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Post by solderdude on Apr 6, 2015 14:58:44 GMT
A few cameras from my collection are Russian (count east German to Russian as well) below: Krasnogorsk Moskow 4 (1945 - 1968) 2 x Lubitel 2. One in Cyrillic and the other for the EU market. (1949 - 1974) Later on they produced a slightly more modern looking version. Kiev 4A. This was a Contax copy... well copy ... it was made in the disassembled factory that was brought to Russia but materials were inferior. Zorki and FED were Leica copies... much cheaper and gave decent pictures. Later on they also made copies with Leica engravings. Had a black one of those but sold it as well as several later Zorki and FED cameras. Welta Penti... O.K. not Russian but East German. Weird looking camera available in various colours. Strange transport mechanism (push-rod) Since I have (and like) the whole Minox 35 line (except the gold plated one) I had to have the Kiev 35A as well. Vastly inferior in every aspect !
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2015 15:14:47 GMT
That Welta's a belta! ? Sorry, I've never heard of or seen one before. Nice collection too.
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Post by solderdude on Apr 6, 2015 15:28:52 GMT
The Welti is a half-35mm (18x24) format, like the old Olympus PEN cameras, using 'Rapid cassettes' This one had the lenshood with it and liked the white one. All of them have the gold colour front and back. My collection: No expensive ones, only cheapies that are now almost wortless. The only cameras that sort of held their value are Hasselblad, Leica and Contax and some highly collectables. Have none of those. Most cameras worked or got them working. quite a few had one or more rolls of film going through them. Had quite a lot more but started selling most of them and only kept what I could fit in the cabinets. I like the Rollei 35's and Mixox 35's the most ... and the Olympus XA series.
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Post by Rabbit on Apr 6, 2015 15:33:29 GMT
OMG Frans. Now you're getting scary!! My first camera was very similar to the Krasnogorsk Moskow 4 and used 120 roll. I had a little roll in tank to develop the negatives and I used to print underneath a sheet at night time!!! How sad is that? I was only about 10 or 11 though. Then I bought myself a Mamiya twin lens reflex... C330? Loved it to bits too. Then my first SLR was a Mamiya roll film camera. That was drop dead gorgeous.
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Post by solderdude on Apr 6, 2015 15:51:40 GMT
Had the C220 but replaced it with Yashica Mat 124G. Sold them all later on and if need be I could still grap my Rolleiflex, Yashica Mat or Seagull. Also had the KIEV 6 (great pictures in 6x6) but replaced that for a Mamiya 645 (4.5 x 6 on 120 film) later on. Used those for wedding photography mainly. Backed the important takes up with Nikon FE2 or Canonet QL17G3 just to ensure I had something. The wife tagged along as my packing ...ermm ... dragged tripods and bags along the whole day through and reloaded the cameras. The Kiev wasn't really reliable, the Mamiya 645 only failed me once on vacation when I hadn't put in the roll correctly. The film counter running over 17 shots was the give-away... Fortunately I made the same shots with the Minox 35GT so nothing was lost. Now I only have a few 120 film cams in the collection. Not in digital though... only a small cheap Nikon for pictures on the web. The first camera I ever bought was the Kodak instamic 33... it used those 126 cartridges (square photos). 2nd cabinet from the right, top right corner. Gave it away but later (during my photography/collecting 'phase') bought one on a fare for 5 Euros for sentimental reasons.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2015 16:26:08 GMT
That is an awesome collection!
My first camera was also a Kodak 33, bought for me by my Mum's Embassy cigarette coupons!
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Post by hifidez on Apr 7, 2015 11:07:25 GMT
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Post by elysion on Jun 20, 2015 3:35:13 GMT
The last (digital) camera, which I've bought in 2002, is a model from summer 2001. It's a Canon PowerShot G2 and still working. I use it almost only for making pics for internet use, so the measly four megapixels of this oldie do not matter at all. The age is nothing in comparison to the real oldies above, but it's certainly a ripe old age for a digital cam. I see only very slight corrosion on the flashlight mount. It was manufactured before the RoHS guidelines and made with leaded solder. Probably the newer cams aren't as long-lived anymore.
I can still get new rechargeable batteries from Canon for this camera type since the same battery type was used in dozens of Canon cams.
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