The LF Camera you have owned the longest and still do.

[Drew Bedo]

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Kodak 2-D: Bougght for a song during the Hay-day of the Houston Camera Show around 1992. Has the sliding tripod block but not the extension rail. Wish it had the extra rail. I have learned to work without front tilt.

Later in the '90s, I disassembled it as far as I could and did a gentle refinish. My attitude is that we cannot actually own them. We are merely stewards of these fine old cameras, keeping thim in good shape for their next "owner".

thinking about this a day or so later I realize that the 2-d is only the 2nd oldest.

The first LF in my life and still in the cabnet is an early Pre=Annaversary Graphic. I got it at one of the first camera shows I ever went to during the mid eighties in Houston. It has been re built or re-created by someone who salvaged a junker by gutting the shutter and removing all leather and other hardware (leather covering handle strap finder and RF etc) The holes in the body have bondo filling them. The bellows were replaced I think and the wood painted black inside and out. I replaced the spring back with a Graflok (they were surplis-cheap then().

I took the first images with that bellows-on-a-box by mounting a 135mm zeis tessar on a dial set compur shutter.

stilll have this set-up in a cabnet at home.

[graywolf]

1952 Crown Graphic, I've had it a couple of decades.
Toyo 45G, I've had it a couple of months (grin).

[Peter Gomena]

Zone VI 4x5 bought new in 1990.

Oldest old camera I owned the longest is a Seneca Black Beauty 5x7.

Peter Gomena

[cjbroadbent]

Me and my souped-up 4x5 reflex with custom bellows for a 360mm Stella. It had been adapted for modern film-holders. The shutter is now broken, and so am I.

[Howard Tanger]

I purchased a Calumet CC-400 in the early 1970's. Some forty years ago. Still own it.
Howard Tanger

[Ari]

Were the 70s really forty years ago?
Crap, feels like yesterday.

Christopher, you're looking pretty stylin'!

[Scott Squires]

Toyo-View 45AII. Purchased it in 1997 and it is still my 4x5 camera of choice! Build like a tank and easy to use!

[Michael Clark]

A 4x5 speed graphic bought in 1968 for $150. Came with a case, flash gun, 3 or 4 film holders and 127mm lens. Payed for it working at local store as a box boy,$1.50 a hour, that a lot of bags of grocery's for a camera. Still enjoy using it once in a while.

Mike

[livan]

I still have an 8x10 Gowland which I got early in the 90s and it still is with me and working well for the time being.

Would actually pay to see the other collections people still have with them and true enough, that would be something that would take my interest, in whatever is being sought as fit.

A local thrift store actually still has a huge collection in them.

[jchesky]

My first was a Speed graphic. Still own and shoot with it. Love barrel lenses.