Vintage photo ads - you folks will love this ...

[dmr]

Just stumbled on this one ...

Surf here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nesster/sets/72157594578815656/

Enjoy. 🙂

 

[jgwong]

These are great, thanks for sharing!

 

[CK Dexter Haven]

A few of these were directly responsible for my Teenage Gear Lust:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nesster/3976864132/in/album-72157594578815656/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nesster/3636663623/in/album-72157594578815656/

Wish i could find the Minolta ad or brochure that kept me up at night.....

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Amazing, thanks for sharing!

 

[dmr]

Amazing, thanks for sharing!

You're very welcome. 🙂

What I was happy and surprised to find among these is an ad for the first "real camera" I ever had, the Mamiya-Sekor SD rangefinder.

This is the first print ad I ever recall seeing for the camera. The one I once had, and the one I currently have, are slightly different. The one in the ad has the f1.5 lens and mine (both of them) the f1.7.

Years (decades) ago I sold my original one when I "went SLR" and back in 2004 I was doing some shooting in limited light and realized that the SLAP of the mirror was costing me at least one f-stop. I then realized that a rangefinder would be better tool for the job and wished I had never sold mine. This led me on a quest to find another one, which led me to RFF in 2005.

I did get a very good working one (pictured above), which in fact is sitting right on the desk right in front of me and still in great shape. It's kind of a frankencamera, with some of the better pieces of two of them.

Even though I've {blush - ducking and hiding } "gone digital" mostly, I still do film semi-regularly and I've used the SD for some semi-serious work at least once a year. In my not so humble opinion, the lens on the SD performs better in low-light high-contrast situations than that of the Canon GIII, which is probably the most popular fixed-lens RF among the users here.

 

[Rhodes]

Thank you, love this kind of ads!

 

[goamules]

Definitely worth spending some time remembering how important photography was for generations.

 

[Ljós]

Even though we lived in Germany, we subscribed to National Geographic during my childhood. Lots of great essays and photoseries in NG... and lotsa camera ads! Sure made an impression on young impressionable me ;-)

 

[jsrockit]

I used to look at old photo mags in college... on microfiche. I saw a lot of these ads. It's been 20 years since I've seen them again! Thanks.