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

[dynachrome]

A second Yashica FX-3 Super 2000.

 

[Ian Grant]

Surpringly for me a couple of SLRs. First a post WWII Mentor 9x12 camera that needs the shutter overhauled as it's not functioning.

Second a very nice fully woring KW Praktina FX with a 50mm CZJ Tessar, it's the later versionwith a semi automatic apeture, it's a surprisingly well made East German camera - the first 35mm full sytem cameras and can take a bulk film back, as well as a motor drive unlike the slightly earlier Exactas. The build quality is excellent way above Exactas and Prakticas. The case shows the attention to detail, a button to activate the camera base plates rewind button, holes for the body's strap lugs. The film adanvance, mirror return and shutter are smoother than a screw thread Leica. I paid way below the typical market price.

Ian

 

[Kino]

Here's an odd TLR I found this weekend. The shutter works @ 100th of a second, but the speed dial and focus mechanism are frozen solid. Otherwise, is is pretty much pristine except for a bit of dust that can be easily cleaned.

 

[underground]

This is a new addition. Pentax 67. It is a MONSTER, and works great.
The war department (wife) doesn't understand why i continue to buy new old cameras. I just tell her that it keeps me out of jail.

 

[flavio81]

This is a new addition. Pentax 67. It is a MONSTER,

For me the P67 was the "compact" alternative to my Mamiya RB67...

With the 90/2.8 your camera will become more compact; if you can find one, grab it. It is a very very very good lens, in the tradition of perfect Pentax optics.

 

[Brett Rogers]

Surpringly for me a couple of SLRs. First a post WWII Mentor 9x12 camera that needs the shutter overhauled as it's not functioning.

Second a very nice fully woring KW Praktina FX with a 50mm CZJ Tessar, it's the later versionwith a semi automatic apeture, it's a surprisingly well made East German camera - the first 35mm full sytem cameras and can take a bulk film back, as well as a motor drive unlike the slightly earlier Exactas. The build quality is excellent way above Exactas and Prakticas. The case shows the attention to detail, a button to activate the camera base plates rewind button, holes for the body's strap lugs. The film adanvance, mirror return and shutter are smoother than a screw thread Leica. I paid way below the typical market price.

Ian

Ian,
I won a Praktina cheaply 18 months or so ago, and for once, it was from a local eBayer not far from home, so I was able to collect. He'd sold three on behalf of a family friend, all listings ending within minutes of each other. I won the middle listing but not the others (and couldn't really afford all three, anyway).

When I arrived to collect my prize we got on well, the seller was a really nice guy, too. The winning bidder of one of the other examples had baulked on the postage cost and reneged on their purchase. So the seller gave it to me together with the example I had actually won. Whilst they both needed a bit of servicing they are now working well. For approximately $70 Australian dollars I had two working Praktinas, with two different lenses and two types of finders, each with its own accessory rapid winder, to boot.

Frankly, I went after them because I just have a thing for old German cameras and shiny Zeiss lenses, and they piqued my curiosity. I knew the basics about them, but had never actually seen one in the flesh. I like oddball, weirdo, cameras and these seemed to fit the bill.

What surprised me is just how nicely made and finished they are. The Praktinas have exceeded all my expectations of their quality. They may have a name virtually identical to their better known Praktina cousins, but share only a few common features and are in another realm of build altogether. I positively adore mine.

Last year I published a review of the Praktina FX. You might possibly find it to be of some minor assistance in getting to know yours. You'll find it here, together with a few sample images from them.
https://tasmanianfilmphotography.wordpress.com/2016/05/26/kw-praktina-fx-35mm-slr-review/

In other news I scored a non-working and possibly fixable tidy Weston Master IV yesterday for a fiver from a local second hand shop; won an ostensibly working Master V on eBay a few days back, which will hopefully arrive tomorrow, and a couple of months back I quite unexpectedly had an Alpa fall into my lap. I'll have to do some work on that one before I can shoot it though.
Cheers,
Brett

 

[narsuitus]

Recently, a colleague gave me a Nikon N2000 35mm SLR with a Nikon MF-19 data back.

I have never bonded with a camera so quickly.



Manual Focus by Narsuitus, on Flickr

 

[Jarrett]

I got a Konica Autoreflex nT3. It's a nice hefty camera.

 

[darinwc]

Recently, a colleague gave me a Nikon N2000 35mm SLR with a Nikon MF-19 data back.

I have never bonded with a camera so quickly.



Manual Focus by Narsuitus, on Flickr

That's a nice kit of lenses! Did they come with the n2000?

 

[narsuitus]

That's a nice kit of lenses! Did they come with the n2000?

No, I already had the 135 f/2 and 18mm f/3.5 for use on my other Nikon bodies. However, the N2000 did come with the 105mm f/2.8 Lester A. Dines macro lens and ring light seen in this photo.



Macro by Narsuitus, on Flickr

 

[John_Nikon_F]

Ringlight looks like it's based on a Sunpak 433D flash unit... Anyway, I might have some extra N2000/2020 parts that I don't need.

