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Bosskwok wrote:
Try your tux breast pocket

Oh, my.....I donated the tux years ago

Ernemann Dresden Heag XI

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I don't know anything about it specifically, Bosskwok. It looks to be about late 1920's - early 1930's vintage based on the construction. It also appears to have some tilt/shift capabilities.

I do like the older stuff and this is no exception. Its an antique, that's for certain. Might be very valuable as well.

You can try this (http://www.photographi​ca.nu/) website. There is a brother of your cam listed here. Also it has several links to other old camera sites.

OR

You search Google for "Ernemann Heag"

BTW Nice camera!!!

Thanks for the life line!

Bosskwok

These were my Father's cameras. The Voigtlander traveled with him during WW2 in the US Navy on a destroyer escourt. This camera was well used and he took some fantastic pictures. I believe it still works. Circa 1930s??

The Bell and Howell was an upgrade for him many years later. I think the "Special Electric Eye" is broken, there is something with a wire attached loose in the viewfinder.

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Here are a few more from my collection. I don't know much about these, I either picked them up at rummage sales over the years or they were given to me.

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LowTechMan wrote:
Here are a few more from my collection. I don't know much about these, I either picked them up at rummage sales over the years or they were given to me.

The one below appears to me to be the oldest one in my collection.
On the back it says. "Eastman Kodak Use Film 120"
I can't see a model number or anything.

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Hi Low tech man, I remember my grand parents actually using a camera like this one, and I'm old. Well, at least I feel old.
The beauty of this one using 120 (Medium format) film, is you can still get film for it if you wanted to try it out.
..........Bruce

Thanks Bruce, that's interesting. Any idea when those were made? Earlier in this thread you asked what format the Kodak 104 used. Excuse my ignorance here, but the negatives were tiny if that's what you mean, maybe 1/2in long. The film was in a plastic cartridge and it actually took pretty crappy pictures. BTW, think positive, say you feel young. I keep trying that, I'll let you know when it works.

Now, more cameras from the collection. I didn't realize I had so many Brownies, jeeze, Kodak wasn't very creative when it came to the camera names.

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They must have made a ton of these, I ended up with two. Wind her up and let her roll!

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When I saw them using this camera, it had to be early to mid sixties, so at a pinch I'd say the camera was probably made between the late fifties to early sixties.

From the description you gave of the film cartridges for the Kodak 104, I'd guess it takes 110 film?

WOW! You have quite a collection there.
........Bruce

Ok my last post here. I promise to stop spamming this thread.......... unless I find more cameras

The first camera below is my old Minolta SRT202. That's the camera that really taught me what you can do with a camera, perhaps even more importantly, it taught me what I wished I could do with a camera. Yes I believe that it taught me a few things. I wish I had time to dig through the boxes of prints, there are photos of everything from burning houses to escaped circus elephants running on the streets. It got me a free ride in the police car to follow the rampaging elephants when the cop thought I was with the newspaper.

The biggest lesson I learned was to ALWAYS have your camera ready!

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LowTechMan - those are some very interesting cameras. I know that I've seen similar over the years, but all the old ones seem to be gone.

I find the Falcon camera particularly interesting - looks to be about late '40's to early '50's vintage. It reminds me of some of the older electric equipment that I've worked on and that is still in service today. Maybe its just the manufacturer name, "Utility Manufacturing" that took my mind in that direction.

Anyway, nice stuff.

Wow. All these immaculate well cared for clean cameras and here I am to post mine.

This was my dad's Canon Ftb that he bought while he was in the military. When I took photography in high school he gave it to me and it was my film camera for years. Now it sadly just sits on a bookshelf collecting dust. I plan on going back and taking some photography classes again so perhaps it'll get some use. It's old and beat up but it still works like it was new though.

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