| Old Cameras I
have always enjoyed photography. The act of capturing special moments,
beautiful light, places or objects is something that appeals to
me and many others. Since childhood, I had cameras, ranging from
12mm back in the 70s, compact 35mm in the 80s and my first SLR in
1986 - a Yashica FX2 with extension tubes for macro photography.
I took many shell pictures with it until I got a NIKON FM2 that
I slowly stopped using after purchasing my first digital camera,
a Nikon Coolpix 950.
On my honeymoon in 1998, I visited an antique
shop in Santa Barbara, CA and bought two old cameras to decorate
my office, a Polaroid 80A and a Agfa Optima both from the 50s. When
I got divorced in 2003, I decided to change the decoration of my
apartment, so I moved the cameras there and acquired quite a few
others on ebay for display in a showcase. I carefully cleaned each
camera and tried to repair them whenever possible (not an easy task...).
I also searched the Internet to learn about their history and tested
some of them with reasonably good results.
Due to space limitations, I slowed my purchases
(a well known occurrence for many collectors) and now I just check
ebay from time to time for new ones or occasionally receive one
as a gift from friends.
| #1 comment by Ricardo Guerrini on 30/04/2007 | | Dear Marcus
You have a very nice collection of old cameras,congratulations!
Amazing the fact tha you found family pictures in one of them!
I suggest you to try in the web to find this family,how?no idea but we can try something like "mistery family" do you know them??
would be very interesting!Probably they are imigrants in Brazil?
Who knows,lets see..... |
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