-J

 

[John Wiegerink]

Yesterday a free Canon A-1 panorama date underwater camera. Now my other two are not cameras, but camera related. About two months ago I bid on a Omega D-2 4x5 enlarger w/lens and the new Aristo VC cold light head on a local online auction. Well, I'm the proud owner of it now at a cost of $18.00. Last week the same auction had another D-2 with 4x5 carrier and the variable condenser head. I bid $10.00 and won it for $1.00. I still have my darkroom and use it with a passion so these are wanted items by me. I already have an Omega D-3V which now wears an Ilford VC 400HL head. While the D-3V is a very good enlarger I hate the Auto-focus setup on it and prefer the D-2, which until now, I did not own. So, swap out time. The second D-2 is heading up to my cottage on the lake where I'm setting up a second darkroom. Nice stuff out there if you're in no hurry.

 

[sabredog]

A late night eBay win. Olympus XA3 in very good condition with new light seals and new batteries. Ready to load film and use.

At under A$50, a bargain as far as I am concerned.

 

[FujiLove]

A Mamiya 6 with 75mm & 150mm lenses.

 

[Thomas.Goehler]

I treated myself to my first Leica, an R5 with a 50mm/f2 Summicron lens.

 

[LeftCoastKid]

A gift (an attempt at humor?) from a colleague at work: A Polaroid Super Shooter Land Camera. Camera came in its original box (ugly shape, printed, according to the information on the bottom of the box, in January 1975) with two warranty cards. Not sure what to do with the thing since I'm not a Polaroid shooter; for that matter, I don't know if film is still available for this camera. I may just opt to donate it here...

 

[Theo Sulphate]

A gift: ... A Polaroid Super Shooter Land Camera. ... Not sure what to do with the thing since I'm not a Polaroid shooter; for that matter, I don't know if film is still available for this camera. I may just opt to donate it here...

These are good. They take the still-available but discontinued Fuji pack film (FP-3000B for B&W, FP-100C for color).

My results with my cheap Polaroid Super Shooter and this film have been stunning. I'm pretty critical about what I hang up on my walls at home, but out of 10 shots I typically get 6 or 7 photos worthy of a collage.

Though expensive, the Fuji film is very very good and with FP-3000B the negative is easily peeled away.

 

[E. von Hoegh]

A Kodak 35 RF, wth the "Deluxe Field Case". Dirty, lens hazy, transport stiff, but the rangefinder lines up, the shutter works, selftimer ditto, with some cleaning it could be used as-is.
Made in 1941, it has the Anstigmat Special uncoated front focussing Tessar and No.1 Kodamatic shutter with T,B, and speeds from 10 to 200.
One of these was my first "real" camera ca. 1974. I did not appreciate how good the lens was then.

 

[guangong]

In 1968 I bought a Zeiss Folding Contessa from Camera Barn in NYC. Not as familiar with cameras then as now and there was no internet for downloading manuals and not able to make it work, so I returned it. Just received a beautiful Contessa from Japan at a very good price. Found a new old stock sun shade on that auction site and it arrived same day as camera. Awaiting delivery of 2 typically eccentric Zeiss filters. (Thank god Nikon went their own way and used the same 52 mm for the majority of their lenses.) The Contessa almost makes my solidly built Retinas look a little flimsy. And as Steve Gandy notes, more chrome than a 1950s Oldsmobile.

 

[Bud Hamblen]

An Argus A2F, in pretty good shape, arrived at my doorstep yesterday.

 

[sepiareverb]

An MP that I got second hand and had "redesigned" through Leica NJ. A totally horrible experience, but the camera is back almost as I wanted it to be ten months later, a year since I initially asked about having it done. Absolutely terrible customer service in NJ. Choose Solms for anything.

 

[Paul Howell]

Minolta Hi-Matic 11, seems to be new never used, with case and lens cap. As long time user of Canon QL 1.7, what like about the Minolta 11 takes 55mm filters rather than 48mm that the Canon takes, what I dont like is no manual override, just 2 auto exposure modes, A, and shutter speed preferred. Fit and finish seems about the same, lens is 6 elements.

 

[CMoore]

After my wife's 600si would not give up its Error Message, i got her a (body only) Minolta 700si. It seems to function properly and is in good shape.
Just because it was a good deal and came with three lens and a bag, i (earlier) bought her a 7000. She now has those three, good, Minolta lens and the 7000 as a back-up.

 

[sabredog]

A last minute decision to pop into a Cash Converters store was a good one.

Konica Autoreflex TC for A$29

Cleaned up a treat and everything works as it should. Love the KER-THUNK! of the shutter release. Very mechanical and solid.

Need to get a Hexanon 40mm lens for it now.

 

[Jeff Bradford]

Kodak Vigilant Six-16. I've rigged it for 120 and now I'm getting 6x11. I think it's just about perfect (the format, not the decaying old camera).