My camera/lens of the year I was born

[HuubL]

My year of birth and looking better than I do 😁

 

[Rayt]

I quote Indiana Jones: It’s the mileage not the years honey

 

[Pioneer]

Cool looking camera.

My birth year camera is a simple little Agfa Silette, but it has been in the family for a long time. The little triplet lens does a very good job. It started having occasional hiccups cocking the shutter reliably when I advance the film a few months ago. It happens more in colder weather so I have not used it now for a few weeks. I have made some inquiries about getting it cleaned and serviced so I hope I can get it back in service again soon.

 

[ChrisPlatt]

I have a Pentax H3 (S3) from 1961. I'm looking for late production Canon P made in that same year. I have given up on ever being able to afford a 1961 Leica M2.

Chris

 

[Retro-Grouch]

I'm from 1952; my closest camera is a 1954 Rolleiflex 3.5-B from '54. It's just recently had a CLA and performs flawlessly. What's the equivalent of a CLA for an old guy, 'cause I sure want one!

 

[former member]

The SN on this M3DS puts it within weeks of when I was born.



The lens on it is older.

 

[shawn]

Body is the same year as my body. I don't have a lens of the same year, at least not yet. What is kind of interesting is the body was built 2 years before the 50th anniversary.

 

[wlewisiii]

I do have a Pentax H1a that could qualify but I almost never use it - that view finder is dim.

But I could find a nice 1963 made F, plain prism & a matching 1963 50/2 easily enough. Or a really late Nikon SP and pretend it was made in 63 (there is a little wiggle room on exactly when production ended from what I'm seeing online 😉 )

 

[Tim Murphy]

Dear Board,

I was born in June of 1960. My grandfather's 1961 Nikon F s/n 644xxx with a 5.8cm f1.4 Nikkor S came out of Japan a few months later. That's as close as I'll ever come. 😉

I have his camera, and it still works and gets used annually at least.

Regards,

Tim Murphy

Harrisburg PA 🙂

IMG_20231223_205155_HDR by Tim Murphy, on Flickr

 

[petronius]

Some time after meeting my wife her father gave me his fathers Contaflex Super B that was produced (finished) in the first half of 1964, as I am.

 

[valdas]

I have two of them - Kiev and then M4.

 

[Myrrys.eu]

Mine is Nikon FG-20 with 35mm f2 AI-s, both from 1984. Amazing performers and great camera to use. Although I haven't put a roll through it since last summer. Actually got it from my father who bought it the year I was born. It's my second camera after receiving Olympus 35RC from my father when I was 4 years old (still got that little camera that really could).

 

[Rayt]

I have several Rolleiflex 2.8 and 3.5 E3 models and they were released from 1962 to 1965 so close enough.

 

[Retro-Grouch]

Mine is Nikon FG-20 with 35mm f2 AI-s, both from 1984. Amazing performers and great camera to use. Although I haven't put a roll through it since last summer. Actually got it from my father who bought it the year I was born. It's my second camera after receiving Olympus 35RC from my father when I was 4 years old (still got that little camera that really could).

Really? Amongst the RFF crowd, that camera, and you, are still wet behind the ears! 😉

 

[Myrrys.eu]

I know 😅 eternally 25, quite a few years in a row already. But I must say that fg-20 is pretty much the second favorite film slr I've used, after Nikon fg 🙈 light, compact and good control

 

[CMur12]

I was born in late 1951, and most of the cameras I like came after that (later 1950s to early 1980s).

Maybe a Rolleiflex (as I like TLRs and I like Tessars and Tessar-types) or a Voigtlander folder with a Color Skopar (Tessar-type) would work.

Then again, I wouldn't throw a Voigtlander folder with a Color Heliar back.

- Murray

 

[mconnealy]

I am of the rapidly diminishing pre-war generation. I have quite a few cameras that were in use or in production in the year 1940. That means uncoated lenses and odd formats. One of my favorites of the era is the Kodak Brownie Reflex. It uses 127 film and offers the choice of "I" or "B" shutter settings.

 

[raid]

The Rolleiflex 2.8D. (1955).
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were born in 1955.

 

[neal3k]

Kodak 35 Rangefinder (1945) by Neal Wellons, on Flickr

Not many cameras made in 1945 because of the war but Kodak was making the Kodak 35. This one is from 1945.

 

[Timmyjoe]

I am of the rapidly diminishing pre-war generation. I have quite a few cameras that were in use or in production in the year 1940. That means uncoated lenses and odd formats. One of my favorites of the era is the Kodak Brownie Reflex. It uses 127 film and offers the choice of "I" or "B" shutter settings.

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My late mother was about eight years your senior, and this was the camera she had from the time she was in high school up thru the first years of marriage. I cleaned it up and it still makes decent pictures.

Best,
-Tim