valdas
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The second one screams “from Russia with love”, just Sean Connery is missing…
The Magazine Camera Ads
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Muggins
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Apart from the county badge (I was an Essex Cub Scout, but a Kent Scout), and the green scarf (mine was yellow), that pretty much is my Cub Scout uniform! Though I wonder about a Sixer with just one proficiency badge...
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Timmyjoe
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My mom was a commercial artist for a department store back in the 1940's and I remember cleaning out the basement thirty years later and finding her illustrations of products that were used in print ads. It always amazed me that they didn't use photos of the products, but she could draw photo-realistically. Many of these illustrated camera ads remind me of her work.
Best,
-Tim
Best,
-Tim
p.giannakis
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I was more impressed by the calligraphy of those ads, it really draws my attention when I see it. You can also figure out the era based on the calligraphy of the ad.
JeffS7444
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I'd be most curious to see examples of advertisements aimed at domestic consumers in the USSR, DDR and PRC. So far, I've found FED pocket calendars, and am aware of English-language posters issued by Foreign Economic Association Mashpriborintorg (Внешнеэкономическое объединение Машприборинторг), and commemorative matchbox labels issued by LOMO, Meopta, and and at least one set devoted to products of Zavod Arsenal.
p.giannakis
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This might help:
valdas
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well, this will be very hard to find. Advertising was almost not present is USSR especially for goods that one would hardly find in any shop. Why advertise things that you can't produce in sufficient quantities to satisfy any demand?
mconnealy
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I found a bound copy of the twelve 1939 issues of Popular Photography at a library sale. The ads made it worthwhile to take home. There were full-page ads from the big names like Kodak and Leica. The photography featured and the cover shots were almost uniformly atrocious. Each issue did have an article about the work of some well known photographer, and some of the articles and ads were interesting because of what they showed of popular topics of the era.
valdas
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This is a great collection of Soviet Photography magazines! But as I suspected, there is no advertising (I browsed through 5 or 6 issues) - only photography, articles, technical data, history, etc. It started to appear in 90this, when the market economy was allowed and imported good started to flow in. And surely, nobody advertised Zenit during that period…This might help:
p.giannakis
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Some Contax goodiness...
valdas
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I have this one (camera, not the poster) and I love it!
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p.giannakis
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Contax is one of those systems that I always loved but never got into. Now I mostly own Nikons and Olympus so I can't afford getting into the Contax system 😫
p.giannakis
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I did have this one though
Great lens ! But it had a couple of gremlins (exposure meter not great, going to sleep after a few seconds and not waking up easily) that made me sell it. I regret now.
Great lens ! But it had a couple of gremlins (exposure meter not great, going to sleep after a few seconds and not waking up easily) that made me sell it. I regret now.
valdas
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This one is lovely, but at some point I bought Minolta TC-1 and invested into repair, so now I am refraining from buying additional not so cheap P&S.
Archiver
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I heard a horror story this year: my local pushers er dealers had a black Contax T3. They sold it for some crazy money like $3500 AUD. But it developed faults and became inoperable, and couldn't be repaired. They took a loss on it, and no longer take those cameras. Touch wood, my T3 is still working fine, but I baby it and only shoot with it occasionally.
valdas
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This was the reason I sold my trusty T2. I was afraid it would brick one day.
JeffS7444
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What a pretty camera! But if there's a ribbon cable connecting the rear door, and another serving the lens, I'd expect to replace both at some point. I think Fujifilm in particular was no stranger to the planned obsolescence game
ChrisPlatt
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I sold several high-dollar value electronic film cameras about ten years ago as I believe they will become unsustainable.
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The ads that I loved were the big full page ads that were posted by the big mail order houses. I'd dream for hours over them.
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