Old equipment

Andy90 · 19 Jun 2009 at 12:01

The recent thread entitled 'Camera Porn' got me thinking. I suspect most of us have graduated to Digital, but I'm sure we all have our old Camera either collecting dust or actually still being used today. So how about some pics of some old stuff

I'll kick off with my trusty Canon T90, which I purchased 22 years ago with my very first paypacket. Still works. Designed by Colani and built like a tank (indeed this was its nickname). You can certainly see how it evolved into the EOS range

PESolution · 19 Jun 2009 at 12:18

SLR's must be one of the few technologies to have hardly changed whatsoever visually in 20 years (or more)

njj1046 · 19 Jun 2009 at 13:48

I borrowed my uncles T70 in the early 90's, before I bought a decent camera of my own. Needless to say I didn't want to give it back at the time

diverse180 · 19 Jun 2009 at 15:34

Andy90 said:
Designed by Colani and built like a tank (indeed this was its nickname).[/IMG]

That's not a tank!...THIS is a TANK!

It's my Polaroid 600 SE (one of my favourite cameras that I own)

diverse180 · 19 Jun 2009 at 15:37

And here's a pic of my trusty Lomo LCA

Btw, great thread Andy!

Raikiri · 19 Jun 2009 at 16:16

Only old bit of camera gear in the house

Derek W · 19 Jun 2009 at 17:12

Heres my old Canon EOS 650 with kit lens along with the kit lens from my dads old canon EOS 5D.

Worryingly the cameras still got a film in it! Dunno what on earth it would have on it though as its been packed away for almost 10 years. :eek:

syke · 19 Jun 2009 at 17:23

Got an old SLR somewhere, but not got pics of it. Probably a few other old bits too.

Andy90 · 19 Jun 2009 at 18:15

Raikiri said:
Only old bit of camera gear in the house

That's a nice looking bit of kit Raikiri. I've actually found out a little bit about it too, its a Samoca 35 which was produced by a company called Sanei Sangyō K.K of Japan. They manufactured cameras under the Samoca brand. Apparently they manufactured cameras from 1952 to 1962. I've even found a manual for it here!

I've just had a brainwave, apart from posting pictures of old cameras you have, how about using this thread to identify old bits of kit and perhaps try to find instruction manuals etc. Most would probably give excellent pictures even today, though I suspect for some it might be a problem finding film cassettes etc.

diverse180 · 19 Jun 2009 at 20:47

Here's another from my collection, my Polaroid 100

Still works pretty well

diverse180 · 19 Jun 2009 at 20:55

I'm loving the Yashica Mat-124G Syke!

The Samoca 35 looks like a cool little camera too Raikiri

diverse180 · 19 Jun 2009 at 21:00

Just found the manual for the Mat-124G:

http://www.butkus.org/chinon/yashica/yashica_mat124g/yashica_mat_124g.htm

Raymond Lin · 19 Jun 2009 at 21:10

PESolution said:
SLR's must be one of the few technologies to have hardly changed whatsoever visually in 20 years (or more)

The actual mechanics of the camera hasn't changed for about 100 years !

syke · 19 Jun 2009 at 21:25

diverse180 said:
I'm loving the Yashica Mat-124G Syke!

The Samoca 35 looks like a cool little camera too Raikiri

Yeah, gonna try it out more soon

diverse180 said:
Just found the manual for the Mat-124G:

http://www.butkus.org/chinon/yashica/yashica_mat124g/yashica_mat_124g.htm

Still got the original one!

diverse180 · 19 Jun 2009 at 22:56

Cool

A.N.Other · 20 Jun 2009 at 13:22

All my old camera gear was sold off about 3 years ago.

Canon AE-1, 70-300, 2x teleconverter, flash, remote release, standard prime, filters and large metal briefcase for it all. Also sold a broken Olympus OM-1 (shutter mechanism got stuck half way up when fired) to see if anyone could fix it, but I didn't hear back from the buyer.

MikeHunt79 · 22 Jun 2009 at 22:53

I was tidying up today, and found my first camera - an Omo Cosmic Symbol:

Anyone know anything about these?

Mr Jones · 22 Jun 2009 at 23:36

My 'old' toy...

Andy90 · 23 Jun 2009 at 11:11

MikeHunt79 said:
I was tidying up today, and found my first camera - an Omo Cosmic Symbol:

Anyone know anything about these?

Manual for the Cosmic Symbol can be downloaded from this page

http://www.butkus.org/chinon/cosmic_symbol/cosmic_symbol.htm

Doing a quick search on the Internet seems to show that it was made by Lomo and is Russian.

MikeHunt79 · 23 Jun 2009 at 13:19

Andy90 said:
Manual for the Cosmic Symbol can be downloaded from this page

http://www.butkus.org/chinon/cosmic_symbol/cosmic_symbol.htm

Doing a quick search on the Internet seems to show that it was made by Lomo and is Russian.

Thanks, I've done some searching (for Lomo instead of omo this time

) and it does look like a bit of an oddball. Cosmic Symbol is great name tho!