What's the oldest camera you own?

[BrandonSi]

Ansco Shur-Flash. 1953. A sweet-mama of a 120 box camera.

I like 120. Something I actually get to develop myself! :)


http://www.vieilalbum.com/ShurFlashUS.htm

[CyberPet]

I have two old cameras I picked up in two different garage sales. One is called Iloca Quick-B (fully working) which I think is from 1954. The starting bid on eBay is $20 USD (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15234&item=7520812238&rd=1). Very valuable *giggles*

The other one is a Robot, but I'm not sure which model. I've looked at a few cameras on eBay to see if I can recognize my model, but mine have a flash shoe and two flash sync connectors on the front. It's a little gem though and they can use Carl Zeiss lenses (it has exchangable lenses). Right now there's only a Schneider-Kreuznacn Xenar 1:2.8/38 lens on it. My guess is that it's from the late 50's or early 1960's. But I'm emailing an expert to ask what year it was made, using the serial number.

I don't have a studio set-up, so I took some lousy pics on it.... maybe one of you knows what this is. :D

http://the-halls.se/camera/IMG_2893.jpg

http://the-halls.se/camera/IMG_2896.jpg

http://the-halls.se/camera/IMG_2898.jpg

Sorry for the short DOF, but.. oh well... didn't have the energy to mess around to take some snaps. :D

[Belmondo]

Somewhere around here I have a #3 Kodak Special which was sold around 1914-1915. It belonged to my grandfather.

[tim]

Olympus Mju-II 105 zoom (or something like that). It's maybe 5 years old :)

http://www.gidanagarder.dk/download/Marketing/FOT/Olympus-mjuII-low.jpg

[soupdragon]

eos 350d

[jimtfoto]

1930s Rolleiflex ...


cheers,
jim

[JulianL]

I have a Rolleiflex SLR camera made in the 70s. I have a 50mm lens and a 200mm lens for it. Both lenses are in excellent condition and the camera is in good condition. A used camera store near me offered me $200 for the entire set. I suspect he really just wanted the 200mm lens though.

[BlueTit]

Canon A70 I was never into photography until I bought that on a whim on my birthday two years ago, oh if only I had known what I was getting into!

But I do have a very old (about 30yrs)Carl Zeiss macro lens and bellows, it fits my 20d :-)

[AjP]

just selling my oldest cam I currently have Minolta 500si, the other cam either sold or was given away

[jeffherald]

I have a Topcon Auto 100 from about 1968. It was my grandfather's. He gave it to me in about 1987 and I used it until the late 1990's. I have these Topcor lenses: 50mm, 35mm, and 100mm. It still works, but I think the shutter speed isn't correct. It isn't worth it to me to fix it, it is just a museum piece. I keep it next to the full-height 5.25 10MB hard drive I have open and exposed for show.

[BrandonSi]

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The other one is a Robot, but I'm not sure which model. I've looked at a few cameras on eBay to see if I can recognize my model, but mine have a flash shoe and two flash sync connectors on the front. It's a little gem though and they can use Carl Zeiss lenses (it has exchangable lenses). Right now there's only a Schneider-Kreuznacn Xenar 1:2.8/38 lens on it. My guess is that it's from the late 50's or early 1960's. But I'm emailing an expert to ask what year it was made, using the serial number.


http://the-halls.se/camera/IMG_2893.jpg

http://the-halls.se/camera/IMG_2896.jpg

http://the-halls.se/camera/IMG_2898.jpg



Looks like the "Robot Star" to me.

http://www.lumieresenboite.com/collection2.php?l=2&c=Berning_Robot_Star

[CyberPet]

I'd say you are very right! So it looks like my guess was pretty correct, about late 50's or early 60's. Might even be early 50's. It's a sweet little camera and one of my friends (all large format cameras and Leica's) used it for a month, just to feel that "retro feel" and he found it produce very nice images!

I think it's cute anyway... although I wouldn't mind to have a Rollieflex or similar... just for fun. :)

[Raj]

Ihave a fully functional Russian FED 33, 1978 model :-)

[reneemc]

Anyone ever heard of a Practika FX3? I will try to post a pic tomorrow. I think it is pretty old.

[rdenney]

None of my stuff is really old. All of it works, though, so if it's so old it's not usable I'm not really interested in it.

I have a Rolleiflex 3.5 MX Type II, which was made in 1953 or so. It's still excellent. I have an Ilex Paragon 210/4.5 view camera lens that is coated and must therefore be no older than the late 40's. The Super Angulon 121/8 is probably early 60's or late 50's--it's in the old-style Synchro Compur shutter. Ansel Adams had a picture of just that lens in his book, The Camera, in the release published about 1980. There's the Moskba V 6x9 folder that was made in '58. And there's a Fed 3 that was probably made in the late 60's. I have a Canon TX that's probably 1970 vintage, and my F-1 dates from it's first year--1972. The Mamiya C-3 was made in the late 60's. The Nikonos II dates from the middle 70's, as I recall. None of that is really old, of course.

Anybody can buy old stuff. The question is: What is the oldest camera you bought new? For me, it's the F-1.

Rick "whose F-1 finally needs its first CLA" Denney