"back in the day"

[W.Y.Photo]

That's not far enough back for me. Try this:

Joe

That contaflex ad would be a good thing to show to all the current SLR naysayers!!

 

[annamaria]

View attachment 95255 My FIRST SLR was a Zeiss Ikon Contaflex, with 45mm f/2.8 Pantar lens. I bought it from Wall St. camera's used department! It had a non-instant return mirror, and interlocking shutter speed and f/stops coupled to an external, selenium-cell, match-needle metering system. It had an interlens (aka leaf) shutter that went up to 1/500 second. Here's an old photo of it made maybe a decade ago. I was in 7th grade when I bought this thing with money I had earned splitting oak firewood for an elderly lady named Mrs. Middleton. She gave me 50 cents per paper sack full of split wood, and she wanted it split into small, kitchen trash-burner type stove thickness pieces...wow...what a PITA that was. The princely sum of $59.95 was just about THE cheapest used SLR I could mail-order from Popular Photography magazine.

I enjoyed reading this Derrel

 

[minicoop1985]

What, no Hasselblads? Come on now.

 

[Ysarex]

What, no Hasselblads? Come on now.

My first blad was a 1959 vintage 500C like this:

 

[timor]

Check the prices here.

 

[minicoop1985]

What, no Hasselblads? Come on now.

My first blad was a 1959 vintage 500C like this:

Mine was a still functional 1600f circa 1952, but that thing died a few moths ago. Gotta love these things.

 

[Gary A.]

Yankee made crap stuff.

Here's my first Hasselblad at work:

500 C/M w/ 80mm

 

[Patrice]

That's not far enough back for me. Try this:

Joe

I still have, and occasionally use a Contaflex. Feels like it's carved from a solid block of metal. I run some film through all my old cameras once or twice a year simply to keep them functioning properly. I've never had one seize up yet.