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

Tamara · Jun 11, 2015

cuthbert said:
Nice shot and nice model! Which lens did you use?

Nikkor 105 f/2.5 Ai. Other than the 43-86 f/3.5 I got with my EM, it's the only manual focus F-mount lens I have. I know I can use the newer AF glass in manual mode on the FM2n, but it would feel weird.

LarryP · Jun 11, 2015

Spotmatic with the 8 element 1.4 50 . Body is pretty ratty but bought it for the 50 spent $25, figured the body is good for learning to replace seals on and a few spare parts for the good spotty. Couple weeks ago picked up a good k1000 with 28mm 3.5 m42 mount and the pentax adapter for $25 as well.

leicarfcam · Jun 12, 2015

Found and bought a black paint Nikon F2 with 50mm f/1.4 and working DP-1 at a local thrift store for $40

Tamara · Jun 12, 2015

leicarfcam said:
Found and bought a black paint Nikon F2 with 50mm f/1.4 and working DP-1 at a local thrift store for $40

A little jelly here, actually.

Steve Roberts · Jun 12, 2015

cuthbert said:
Pictures or the bargain never happened!

Oh well - if you insist! The pics include a couple of things I forgot to mention that were part of the lot (such as a d****l camera!)
Steve

dosilverhalide · Jun 12, 2015

The Exakta from a few days ago has expired. I got about 8 negatives out of it. I just remembered , two weeks ago I passed on a Burk & James Solar enlarger at a local house hold junk yard.. Parts of it were missing and the lens was froze up. J.

Jim Moore · Jun 12, 2015

Waiting for me when I arrived home from work today.

f/16 · Jun 12, 2015

I've been wanting to explore the Maxxum world for a long time. Last night I ordered from KEH Maxxum 7000 and 7000i bodies with a 35-105 3.5-4.5, custom function card for the 7000i, wired remote, and instructions for both bodies. Today I picked up a 2CR5 lithium battery for the 7000i at an electronics store for $4.

ciniframe · Jun 13, 2015

Well it's been a couple of months but the last camera I bought is a Minox IIIs. This was a pure impulse buy. I had went to the photo show to unload stuff, not buy more. It was very clean with a measuring chain and case, reasonable for $40
Of course to get it up and running required film and that ain't cheap. So far I've spent another $100 and a lot of time cutting down a Yankee plastic reel to develop the film. Also had to build a film slitter but had the necessary items for that already on hand. Expensive little hobby this.

Malinku · Jun 14, 2015

Spent under $15 and got two P&S cameras.

A Yashica T3D

and a Pentax IQZoom 200

Paul Verizzo · Jun 14, 2015

My 35mm hardware is focused, pardon the pun, on Ricoh XR-P cameras and lenses. They are dirt cheap, I just bought a camera body and motor drive for $25 total on eBay this week. It is like brand new condition. I've picked up a number of similar bargains in recent years. Lenses and accessories are cheap. Ricoh lenses are similar in quality to any other Japanese brand; I saw a review where the 50mm f/2 Richoh out performed the Pentax equivalent. With computers, lens design is commodity science.

When photographers in fourth world countries needed the very highest body qualities, you know, o rings everywhere, maybe high end cameras could be justified. Not so much any more.

If you think you need a Nikon or Canon to make great photographs, you are wrong. Please don't go back and look at what people did a hundred years ago with uncoated, poor lenses with ISO 5 or 10 films.

Don't ever blame your hardware!

Sirius Glass · Jun 14, 2015

Paul Verizzo said:
Don't ever blame your hardware!

If you have a Hasselblad, you cannot blame your hardware. That makes you think more and work harder to show that you are deserving.

Tamara · Jun 14, 2015

Was that in response to a specific post? I think I lost the conversational thread. :confused:

John Earley · Jun 15, 2015

My newest 35mm cameras are a Canon P, Leica M2 and Leica M3. My latest SLR is a Nikon N80. My latest sheet film camera is a Zeiss Ikon Taxo 9x12 plate camera.

Steve Bellayr · Jun 15, 2015

I bought three cameras last month (Nikon f2, Nikon f2 Photomic, & Canon F1). I have had the Nikon f2 CLA'd & it is ready to use with my current lens line up on my F3hp. The other 2 need CLA's.

omarmagdi · Jun 15, 2015

I just acquired a Leica IIIf from an Antique Shop in Cairo for around $200 and a 50mm Elmar!
Stellar deal!

TheToadMen · Jun 15, 2015

omarmagdi said:
I just acquired a Leica IIIf from an Antique Shop in Cairo for around $200 and a 50mm Elmar!
Stellar deal!

