Our Common Bond

AIRIC · Oct 15, 2006

Cameras!

I have over 60 cameras in my collection and most were used by my family over the years. As most of you know my father and grandfather were also avid photographers and I pretty much have every camera they ever used. Most I have the boxes and instructions for which make them extra unique.

I remember my mother using this camera when I was growing up. Kodak Instamatic 124. I even have a few flash cubes for it.

A very high-quality

all plastic Diana camera

Note to self, clean the cameras first next time :blushing:

My first 3 or 4 cameras were all Practicas and I still have a few around. Great hard working 35mms that I got a lot of mileage out of

Thanks for looking,

Eric

song2006 · Oct 15, 2006

cool. i like all the camera ones and of the ge flash bulb. nice work

newrmdmike · Oct 15, 2006

how fun. speaking of flash, a little trivia for everyone. the old school flashes on old field cameras with the big bulb were what was used as the light sabers base.

AIRIC · Oct 15, 2006

Thanks,

Eric

.Steve · Oct 15, 2006

Wow. Great collection. FWIW, I didn't even keep the box that my D50 came in, and that was only a few weeks ago.

darin3200 · Oct 15, 2006

praktica

Mansi · Oct 16, 2006

wow eric! hats off to you for having kept them with such care...
wonderful series.. and im sure each camera has a special memory attatched to it... thanks a lot for sharing these with us

LaFoto · Oct 16, 2006

My sister started out her photography with a Kodak Instamatic, too

. She got hers in 1967 or so? Might have been then... yes... Nice collection and well put into frames. I like it.
Have you seen my photo of the Rolleiflex, here ?

AIRIC · Oct 16, 2006

LaFoto said:
My sister started out her photography with a Kodak Instamatic, too . She got hers in 1967 or so? Might have been then... yes... Nice collection and well put into frames. I like it.
Have you seen my photo of the Rolleiflex, here ?

Nice, Don't have one of those.

Mansi, Yes, most of the cameras have very special memories for me.

Thanks everyone.

Eric

Alex_B · Oct 16, 2006

you certainly took better pictures of your cameras then i posted recently of mine

I really like no.1 the most!

anua · Oct 16, 2006

what a great collection, Airic!

btw, what is this 'Diana' cam?

Chiller · Oct 16, 2006

Very cool. These are some great lookin pieces man.

Corry · Oct 16, 2006

Woooooow...that would be awesome to get to sit down and look through all those cameras. Neat shots here!

Thanks for sharing them with us!

lostprophet · Oct 16, 2006

great shots but they remind me too much of work :lol:

AIRIC · Oct 17, 2006

anua said:
what a great collection, Airic!

btw, what is this 'Diana' cam?

A Dianna camera is a really cheap plastic 120 camera. I think I have at least two of them around.

This is what I found on a website

"Diana camera is a classic toy camera. A collectible item. It produces weird and dreamy pictures. Dianas have been manifactured somewhere around the 1960's in China. A Holga is the contemporary Diana of toy cameras."

Eric