> On 12 Dec 2021, at 23:42, [email protected] wrote: > > Godfrey's mention of his ancient cameras leads me to wonder who else likes > collecting these engineering beauties? > I'll start with a Rolleicord from 1955, a Fed 4L from 1969, and of course an > SV from 1967. Of no great quality, to say the least, I inherited from my > mother a number of box cameras, some branded as Kodak and others not. One I > think I have dated to 1926, would still work, and it was made in England! > > John in Brisbane
Most of us are of an age when the cameras we bought new are now vintage… What is your 1926 English camera? Somewhere in the family we have my father’s camera which he bought used in 1956 for the Melbourne Olympics - it was twenty years old at the time. An Agfa of some sort, very difficult to use. My oldest is a 1958 Leica M3. Not particularly old by Leica standards. After that it’s the MX I bought new in 1979, which brings me back to the first sentence… -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
