crappiest camera and lens what did you do with it?

[jnantz]

we all have them, im not talking the $10,000 ebony with a Schneider XXL ... but the opposite
a peeled Moroccan leather, rusty parts, leaky bellows (with peeling tape to fix the leaks ),
lenses that are scratched, separated, loose, moldy-barn-finds ...
you probably already know what I am talking about .. a real piece of junk .. what's yours? did you use it? (and secretly like the results)?

[BrianShaw]

we all have them, im not talking the $10,000 ebony with a Schneider XXL ... but the opposite
a peeled Moroccan leather, rusty parts, leaky bellows (with peeling tape to fix the leaks ),
lenses that are scratched, separated, loose, moldy-barn-finds ...
you probably already know what I am talking about .. a real piece of junk .. what's yours? did you use it? (and secretly like the results)?

Great topic! For me it is a 1930’s era Kodak Duo 620. The one I got off of eBay was inexpensive but beat up and reeked of WD-40!in the shutter. Once it was aired out and the smell dissipated, it has become one of my most favorite user cameras. Not quite a piece of junk, though, and not LfF either.

[Peter Mounier]

I somehow inherited a Canon AE-1 with a nail through the prism. Obviously beyond repair, I decided to have some fun with it while doing a Zone System test.

[xkaes]

I somehow inherited a Canon AE-1 with a nail through the prism. Obviously beyond repair, I decided to have some fun with it while doing a Zone System test.

Not the first Napoleonic camera (AKA, "BLOWN APART").

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1605199825

[Kevin Crisp]

My first "real" camera -- and it almost doesn't qualify as that -- was an Exa Jr. of my father's which I found in the front hall closet. It is hard to say anything good about it, but it got me hooked on photography and darkroom work. No reflex finder, so you had to look down through the pop up hood at a ground glass. The shutter speeds, such as they were, were controlled by a lever that looked like what the conductor would use to release the brakes on a cable car. As I recall, they maxed out at a modest 1/150. You could find tune that by pulling the lever back and getting either 1/125 or 1/100th.

When if proved essentially useless for working on the school paper I got my hands on an original Pentax Spotmatic. (Just like Ringo.) Superb ergonomics with a viewfinder that was hardly state of the art but my eyes were better then.

[Pete Oakley]

Coming over here nocking our beer mats, it's a disgrace.

[Tin Can]

I don't buy junk

I buy CHEAP

Yashica A X 2

shot right out my front door not a pose

Girl on bike_Original (Edited) by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr

[Michael R]

Sharpness bourgeois bla bla fuzzy concept la la la boop dee doop.

[paulbarden]

Sharpness bourgeois bla bla fuzzy concept la la la boop dee doop.

I need a camera that does that! LOLOLOL

[BrianShaw]

I need a camera that does that! LOLOLOL

I’ve got just the camera for you. Actually, all you need is one of my M42 lenses!