Well done! Shoot some film and let us know how it worked out.

cuthbert · Jun 15, 2015

Just got two rare zooms, a Pentax A 35-210mm and a Zeiss Vario-Prakticar:

I definitely spent too much for these zooms, almost like two good primes, but they are hard to find.

cuthbert · Jun 15, 2015

Just got two rare zooms, a Pentax A 35-210mm and a Zeiss Vario-Prakticar:

I definitely spent too much for these zooms, almost like two good primes, but they are hard to find.

Paul Verizzo said:
My 35mm hardware is focused, pardon the pun, on Ricoh XR-P cameras and lenses. They are dirt cheap, I just bought a camera body and motor drive for $25 total on eBay this week. It is like brand new condition. I've picked up a number of similar bargains in recent years. Lenses and accessories are cheap. Ricoh lenses are similar in quality to any other Japanese brand; I saw a review where the 50mm f/2 Richoh out performed the Pentax equivalent. With computers, lens design is commodity science.

When photographers in fourth world countries needed the very highest body qualities, you know, o rings everywhere, maybe high end cameras could be justified. Not so much any more.

If you think you need a Nikon or Canon to make great photographs, you are wrong. Please don't go back and look at what people did a hundred years ago with uncoated, poor lenses with ISO 5 or 10 films.

Don't ever blame your hardware!

Unfortunately the Canonikisti appear to be the snobbest crop of the photographic world, I thought the Leicisti were but I was wrong, most of them are more open minded than you would expect, Pentaxians are cool too, they are followers of a brand who didn't patent their bayonet design after all.

Ricardo Miranda · Jun 15, 2015

f/16 said:
I've been wanting to explore the Maxxum world for a long time. Last night I ordered from KEH Maxxum 7000 and 7000i bodies with a 35-105 3.5-4.5, custom function card for the 7000i, wired remote, and instructions for both bodies. Today I picked up a 2CR5 lithium battery for the 7000i at an electronics store for $4.

I hope it is the original Custom card and not the Custom XI.
Minolta made a second type for the XI series and the 700SI which became the last model to use the cards and the first of the SI series.

I acquired within a week an OM-4 and a black OM-2N. Also an OM 135mm /3.5.

f/16 · Jun 15, 2015

Ricardo Miranda said:
I hope it is the original Custom card and not the Custom XI.
Minolta made a second type for the XI series and the 700SI which became the last model to use the cards and the first of the SI series.

I'm pretty sure it's the I and not the newer XI. Here's the pic KEH had on their site.

f/16 · Jun 15, 2015

"Unfortunately the Canonikisti appear to be the snobbest crop of the photographic world"

Yes I know what you mean. I'm more Nikon than anything else, but I realize they all make good products. It seems that with classic analog gear, Nikon is the most popular. But with modern DSLR's, Canon is probably by far the most popular. And it seems those digital Canonians are are a little snobbier than the rest.

Paul Verizzo · Jun 15, 2015

I have a Rollei, a 1944 Leica, both needing sme minimal repair.

My "go to" 35mm cameras for a number of years have been Ricoh XR-7 to start with, now the XR-P's for a number of years. If your goal isn't being a snob, great cameras and often great lenses. And on the cheap. I like cheap. Some years ago I read that the Ricoh 50mm f/2 performed better than the equivalent Pentax.

I just bought an XR-P body and motor drive in pristine condition for $25 total. Not dissimilar in pricing and value over the recent years as I've bought ther Ricoh cameras, accessories, and lenses.

If your goal is to own a Nikon, Canon, or Minolta, great. If your goal is to make quality 35mm photographs on the cheap, check out Ricoh.

Ricardo Miranda · Jun 16, 2015

f/16 said:
I'm pretty sure it's the I and not the newer XI. Here's the pic KEH had on their site.

Yeap, that's the one!
And it is the only one I am missing.

Minolta made 2 cases for the cards: case 1 is just a small credit card size case in plastic and holds just 4 cards if I remember well. Case 2 was in leather, holds more cards and can be attached to a strap.

Xmas · Jun 16, 2015

f/16 said:
"Unfortunately the Canonikisti appear to be the snobbest crop of the photographic world"

Yes I know what you mean. I'm more Nikon than anything else, but I realize they all make good products. It seems that with classic analog gear, Nikon is the most popular. But with modern DSLR's, Canon is probably by far the most popular. And it seems those digital Canonians are are a little snobbier than the rest.

If you go back to 45-60...
Nikon did not make a lot of rangefinders and used a custom mount.
Canon's are more practical and easier to find & still very reliable.
And modern lenses if you want them are cheap.

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

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