Post your "old camera collection" photos

Thank you

Mike Martin wrote in post #17421632

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Nice camera and photo!

Here is my Yashica TL-Electro SLR

Fun thread. Here are a few of mine. I shot these photos for a typology exercise in a digital photo class a couple of years ago. I have others but....

Some of these were originally my dad's, he gave them to me years ago (I had to shoot with some of them when I was a teenager, great practice), I have added some others.

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Nice collection.

Thanks. I think I learned how to use profanity as a teenager shooting with that Leica. That little devil was really tough to load with film.....

That is a really cool collection of cameras. Are they all working? I think it is so cool to shoot with the older cameras and see the images that they produce.

Contax IIa Color Dial

Dave3222 wrote in post #17441817
That is a really cool collection of cameras. Are they all working? I think it is so cool to shoot with the older cameras and see the images that they produce.

This is not all of them. Most of them work but haven't had film sent through them in a while. The A1 was last used about 5 or 6 years ago. The Nikon has a dead meter due to lack of batteries but functions. The other 35 mm's still work I believe. The TLR's I am not sure about. My niece is running some film through the later Rollei right now so we'll see if it functions. That one I would get serviced. I have used them all at one time or another years ago. I used the baby Speed Graphic last in the 1980's, it worked. The folders (I have a bunch of them in all sizes) are mostly obsolete film formats so I really have never used them although I have had most of them for quite a while.

I'm now motivated to dig out my older film cameras and gear and upload a few images.

This is a nice thread, thank you to the OP for starting this one.

edmidlifecrisis wrote in post #17445790
This is not all of them. Most of them work but haven't had film sent through them in a while.
... The folders (I have a bunch of them in all sizes) are mostly obsolete film formats so I really have never used them although I have had most of them for quite a while.

Nice collection you have!
For the folders you can use 120 film and modify the camera's film opening with DIY carton strips and tape. I have also bought some Bluefire 127 film from FrugalPhotographer to use it in my old 127 cameras. My main problem is that labs can scan 120 film up to 6x6, 127 film they cannot. So I must rephotograph the negatives and invert them in LightRoom.

stetzam wrote in post #17446784
Nice collection you have!
For the folders you can use 120 film and modify the camera's film opening with DIY carton strips and tape. I have also bought some Bluefire 127 film from FrugalPhotographer to use it in my old 127 cameras. My main problem is that labs can scan 120 film up to 6x6, 127 film they cannot. So I must rephotograph the negatives and invert them in LightRoom.

Thanks for the tip. One of them, for example, a Kodak, has a sticker inside that says to use Kodak 616 film. There are some instructions on the web somewhere for conversion. A project for a really slow day!!

You can use wall plugs to lengthen the 120 spool
I've done it for the Ansco Clipper camera, but make sure the film opening is 6x6 or else you will have overlaps
http://oldcameracollec​tion.blogspot.gr …l/Ansco%20Flash​%20Clipper

I looked at all my folders today. They take 116 (there was a roll in that one), 616, and 620 film. The humongous Kodak 3A doesn't say anywhere, even the empty spool doesn't say. I looked it up, it says 122 film which I have never seen.

Anyone know about 122 or 116? I know that 620 can convert to 120 (my ancient Rollei in the pic a few posts back was converted when my dad used it).

I also know that I have a 120 back for the baby Speed Graphic so can use it without searching for the small sheet film. I just have to remember how to load it!!