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I'm not quite 50 yet but if you send me a Rollei I can show you how to load it.
My Rolleicord or one of my two Rolleiflex Ts. Most unusual looking, at least in this day and age.
The problem when I do take them out is, for me, they get too much attention. Usually from other old duffers (like me) who want to talk "photography" with me, which I dislike doing as mostly I have to field inane comments like "my dad had one of those once" or "what is that little yellow lens you have on it, for??"
But then it serves me right for wanting to relive my past...
Rollei TLRs were THE camera of their time and not at all unusual, but most have vanished from the photo scene in the last decade. Nobody aged less than 50 would even know how to load one, less alone use it in this digicrap-everything day and age.
IIRC, I still have an Estes Camrock(?) in a box in the basement. If not, it's a holographic camera which I never got around to using.
To help you with your recovery:
This is a good way to end GAS for the short term. If the GAS comes back, go back to number 1.
- Close your eyes
- Take a big deep breathe
- Repeat #2 several times
- Open your eyes
- Sit before your computer
- Take a deep breath
- Open the web server
- In the URL slowly type either KEH.com or eBay.com or Photrio.com
- Search for your hearts desire
- Open the listed candidates
- Select one or more choices
- Pull out your credit card
- Take a deep breath
- Select "Buy"
- Fill our your name, address, credit card number, credit card expiration date, secret code
- Select "Send"
- Take a deep breath
- Enjoy the joy of success
- Start tracking the shipping
- Look out the window watch for Amazon, DHL, FedEX, UPS, [insert national postal system here]
- When Amazon, DHL, FedEX, UPS, [insert national postal system here] vehicles appear on your street, chase after it
- When the package arrives, unpack your hearts desire and start testing
- Enjoy the Glow
I have been using these Rollei cameras since they came out in the 1980s, so I guess I did not think they were too oddball. But, I agree with bdial, they certainly don't match the common 35mm design!
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I followed your instructions. Now a Minty (I love this term) Leica IIIg is on it's way from Japan. Oy
What is this even?
That is a modified WWII U.S. Navy Torpedo Bomber training camera.
6x18cm on 120 film.
Made by Russell Vought Co.
They were used to film torpedo bombing runs from underneath the plane (TBM / TBF Avengers)....used for training purposes.
(Real torpedoes were too expensive and needed in the Pacific Theater).
I modified it to accept a Fuji 135mm lens. (Oh, the irony! ).
Viewfinder by the Cameradactyl company.
Cool. Any examples of shots taken with it?
My oldest camera is a Canon EF made in August 1975.
What's odd is that the Canon EF is an FD mount, instead of an EF. That's just weird.
It's nowhere near as strange as some I've seen here, but I couldn't resist the Agfa Flexilette, a 35mm TLR that was produced for only one year 1960-61. Somewhat awkward to use, but fun, and the photos look fine.
110 rocket camera?
What's odd is that the Canon EF is an FD mount, instead of an EF. That's just weird.
Tessina
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WideLux F7
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Graflex Model D
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There is no Model D, it is called Series D
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