Vintage film cameras

[yokohama]

I hide the cameras from the wife. She sees the boxes arrive but doesn't know what they are.

Kenzie - I guess that's the printer. I just can't get my head round how they work.

[Kenzie]

I don't hide mine, think it would be bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqYgpWPBT2o

This is the printer I have, just got the filament spool and hood to go. Taken nearly two years as a part-work.

Yoko, as if we would encourage you to buy that wonderfully complete branded Minolta camera set. You have a 300 but not the 370s.

I know this is a film thread mostly, but if anyone wants a DSLR then this might go cheap due to badly spelled title:

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[johnnyrod]

My wife's Kindle jones is another story! At least the house isn't a fire hazard from the tons of paper any more.

Re. the course - I believe it's free but you can pay $50 if you want a certificate - that's what it said on the Rangefinder forum where I saw the link.

[yokohama]

Good spot Kenzie. Are you going to bid on the Olpus? 99p, no reserve and no watchers.

The Minolta is still available. I emailed ...just out of curiosity! The 2 lenses are meant to be among Minolta's better offerings so I'm tempted.

[johnnyrod]

The mystery camera arrived today, it's fairly grubby alright but fully working and the lenses aren't too bad. The word is "Errtee" which means Romain Talbot, a German who sold cameras under his own brand (RT) but looks likely to have been a Foth design, or possibly Welta (think Kenzie guessed this earlier). No idea of age, anywhere from 1929 to 1950. The Cassar lens shouldn't be a bad one, f2.9 so good for the time. It's a bit tinny compared to other folders but the struts pop out very easily. No idea of price as I can't find another one. It might be called Trixie but then again might not. There seems to have been one on Ebay but the listing is all but gone even to my skillz - all I can dig up is it went for £16 in January.

[Kenzie]

Wow, I would never have guessed that name! Yoko, remember what they say about curiosity!
Got this in the post today



Can't think of many more I want but never say never as GAS can be hard to ignore. Will keep an eye on the Olpus but I do have a D3200 that struggles to get a look in with all my film gear. Mostly use it to photo the oldies!

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[johnnyrod]

You've got something like that already haven't you? A Smena perhaps?

[Kenzie]

The Zorki 10 (I have two) was based on this one. Didn't realise it was fixed focus, thought it was a rangefinder.

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[yokohama]

A delivery for me today too. Received the package from Aki Asahi. Very good service - posted in Nagoya on Saturday.
For some reason I got 2 skins instead of one. A blue one and a kind of weird snakeskin black and brown one. Don't know which one to use but it will keep me busy on a rainy day next week.

[Kenzie]

Got a pic? looking to reskin the fx-d but not sure if black or blue would go well with a chrome top.
Should have done my research. The Ricoh Auto 35 is zone focus and the Ricohmatic is the rangefinder.

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