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

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Yes, it will need light seals. I've replaced about 20 sets of them myself.

The mirror box foam is probably either gone or will crumble when you touch it.
 

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I picked up a Kodak Retina IIA with stiff focus and dim rangefinder. Paul Barden did a fine job servicing it with a very quick turnaround time. Just finished my second roll of film with it, so far it's been a joy to use. Fits in my shirt pocket!
 

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Bought a Nikon F90X. Do I need it? No, but it was cheap, in good condition and I have read good things about it. And I have plenty of Nikon lenses it can use so I think it will fit right in.
 

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Konica A, in really good shape, still has the passed sticker on it, Meter works, maybe a 1/2 stop off from my Gossen SCB.
 

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I just bought what should be my last camera. A Kodak 4A Speed with a working focal plane shutter and it is in beautiful condition.

Doug
 

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Leica iiif with a 5cm Elmar. Lens and camera made in '46, was originally a iiic then converted to f.
 

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I don't know if this counts, but my 1967-dated M4 (bought in 2017) is on it's way back to me from a DAG refresh and update, so I think of it being a new-ish, recent, old camera.
 

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A friend was at a garage sale and sent me a list and photo of what he found and asked if I wanted it. Sure. So I now have a Minolta X-570, 35-70mm zoom, 50 mm, 70-200 zoom, tele-converter, flash, cases for all, a bag, filters, manuals, straps, and 10 rolls of film, all C-41 Fuji and Kodak of various speeds. The camera has a new battery and appears to work. All for $55.
 

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Wow the thumbnails really did not do those shots justice. Excellent.
 

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This arrived about an hour ago. It's an early 1950's vintage Agfa Jsolette. It has the typical frozen focus ring but the bellows look to be in decent shape. The camera is rough otherwise though and the shutter mechanism does not work. The remote linkage is jammed and corroded. I'll have the lens front section soaking in alcohol shortly and will work on figuring out if the shutter mechanism can be restored.
 

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I am expecting my latest - a "well used" Cambo Wide 650 (65mm lens) to arrive in a week or so from the Netherlands.
 

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Cute camera. It has been one of my grandad's, quite surely his last. When a kid, I took a photography course at school and the teacher prompted us pupils to carry at school whichever camera we had and discuss if it was still usable. I then took the chance to take pictures with it; I couldn't believe that 120 rollfilm hadn't changed much over the years and was still available. Can't believe either that it's still available in 2024!
 

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I really wish I had one of the old cameras that my family had back in the 1930s through 1960s. I have the old photos and some look to be 120 contact prints. I have no idea where the cameras went over the decades, and nobody in the extended family has any notion of what became of them.

On the Jsolette above, it's now almost fully functional. The lens was able to be unfrozen with very little effort. It's the easiest Jsolette lens I've seen in terms of freeing up the green grease turned glue. The shutter mechanism is a thing of beauty on this camera. It too, was stuck from old oil having glued it into a single spot. After disassembly, I ended up soaking the whole shutter mechanism in a jar of acetone for a few minutes. The acetone turned brown, so I rinsed it in clean acetone and let it dry over night. All it needed past that was a bit of lube and it was working well again. There may be a further adjustment needed as if you cock the shutter fully, it sticks after the shutter release is pressed. Then, you just nudge the cocking arm and it fires normally. I'm still trying to figure out the self timer on this camera. But, it's working again. It was an easy project for a $13 camera. Once everything is sorted, this one will be gifted to one of my son's who is wanting to explore medium format.
 

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That might be indeed a nice subject for another thread! I also ignore most things about the cameras used by my family. Aside the mentioned Isolette, I know that my mother had a Ferrania Rondine (now in the hands of a cousin of mine) and later an Agfamatic Sensor. Both were very simple cameras. However, I'm sure they had others, about which I know nothing.

Congrats for the nice work done on your Isolette, it seems like it's ready to take pictures again! The shutter lever sticking if overcocked makes me think that you might have accidentally found the self-shutter, as with Compur shutters that's approximately what you should do (enable the shutter lever to be overcocked by moving a button, by doing so a secondary time delayer is engaged).
 

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My brother-in-law fixed up this Rollei 35 (found at my grandmother's house) which had shutter issues.



Unfortunately, when he replaced the top-cover he must have replaced the rewind lever the wrong way around, causing me to shoot the first roll with the mechanism in the rewind position. I eventually realized the sprocket wheel was turning free but not before shooting some memorable multiple exposures:





Anyway, great little camera. The frame counter is somewhat temperamental because it's built into the bottom of the camera back where it has trouble interfacing with the little tooth that's supposed to advance it. The repair manual says to bend the limb with the tooth on it up, but what fixed it for me was bending the sides of the camera back inwards and making sure you slam the back all the way home when you put it on. So much for the famed narrow tolerances of German engineering

The controls are odd at first, all the numbers facing up 90° from the front of the camera (like a TLR) rather than laid out flat on the top-plate. But I like reading the meter without having to look through the viewfinder, so this works for me.
 

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My mom had a great collection of Kodak Brownies of various vintages that we found when we cleaned out the house. She was a Sunday School teacher for years and took pictures of the kids in her classes frequently. It looked like she would go out and get a new Brownie whenever the most recent of the line up would quit working. But she never threw any of the cameras or the pictures away. They pictures were all stacked neatly in an old apple crate in the back of the office closet. The cameras were on the top shelf.

I kept two, an old No 2 and a No 2A. The No 2 was nibbled on by mice but both of them still work. I take them out and shoot them from time to time. I use an adapter on the No 2a now. The rest of the batch went off to a thrift shop as I recall.
 

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My last two additions to the collection were a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 515/16 ($13) and a Pentax SP1000 ($25). Both have been film tested and both are working beautifully. The Nettar needed a bit of lens cleaning and the SP1000 needed a lot of cleaning on a very dirty lens.

Here's the Nettar

This was shot with the Nettar


And, this was shot with the SP1000 using the included lens (Vivitar 50mm f1.8)
 
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