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

[Sirius Glass]

Minolta X-700
Nikon N-75

 

[Brian L]

A Pentax LX just arrived today!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKIgdZWU7Qw

 

[Sirius Glass]

Enjoy!

 

[elcabezagrande]

Leica IIIf with radioactive Summicron 50/2 by Mike Novak, on Flickr

 

[Sirius Glass]

Very nice. Enjoy it.

 

[John_Nikon_F]

Well-used black FM2n. First body purchase in a while. Got it for $62 shipped through Roberts Camera in Indanapolis, IN, off their evilBay store.

-J

 

[John_Nikon_F]

Nikkormat FTn early.
It is a low serial number. One thing I learned was that the FT and the early FTn didn't have the "Leica bell" thread around the shutter button.

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For some reason, I have been seeing too many Nikkormats with the prism bashed. Uhmm, I wonder if they were used in a war zone...

Another interesting tidbit about the 35xxxxx and lower 36xxxxx bodies: they won't go past f/22. If you want to go past that aperture to f/32, the coupling pin has to be all the way to the right, as if you're mounting the lens, and then you need to do stop-down metering. The FT is the same way, as are the earlier Nikon F meters (both Photomic and clip-on).

With respect to the dents, mainly amateurs who have bumped the cameras into something. My father did it to his FTn about two years after purchase. After he gave it to me, it received more dents and dings. I was pretty hard on it, but, like a timex watch, it kept working fine, even after the top cover had almost no angular edges to it.

-J

 

[theboatdude]

Just received an SRT-100 this week and am part way through the test roll. I have a K-1000 inbound, due next week. I might have a problem

 

[canvassy]

A Nikkormat FT, purchased this week and loaded up today.

 

[Sewin]

Picked up this Kowa SE for just under £7 with supplementary lenses, filters and other bits and pieces. (Sellers pics)

It's a camera I don't know much about apart from it being sold by Dixons in the 60's, I'm not expecting too much from it, particularly the lenses.
Internet information is pretty limited, so if anyone has any experiences of this camera, good or bad, please tell!

 

[Manwithacam]

I bought two Minoltas this week, a Dynax 404si body for GBP1.99 from ebay and a Dynax 3xi with 35-80mm powerzoom for GBP10 from a charity shop. The 404si has an orange/red discolouration in the pentaprism that I have never seen in any of the 50+ SLR cameras I own. It is still useable though.

 

[flavio81]

Picked up this Kowa SE for just under £7 with supplementary lenses, filters and other bits and pieces. (Sellers pics)

It's a camera I don't know much about apart from it being sold by Dixons in the 60's, I'm not expecting too much from it, particularly the lenses.
Internet information is pretty limited, so if anyone has any experiences of this camera, good or bad, please tell!

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Kowa_SE
http://photo.net/classic-cameras-forum/00XGF9
http://www.butkus.org/chinon/kowa/kowa_se/kowa_se.htm

 

[Sewin]

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Kowa_SE
http://photo.net/classic-cameras-forum/00XGF9
http://www.butkus.org/chinon/kowa/kowa_se/kowa_se.htm

Thanks,

I came across those during my internet searches. Be interesting to see how the leaf shutter performs. I also read somewhere that they aren't the most reliable of cameras, I'll wait and see.

 

[cuthbert]

An old Praktica B200 with the rare Pancolar in PB mount:

Spent 25 euros plu shipping.

 

[Gimenosaiz]

Hi!

Bessaflex TM + Super Takumar 50/1.4


_MG_6300 (1100x1028) by Antonio Test, en Flickr

https://www.cameraquest.com/voigtFlexTM.htm

Regards!

 

[John_Nikon_F]

Well-used black FM2n. First body purchase in a while. Got it for $62 shipped through Roberts Camera in Indanapolis, IN, off their evilBay store.

-J

Scratch that. Camera wound up being as advertised, instead of something that hopefully would've been an easy fix. Parted out. Instead, a friend on farcebook wants to trade me his black F with FTn finder and F-36 drive for my 20/3.5, which I last used in February. Done deal.

-J

 

[skorpiius]

Just received a Nikon F100 yesterday to pair with my D300. great solid feeling camera. Although on the not-so-solid side the first thing I checked were the film back door locking hooks (plastic, tend to break) and the film spool (plastic tends to break), was very happy to see if had the newer design film spool and the door hooks were good. Going to be very gentle opening and closing the back though

 

[OptiKen]

Nikon N8008s from KEH for $11.95 free shipping:

 

[Jon Buffington]

2 bucks at the thrift store bought a Minolta freedom escort, the clone/kissing cousin of the Leica mini II. Cheapie looking and handling P&S. Now to finish a roll through it to see if the lens stands up to the hype.

 

[Digimix13]

A Excelent condition (shutter was CLA'd by someone that is regarded as the best in my country) Rolleiflex Automat K4B2 from 1939/1945 (not sure)!

Already put 3 rolls of Delta 400 through it and the images are amazing =)

 

[Theo Sulphate]

A Excelent condition (shutter was CLA'd by someone that is regarded as the best in my country) Rolleiflex Automat K4B2 from 1939/1945 (not sure)!

Already put 3 rolls of Delta 400 through it and the images are amazing =)

Based on the serial number, I think it's an RF111A from 1937-1939. The K4B2 serial numbers started at 1,050,000.

http://www.rolleiclub.com/cameras/tlr/info/all_TLR.shtml

Nice!

 

[Kyle M.]

I bought a nearly mint Argus C44 with the Cintagon 50mm 2.8 yesterday. We'll see how I like it and if things go well I'll hunt down the Steinheil made Cintagon 35mm, and 100mm lenses for it plus a finder.

 

[Digimix13]

Based on the serial number, I think it's an RF111A from 1937-1939. The K4B2 serial numbers started at 1,050,000.

http://www.rolleiclub.com/cameras/tlr/info/all_TLR.shtml

Nice!

I also thought that at first too but, if you read Rolleiclub's info carefully, you'll notice that they have a small note stating that some of the K4B's serial numbers are shared with the RF111A model xD

In fact, I got pretty confused about this so I dug a little deeper and came to the conclusion that she is a K4B2 because:

-Taking lens is a Carls Zeiss Jena Tessar (RF111A is Carl Zeiss Tessar);
-Shutter and aperture dials are black (RF111A both are grey);
-Frank and Heidecke name under taking lens (RF111A under viewing lens);
-Shutter release button has cable release thread ( RF111A no cable thread);
-She weights ~940g without film witch is close to the K4B's reference weight of 928g (RF111A reference weight is 850g that's a pretty big difference there).

These are all consistent with Rolleiclub's description of the K4B2 model, the only thing that still leaves some doubts is the fact that when it comes to the K4B2 model in particular, they don't state serial number intercrossing.

However, inside the K4B model series, she still has more similarities with the K4B2 model than the original K4B witch is much closer to the RF111A model than what mine seems to be (again, according to Rolleiclub's description).

I could be wrong though, these things are old, the records aren't perfect and it seems that some inconsistencies exist. If someone with a deeper knowledge about Rolleis could help a bit, that would be great!

 

[Sirius Glass]

Welcome to APUG

 

[frank]

New old camera: Kodak retina lllc with 50f2 Heligon Rodenstock lens.