Collectors: camera of your year of birth?

I would really like an M4-P from the year of my birth but it is pretty low on my list of things to get...
 
If I wanted to get a Leica M camera my age, it'd have to be an M6.
Ouch. I wish I had one, though. ;)

barnwulf said:
I have spent a little time looking for one that was made in 1938, but I ended up with a Leica II and a Summar lens that were both made in 1935. I just got the camera back today from DAG with a new shutter curtains and CLA. We are all ready to go. Jim
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How many Leica IIs did you get? :D
 
Originally Posted by FTography
If I wanted to get a Leica M camera my age, it'd have to be an M6.
Ouch. I wish I had one, though.

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Originally Posted by barnwulf
I have spent a little time looking for one that was made in 1938, but I ended up with a Leica II and a Summar lens that were both made in 1935. I just got the camera back today from DAG with a new shutter curtains and CLA. We are all ready to go. Jim
How many Leica IIs did you get?
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One would wonder. I couldn't get this post to load and I guess I hit the Submit Reply button 3 times. I just deleted 2 of them. At least I hope they are gone. Jim
 
I'm born in 1966, and I guess it's the last year of production for the M3.
I had a M3 (lost in the flood of Arles in 2003), but it was a 1957 model.
I don't want a camera from my year of birth, because I'm not a sentimental guy and, most of all, I no more want use film ever! too much boring and complicated! I passed too much time in a dark and wet room in my life! I prefer fresh air and light, and shooting!
My photographic re-birth is around 2003, when I though that digital cameras began to be interesting tools for photography.
So, all what I need is a M9, not a prehistoric stuff!
Actually, I'm a prehistoric guy who loves contemporary tools :)
 
It would seem that 1994 provided us with the... the erm.. quicktake 100

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I have an M4 and Summilux both made the year I was born. I didn't buy them intentionally for this reason, I thought it was an interesting coincidence when I checked out their serial numbers.
 
Not year of birth but for my father's birthday this year (78th) I got him the IIIf and 50mm that he had lusted after in the local camera shop as a teenager at the start of the 50's, bought from Mr Sweeney though this site. I don't think a present I've given has ever gone better! Thanks Brian.
 
I have a Kiev-IIa from my birth year (1957) but I'd rather have a Nikon SP to go with all my great Nikkor and Cosina Voigtlander glass!
 
Shied away from my birth year M4... M5 at a stretch... when i held an M3 and looked through the finder....

Does this mean that my real age is really closer to 50?
 
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Nearest camera to my year of birth (1954) is my Zorki 1e of 1955. I also have a Kodak Duaflex bought in England by my mum that is early 50s. Oh, but my Vito B with 3.5 color skopar is ... No, I've just checked the serial number of the lens, it's 1955...
 
Close but no cigar. My first camera, a Nikon F4, was released in 1988 while my birthday was in 1989. Not sure if the camera is as old as the release date, but it looks like it could be that old.
 
As of today I am the owner of two Nikkormat FTn's with old-style levers, and the FTn's were made from 1967 to 1974.

I was made in 1970 and born in 1971.

Guess the Nikkormats do not have much on me (if anything), it'll do.
 

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