Amateur photographer and camera collector.
Although I have always been interested in cameras, I developed an interest in old cameras about 8 years ago and have been collecting some of the cameras that I like best ever since.
My collection consists of the following:
Adox Sport (early version)
Adox Sport (final version)
Agfa Super Isolette - a cracking camera!
*Agfa Billy Compur (1935) - two of
*Agfa Speedex with Solinar lens
Balda Baldina (non working)
Boots Beirette (my Dad had one, so I lashed out and spent 99p on buying myself one too!)
Certo Six with Zeiss Tessar/Synchro Compur shutter
Chinon 35EE (Konica C35 clone)
Ensign Selfix 16/20 Model 1
FED 5c (NOS)
FED 1 with FED 50mm f3.5 collapsible lens
Franka Solida lllE with Schneider Radionar 80mm f2.9 lens - these are really nice and take great pictures
Franka Solida llE with Schneider Xenar 80mm f3.5 lens - these are really nice and take great pictures too
Franka Rolfix llE with Rodenstock Trinar 105mm f3.5 lens/Synchro Compur
Hapo 66E
Kiev 4A with Jupiter 8M
Konica Auto S3
Leica M2 (2 of)
Lubitel 166B
Olympus 35SP (didn't like, now sold)
Olympus OM-20 SLR (with Zuiko 28mm/f3.5 and 50mm/f1.8 lenses)
Olympus Pen D (half frame)
Olympus Mju Zoom - this was my cheapest purchase, as I only had to pay the starting price, which was 1 penny, even though it works perfectly
Pentax ME Super - lovely!
Pentax KX (much better than the K1000 and cheaper because nobody knows about it)
Nikon FM2n (NOS)
Voigtlander Vito CL (Color Skopar model)
Voigtlander Vitomatic lla
Voigtlander Vitomatic lllb (with Ultron 50mm f2 lens)
Voigtlander Perkeo l
Voigtlander Perkeo l l
YashicaMat 124G (now sold)
*Zeiss Ikon Box Tengor
Zeiss Ikon Nettar 518/2 6x9 Folding Camera
Zeiss Ikonta 524/2 with f3.5 Novar
Zeiss Ikonta 524/2 with f4.5 Novar
Zeiss Super Ikonta 531A with Jena Tessar (1937)
*Zeiss Super Ikonta lll (531/16) with f3.5 Tessar
* = recently acquired
Cameras I have owned in the past:
Kodak Cresta ll (still got)
Instamatic Camera (still got)
Zenith E (second hand) - I learnt the photographic basics with this!
Pentax K1000
Canon EOS 10
Canon EOS 50e
Minolta Dynax 5
I also have some digital cameras but they aren't as much fun:
Canon EOS 650D (sold), replaced by:
Fujifilm X-T2 replaced by X-T3
Olympus Pen E-P1 (sold)
Panasonic TZ3 (which has already stopped working!!)
Sony DSC-RX100 (a little gem of a camera)
I intend to add to my collection gradually.
Some of these cameras have just needed a good clean and some have needed much more - all of which has been great fun doing!
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Thank you so much for your knowledge, and generosity in providing some guidance for those of us lucky enough to own an Agfa Super Isolette and foolhardy enough to attempt to do our own work on them. Your instructional images for removing the top plate and cleaning the rangefinder elements, are really top notch.