A collection of 3000 cameras...

[Pál_K]

A good story:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-53821146

 

[seany65]

I wonder if he'd ever used any of the ones he collected?

 

[Sonnar Brian]

From the article it sounds like he took a lot of photographs.

Some of the cameras are worth using, but many are thrift store finds. I have a lot of those also, never used them. But at $5 or so, why not have them to display.

 

[hap]

for 5$ you can have a thousand cameras all over the house. or .5 of a Leitz Noctilux 50.

 

[skucera]

I was wondering where all the old Kodaks in Oregon went to... Fife? Who'd have thunk it?

Scott

 

[agentlossing]

I was wondering where all the old Kodaks in Oregon went to... Fife? Who'd have thunk it?

Scott

A good bit of the cameras in Oregon seem to have ended up in someone's huge trailer out in the woods here on the south coast... a few months ago I got a message from someone I know telling me this yard sale had a ton of cameras. I drove out to the place, a mile or two up a windy gravel road into the woods, and lo and behold a virtual tarp city of stuff was spread out, some of it in the mud, in the space where a couple of trailers used to be. There were dozens of cameras, plenty of small fixed-lens rangefinders, a gold mine... all virtually ruined by the dampness, mildew and fungus that comes from sitting for probably decades in a rotting trailer. It was truly sad - I bought a boxful of the better ones, but none of the meters work, all the glass is covered in fungus.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I know. Since we moved to Canada, junk just keeps on accumulating in the house.

 

[raid]

From the article it sounds like he took a lot of photographs.

Some of the cameras are worth using, but many are thrift store finds. I have a lot of those also, never used them. But at $5 or so, why not have them to display.

“He went on many trips on his own because he was only interested in being behind the camera, his wife says.“