Pictures made with thrift store cameras
I'll start. I have a modest collection of cameras, mostly 135, mostly purchased from thrift stores and junk shops for less than $20. No amazing finds, just a few curiosities. I've run a roll or two of film though most of them that still have film available. Here's one:
Scaffolding. Nov. 2016.
Camera: Bolsey Model B rangefinder (c. 1947) w/ fixed Wollensak 44mm f/3.2
Purchase price: ~$5
Film: Ektar 100, shot using 'Sunny 16'.
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Three images with a 75 cent Diana Camera (on sale -- was $1).
First two are carbon prints, the third is a silver gelatin print. All on Tech Pan, I believe.
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Vaughn
Three images with a 75 cent Diana Camera (on sale -- was $1).
First two are carbon prints, the third is a silver gelatin print. All on Tech Pan, I believe.
New it was $1.00. Used to be sold by street cart vendors and at rodeos and circuses in NYC back in the 50s.
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Agfa Isolette + Tmax100 (Isolette purchased for $25 at an antique store in Germany).
Rodinal: Stand Development
120 film
https://live.staticflickr.com/4842/3...d8183c738f.jpgA Walk along the Aliso Creek by Palenquero Photography, on Flickr
Pentax SV
SMC Tak 55/1.8
Fujifilm Neopan 100 Acros
Perceptol (1+31) 19min @68F
135mm film
https://live.staticflickr.com/4644/3...7e55fc8fea.jpgPILGRIM, Dana Point, California by Palenquero Photography, on Flickr
Spotmatic Blk + SMC Tak 55/1.8
Rollei Retro 80s
TmaxDev
135mm film
https://live.staticflickr.com/4640/3...7517564431.jpgSan Juan Capistrano by Palenquero Photography, on Flickr
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This is a fun thread, and a playful antidote to "My photos would be better if only I had ________." No offense intended.
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C. 1954-57 Voigtlander Vito B w/ fixed Color-Skopar 50mm f/2.8. Scale focus.
Purchased for $10, near-mint condition.
Portra 400
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Nice images so far. Vaughn: how much of those images is light leaks, etc, versus intentional in-camera manipulation?
Philip U.: My idea of fun, anyway. I gravitate toward black cases in thrift stores, junk shops, and antique malls. Impossible to say no if it's $5 or less. And I've rarely passed up a working-ish camera for under $10.
Suspect I'm not alone.
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DDrake
Nice images so far. Vaughn: how much of those images is light leaks, etc, versus intentional in-camera manipulation?...
The carbon prints are direct contacts with no other manipulation (no burning/dodging, etc). The first one is two side-by-side negatives on the roll. The middle one was an accidental double exposure. Both taken on the same day. The negs are about 1 3/4" squares, so they are wonderful little prints.
The enlarged image of Alex was pretty much a straight print -- but I might have burnt the lower left a little. The numbers must have been bleed-though from the film backing paper due to old way-out-of-date film and poor storage. Alex was 12 years old, going on 16, so I like the numbers.
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Great idea!
A couple photos from a Nikon 35AF point-and-shoot that I bought on eBay for $5. Sadly at the end of this canoe trip with some artist friends, the camera got dropped in the water when I was pulling in the canoe and died. And worse, they now sell for 10-15x that price, so no more Nikon p&s for me.
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Two more from the Nikon that my then girlfriend now wife took of me, first with my Nikon SP and second with my first 8x10, a Gundlach from the late 1800s, on old expired color film back in 2012:
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