

Jon Shumpert · May 26, 2020

I bought a nice Minolta XD11 with 50mm f1.4 lens a few weeks ago. I am fortunate to have a camera repair tech living just a few miles from me. He checked out the meter and the shutter speeds and says the camera is in very good condition. My latest before that was a Minolta X-700. I mainly have Nikon equipment, but couldn't pass up either of the Minolta's. I currently have a roll of T-max 100 in the X-700.

scyg · May 26, 2020

Early 8x10" Agfa-Ansco Universal View, currently being restored.

WD4AON · Jun 27, 2020

WD4AON said:
Newest old camera? Rollei 16 - Carl Zeiss Tessar 2.8/28. Agfa Optima 6000 110 just before that.
Terry

20200627
Anxiously awaiting arrival from Poland of a used Pentacon K16 with a cartridge. I plan to reload the cartridge with ORWO UN54+, but if it absolutely requires the central perforation to operate the shutter, I will amend my 110 perf'ing scheme to punch the central hole so I can use it. These were actually pretty well built p&S shooters of the 110 ilk, though they wouldn't take 110 film cartridges.
Terry

nbagno · Jun 27, 2020

I was just gifted a Toyo 810Gii along with 14 8x10 film holders, 4x5 reducing back, and 3 boxes of film. :-O

Donald Qualls · Jun 27, 2020

WD4AON said:
20200627
Anxiously awaiting arrival from Poland of a used Pentacon K16 with a cartridge. I plan to reload the cartridge with ORWO UN54+, but if it absolutely requires the central perforation to operate the shutter, I will amend my 110 perf'ing scheme to punch the central hole so I can use it. These were actually pretty well built p&S shooters of the 110 ilk, though they wouldn't take 110 film cartridges.
Terry

Wow! Center perforation (presumed between frames)? Like the Pathe 9.5mm movie film, then? Can't offhand think of any reason they'd build for that if it wasn't critical to operation. In Pathe cine film, the film is advanced, both in camera and projector, by a hook that goes into the center perf.

My latest new old camera is my second Kiev 4, a 1971 model to act as backup for the 1973 unit that started me on this. Eventually, I'll start hunting for a bargain on a good-working Contax II/III/IIa/IIIa body (that I can get serviced, instead of everyone I ask saying no, we don't work on those). Can't use my Jupiter 12 on the a models, but that's a question for this fall or next year at tax time.

jay moussy · Jul 2, 2020

Konica Autoreflex A (1st gen) with its Hexanon 52mm 1.8, and a companion Vivitar 200mm 3.5 lens

Estate sale, silly excuse for buying it: I could not get myself to leave it behind.
Very clean.
Heavy, you got something REAL your hands.
Noisiest shutter I even heard!

It got me to learn a few things about Konica, not a bad thing.

flavio81 · Jul 14, 2020

RLangham said:
EDIT: I see that that's actually a later version with an auto-indexing finder. What I meant to say was F2SB.

You're very fortunate. The F2SB is even rarer and in my opinion a better choice than the F2AS.

I owned the AS now i have the SB.

RLangham · Jul 14, 2020

flavio81 said:
You're very fortunate. The F2SB is even rarer and in my opinion a better choice than the F2AS.

I owned the AS now i have the SB.

It cost 100 dollars more than most models would've. I feel like it was worth it.

flavio81 · Jul 14, 2020

RLangham said:
It cost 100 dollars more than most models would've. I feel like it was worth it.

Of course, and the advantages are:

- Meter coupling with pre-AI lenses AND AI lenses too
- Clear, illuminated display of the f-stop within the viewfinder (the aperture direct readout window of the F2A and F2AS depends on outside illumination)

RLangham · Jul 14, 2020

flavio81 said:
Of course, and the advantages are:

- Meter coupling with pre-AI lenses AND AI lenses too
- Clear, illuminated display of the f-stop within the viewfinder (the aperture direct readout window of the F2A and F2AS depends on outside illumination)

Wait, so those didn't have the LED that backlights the display when you press the switch?

flavio81 · Jul 14, 2020

RLangham said:
ait, so those didn't have the LED that backlights the display when you press the switch?

The F2AS illuminates the shutter speed display, and the meter display is a bright red LED. However the aperture display is optically shown from the aperture ring, so it relies on ambient light. No illumination of it at night!!

The F2SB illuminates shutter speed AND aperture.

R.Gould · Jul 14, 2020

Mamiya m645 1000s, with 80mm 1.9 lens, 45,150,and 500mm lens, metering prism,spare 120 insert, and a few other bits and pieces for £250 GBP,all in the Mamiya fitted case, fully serviced and guaranteed for six months,

What's your latest new old camera ? (Part 2)

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