How old is your camera?

[benno]

I'm sure there's already a similar thread, but have you actually thought about how old your camera really, really is? 50 years old doesn't sound that old until...

I found some photos that my grandfather took with the Leica M3 that I now shoot with when it was brand new.

This is my dad and uncle, early 60s some time:

 

[benno]

And this one is me, early 80s ;-)

 

[Sonny Boy Havidson]

"Your camera"... Well, which one ?
- Leica III f, 1953
- Agfa Isolette II, 50's
- Minolta Hi-Matic 7s, lets say 1968
- Minolta SRT 101, lets say 1968 also
- Semflex Semi-Oto (French Rolleicord), 1964
- others...

 

[lmd91343]

I have a ~100yo kodak somewhere around here. I have some FSU barnack clones from the '30s and '50s. I have Canons from the '50s, '60s, 70s, 80s, and 90's. I have Pentax cameras from the 60's, 70s, and 2 years ago. I have a 1946 Ziess SI A, a 1946 Kodak medalist II, an undated Kodak Retina IIA, an AGFA from about 1945, and a couple of Polaroids from ~1962.

 

[Keith]

This is my oldest camera ... my 1930 Leica 1a. Recently CLA'd by Youxin Ye! 🙂

 

[charjohncarter]

'Your Camera' (my camera) is my Leica IIIf with the 50mm Elmar. I have many older and many about the same age, but this is 'my camera.' I bought it with great angst (short cash angst) in 1963, and have used it ever since, though the SLR craze, though the auto everything craze, and now though the digital craze. It has always been there with film in it. I've had it CLA'd twice. I'm not like your wonderful grandfather, I never wrote anything down. By the way, he gave you a real legacy, cherish it.

 

[FPjohn]

of their era

of their era

Hello:

I suppose you refer to rangefinder 35mm cameras:

111b 1939 september - october

M3 1959

M4 1974

M6 1985

each is of its era. The IIIb was purchased from a fine gentleman who had survived the camps.

The M3 and the IIIb are most frequently used.

yours
FPJ

 

[thirteen]

IIIc - 1949
Werra 1 - 1955
M2 - 1962
Konica Auto S2 - 1965
Minolta XGM - 1980's
Ricoh GR1s - 1999
Canon 40d - 2007
Panasonic Z5 - 2008

Still adding - looking for at least one camera per decade.

 

[NickTrop]

Iskra 1960? Wow, my oldest camera is a "baby" in these parts. 🙂

 

[colyn]

This is my eldest A 1936 vintage IIIa. Actually I have 2- 36 vintage IIIa's..

 

[caperunner]

My oldest is a Contax II 1937. 71 years old.

 

[OldNick]

My oldest, and my first 35mm, is a Leica III, 1935, which was factory-converted to a IIIa, and later had a baseplate flash synch added by Leitz N.Y. I have owned it since 1952.

Jim N.

 

[35mmdelux]

MP-2003

M6- 1997

Hasselblad 501CM - 2000

Kwok 4x5 - new

hopefully I can break this stuff in and talk about it 25 years from now. Best -- P.

 

[nikon_sam]

My oldest would be an Olympus 35-S born around 1957...

 

[furcafe]

My oldest camera is a Zeiss Ikon Super Nettel from around 1934.

 

[Avotius]

My old camera, a Kodak 3A pocket camera from 1907

And some pictures taken with it:

 

[Ronald_H]

Oldest?

In this company a humble 45 years, Leica M2.

And a lot of early eighties 'junk' (to most other people, not me), Nikon FM, 2 FE's, EM and a FED-5.

But it would be rather nice to own an early Leica II...

 

[amateriat]

Oldest camera I own, period: Dad's Polaroid 95 folder, c. 1958. (Retired; film no longer made.)

Oldest camera I own, still active: Konica Auto S3, purchased used 2007.

Growing old with me: Konica Hexar RFs (2), purchased new 2002.

Newest camera: Holga 135.

In the middle: Konica POP (from eBay, around 2005), Konica Lexio 70 (late 2006), Ricoh GR-1 (2000)., Olympus OM-1 (2000),


- Barrett

 

[Mr_Flibble]

The oldest camera I own is a
Kodak No.2 Autographic Brownie from the 1920s

The oldest rangefinder camera I own is a
Leica III from 1936

Most of my cameras are from between 1936 to 1945

 

[Muggins]

Avotius, that is truly a thing of beauty! It also knocks my battered No2 Folding Pocket Brownie (about 1911) into a cocked hat in tersm of condition.

What's the lens (other than lightning fast, by the standards of its day!), and what do you use in it film-wise?

Adrian