Technically I only need the lens for my DSLR, but hey...Forty dollars got me an entire camera for the cost of this lens on eBay! Yes, it's a "kit" lens on a consumer camera. But it's also a good filler lens that cost a truckload less than pro glass that would leave me...
Two bucks on eBay! This is pure plastic (not Bakelite), and uses 127 film. It takes half-size photos; the two red film windows on the back line up the frame. The first window on the right is where the shooter lines up the exposure number before hitting the shutter. Then...
Picked up this gem at a camera swap meet last weekend for $15, along with some others. The “No. 4″ folding camera was made in 1949 by Spartus. The No. 4 takes 120 medium-format film, and takes eight shots per roll. The camera looks more complicated than it actually is;...
I've been chasing a ghost. My Holga 120N - after three years of use - got loose enough inside that the film was flopping its way through the camera. No tension at all. Why? The cheapo foam installed on each side had finally worn away, and the film just rolled through...
A few months ago I bought a Pentax K1000 with a jammed 50mm lens, at Goodwill for $8.00. About a week after that I picked up a K-Mount 35-70mm zoom lens off eBay for $25.00; I didn't want to spend a lot of money on it, because I wasn't sure if the camera would even work...
The details in the landscape and the sky are amazing. Despite being black & white, the richness of the expanse in front of the photographer really comes out. Photo was taken by the late Nick DeWolf while on a trip with his wife. Check out his entire archive on Flickr...
It's nice when the electronics bins at Goodwill produce something with character, like this clear green Samsung self-winding point & shoot. It has a 30mm lens which could make it a nice shooter outside in close quarters. Bonus points for the fact that it works when betteries...
For the first time in four decades, this "Baby Rollei" tasted film. Back in the 1960s the Yashica 44LM Twin Lens Reflex here got used a lot. I have a treasure trove of slides and prints in the family archives, taken with the camera shown above. But my mother-in-law...
Article is Co-Posted at Wall Of Retro This pensive pose by a Paris model comes to you courtesy of a photographer I had never heard of. In fact, it was like an act of Congress to find anything good - in English - about Willem van de Poll (1895 - 1970). He studied photography...
