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

[Jon Shumpert]

I have two cameras I added to my collection last week. One is a Nikon FE body and the other is a Bolsey B3. I had never seen a Bolsey other than in photos. It is in beautiful condition and seems to work. I got it for $25 at a camera store in New Port Richey, FL. The Nikon was found at an antique store and was marked down to $20 because the mirror was locked up. I turned it to the manual settings of bulb and 1/90th and the mirror went down. Checked with batteries and it works great. Looks like very little wear. I also came across an older Rolleiflex with 3.5 lens, but didn't get it because the shutter was intermittent. I also passed on a rough looking Leica R3 body and a Contax RTS with tamron lens. The cameras looked rough and were priced higher than I was willing to pay. I will be loading both cameras with some film sometime this week.

 

[Jon Shumpert]

I did have one question regarding the Bolsey. Does anyone know what the symbols on the Bolsey logo on top of the camera represent?

 

[Kino]

I did have one question regarding the Bolsey. Does anyone know what the symbols on the Bolsey logo on top of the camera represent?

Your answers may lie here:
http://www.jacquesbolseyproject.com/index.html

 

[AgX]

I don't think so. The sword looks like what in Indonesia is called a klewang.

 

[AndyH]

I have three Bolsey models B-1, B-2, and C. My only issue is how old Jacques thought a mirror finished backing plate was a good idea.

????

Andy

 

[M-88]

Bronica ETRS. Haven't bought anything else in a while and been happy without GAS, but this one is not to be passed up.

 

[hartacus]

Nikon FG, bought because I came into some Nikon lenses but didn't have a working Nikon camera.
And at Christmas a Praktica Super TL3 that I'm currently trying to repair.

 

[R.Gould]

a mint Brojica ETRSi complete with a prisim finder,and a speedgrip Efrom the local camera repair person, not a mark on it, the one I have had for at least 20 years is much the worse for wear so to good a camera to pass up, for £ 150 GBP, and it even has the little cap on the hot shoe of the speed grip

 

[MattiS]

Winter means planning the next summer holidays - so I had to get a plasticfantastic 90ties submersible, compact p&s Canon Prima AS-1 now. Ok, one has to manipulate the DX code on the film roll to make "settings", but apart from that it´s fun.

 

[jtk]

Samsung NX 500. At 28mp with Pentax 50/2.5 macro it digitized 500+ Kodachromes in a two day marathon and records Ektachromes dye clouds.
Samsung quit cameras last year making this NX "old". Will buy another asap.

 

[Dmosher]

Nikon N80 with a 28-70mm lens. Using it as a point and shoot for day trips to the city.

 

[Uddin Ch]

Fujica ST605 for my M42 lens..

 

[canongary]

well g.a.s. got the better of me again.couldn't pass up this CANON AV-1. thirty bucks and it is mint.also my 75mm lens i got from keh camera for my s2a.also in fantastic condition.they had it listed as ugly.one little scratch mark on the barrel where it mounts inside helicoid. will be running a roll of film thru the canon this coming week.

 

[Toyo]

Bronica ETRS. Haven't bought anything else in a while and been happy without GAS, but this one is not to be passed up.

.... and with the E II lens.
Very nice.
Now to find a 120 back - or will the 220 also take 120 film?
Great camera by the way
T

 

[spoolman]

I picked up a Pentax 67 with the 105mm takumar lens. I've been trying to get one of these for almost 8 years. They have either been too expensive or had things wrong with them.With this purchase, I am truly done with buying anymore cameras. Accessories are another thing but with 130 cameras in my collection it is time to start thinning the herd,so to speak.

Most of what I have are kodak folders,russian rangefinders and assorted other cameras. They are not worth very much but I would like to get something for them. Once spring has sprung I'll be taking them out for a little exercise and shoot some film with them.

Doug

 

[Pentode]

I’m anxiously awaiting a Meopta Flexaret VII which is currently en route to me along with some filters and a lens shade.

 

[Kino]

A friend and I made a pact to stop buying cameras on the first of the year, so I made my final purchase; a slightly tattered, but fully functional Nikon F4 with a24-120mm F3.5-5.6D zoom. Already loaded up with a roll of Portra 400 (rated 320) and about half-way through the roll. It's a handful, and the grip takes some getting used to, but I like it and it's easy to shoot...

 

[M-88]

.... and with the E II lens.
Very nice.
Now to find a 120 back - or will the 220 also take 120 film?
Great camera by the way
T

Getting a 120 back would cost me as much as everything else together. I put 120 film in 220 back and it turned out just fine, the only thing different is that when loading film, I shouldn't match starting point arrows, but instead - stop winding 30-35 mm ahead. Otherwise I'll lose the last frame.

 

[AndroclesC]

GAS got the better of me over the holidays, and I picked up a Canon New F-1 with the new FD 50/1.4 in beautiful condition. I also bought a near-mint Pentax K2 with an SMC Pentax 50/1.4, and a well-worn OM-2n with a Zuiko 50/1.8. Not a bad haul!

Andy

 

[Sirius Glass]

GAS got the better of me over the holidays, and I picked up a Canon New F-1 with the new FD 50/1.4 in beautiful condition. I also bought a near-mint Pentax K2 with an SMC Pentax 50/1.4, and a well-worn OM-2n with a Zuiko 50/1.8. Not a bad haul!

Andy

GAS is the best. What would we do without GAS?

 

[markjwyatt]

Fujica ST605 for my M42 lens..

I did that too (not too long ago) simple, compact, and works for adapting my Deckle lenses to also.

 

[GRHazelton]

I've acquired an Accura 12mm fisheye in M 42 mount, and a Horizon swing-lens 35mm camera. With these two I can "bend time and space" and astound the general public, and myself! Coming down to Earth I've received a Voigtlander Kontur viewfinder for 35mm wide angle lenses. Would that Voigtlander would make a full range of these wonderful finders for many other focal lengths! Against that unlikely eventuality I have a Nikon RF VarioFocal Finder, 3.5cm-13.5cm, ordered. This will let me use the storied 105mm f2.5 lens on my Nikon S2, and if I find an affordable fast short tele for my Contax IIa.... Life is good while the money holds out!

 

[CMoore]

Well, as I'm getting older with some minor mobility issues developing I've sold off all the heavier gear so I guess my latest old camera would be my F80.

If we do not adapt, we die..... as the saying goes.
Perhaps not die, but slowed down by a heavier camera body at least.

I am 60, and still cary a F2 or F-1 New without trouble.
But i am getting older and not younger.....so I have a Oly OM1n and a Nikon Fm2n waiting in the wings.
I just bought one of those 80's for my wife. I believe it is N80 in the usa.?

The important thing is, you are still in The Game.!

 

[Kino]

Another Nikon F100. Bought inexpensively as non-functional body but with intact back, battery tray; was going to be my rainy day parts camera, but when it arrived, it fired up and worked flawlessly other than the diopter being detached from the adjustment knob.

So...I seem to have the best bad luck trying to buy hosed cameras for parts!

Looks like I try again to buy another body; one that has good diopter parts and cheap enough to insure that I don't get yet another body I have to rescue!

 

[summicron1]

canon eos 630 with two zoom lenses for a whopping $20 at the local thrift store.

Very nice cameras which, sadly, are worth about $10 these days -- I bought the outfit mostly for the nice case (tenba) and strap (optech, higher grade) but the camera works very nicely too -- a definite upgrade to the 650 someone gave me a few years ago.