The Magazine Camera Ads

[Muggins]

Hardly Kodak's or AP's problem.

True! That was a far as I intended to digress, so I'll attempt to stick to topic...

 

[Dralowid]

The Blackburn Roc was something of a failure and retired by 1943. This ad is 1941.
From a censor's point of view it would be a 'safe' pic.

I'll get my coat...

The YMCA 'Snapshots from Home League' insert in the bottom left, tells another story.

 

[CMur12]

I just posted a bunch on Flickr the other day - rather than post them all again, here's a link to them:


The ones I just posted are all from the 1970s, but there are a lot of others in the album if you feel like poking through it.

I remember this ad!

I wanted a Mamiya C330f in the worst way. Starting back in the 1980s, I built up a Mamiya system with a C330f, a C220f, a battered old Mamiyaflex C2, 5 black lenses + one chrome lens, finders, grips, focusing screens, Paramender, etc.

I think these are brilliant cameras, taking more inspiration in their design, as I see it, from large-format view cameras than from Rolleiflex.

The Mamiya C330f and the Minolta Autocord are my favorite TLRs. (Honorable mention goes to the Rolleiflex T.)

- Murray

 

[p.giannakis]

I wonder they didn’t mention the ceramic film pressure plate.

Does the ST have one? I thought only the RTS III had.

 

[p.giannakis]

 

[Out to Lunch]

The TV ads were pretty wild too

 

[santino]

Does the ST have one? I thought only the RTS III had.

The ST lacks the vacuum pump but it is (artificial?) ceramics by Kyoccera.

 

[raydm6]

Remember the Polaroid Swinger?

Polaroid Land Camera Swinger model 20 · Phogulum

Manufacturer Polaroid Model Land Camera Swinger model 20 Year 1965-1970 Manufactured in U.K. Type Instant Film type Polaroid’s 20-Series roll film Lens single-element plastic lens Focus range 0.6...

phogulum.com

 

[johnf04]

 

[johnf04]

 

[p.giannakis]

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I never managed to get a vigorous picture. I need to get a Purma, it seems.

 

[Muggins]

I never managed to get a vigorous picture. I need to get a Purma, it seems.

They seem to have been surprisingly capable for a fixed focus camera - the photographer James Jarche used one for news photos (there's one in the Focal Press guide to Purma cameras, and he's holding one in the photo below with his grandsons - if you can find the documentary referred to, its actually a really good watch, Suchet is a decent photographer).

I've all three models made, the Special (as above) and the Plus are common and cheap (in the UK, anyway - I think you are based here, Pan?) - even if you never shoot it, I'd recommend buying one just to find out how odd they really are. I have a roll of Shanghai GP3 in my Speed right now - that is the rare one, I've only come across one other person who's used one.

I need to stop blathering and find some ads myself...

Perspectives. ITV Documentary..

Being home from Uni for easter means a serious catch up on all those hours of missed television. As I was laying on the sofa yesterday, on ...

visualexploration-sophierabey.blogspot.com

 

[p.giannakis]

even if you never shoot it, I'd recommend buying one just to find out how odd they really are

The local Catherine Hospice shop had one, maybe a couple of years ago - in its box for £50 (if I remember correctly). I didn't buy it - i though too much money for something I wouldn't use often so I passed. I don't know which model it was though - hopefully not the rare one 😐

 

[p.giannakis]

I know we have a few Contax G1 lovers in here...

 

[chuckroast]

My Leica I-IIIf promotional literature showed up. Enjoy the time machine:

 

[valdas]

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EOS300, I paid some 15€ for it some years ago, added 40mm/2.8 pancake lens and it’s a perfect travel companion. I know, it’s somewhat ugly, but it still does the job perfectly at the price which is hard to beat.

 

[p.giannakis]

EOS300, I paid some 15€ for it some years ago, added 40mm/2.8 pancake lens and it’s a perfect travel companion. I know, it’s somewhat ugly, but it still does the job perfectly at the price which is hard to beat.

I had it's successor, the 300v and was a capable camera. 35 zone metering and improved AF. Very small also.

 

[Muggins]

The local Catherine Hospice shop had one, maybe a couple of years ago - in its box for £50 (if I remember correctly). I didn't buy it - i though too much money for something I wouldn't use often so I passed. I don't know which model it was though - hopefully not the rare one 😐

For a Speed (looks a bit like a Barnack, in a dark enough room), that would have been a steal. Over the odds for a Special (black bakelite lozenge, ribbed for her pleasure) or a Plus. Almost certainly one of the latter two.

 

[rick oleson]

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Thank God Kodak was just advertising their film

 

[chuckroast]

I remember this ad!

I wanted a Mamiya C330f in the worst way. Starting back in the 1980s, I built up a Mamiya system with a C330f, a C220f, a battered old Mamiyaflex C2, 5 black lenses + one chrome lens, finders, grips, focusing screens, Paramender, etc.

I think these are brilliant cameras, taking more inspiration in their design, as I see it, from large-format view cameras than from Rolleiflex.

The Mamiya C330f and the Minolta Autocord are my favorite TLRs. (Honorable mention goes to the Rolleiflex T.)

- Murray

I have owned all the above, though most were pre-F bodies.

I've bought- and sold them multiple times as my nostalgia waxed and waned 😉

My favorite was- and remains the original Mamiyaflex C2. When paired with a decent later lens, they were every bit as capable as their descendants, albeit with less convenience.

I ended up selling it all when I realized I didn't need a Hasselblad with lenses, a Yashica MAT-124g, and 2 C bodies with 5 lenses. This decision remains open to revision.

(Maybe I'll find a decent Mamiyaflex and reskin it in alligator green ...)