Topic: Junk Store Cameras

[Clive]

http://www.junkstorecameras.com/

[Rik]

There's a few memories there, Clive. 

[Clive]

I thought there might be.   

[Simon]

I still have a Kodak Box somewhere, which an uncle gave me as a kid.   

[sam]

wow - frames! 

[Rik]

Sheet film and loading bags. Happy days. 

[Sandra]

I was searching around a friends house, who is in a nursing home at the moment, for some leads to attach his portable DVD player to the TV in his room.
I was looking through some boxes in a cupboard where he kept his user manuals and accessories for his cameras and AV equipment. I pulled a box out and there was a splicing kit for 8mm film 
That took me back about 30 years or maybe even more, I bet you had your fair share of doing that Rik   

[Rik]

Never got into cine, Sandra, and although I have a camcorder, I don't really use it. I prefer stills, I like to compose and capture moments. In that respect, plate and still cameras produced wonderful quality (we used to re-touch the negs, not the prints), they were slow to use. 6cm cameras were better, but 35mm was best, with the Leica way and above the rest, small, unobtrusive and it made you think about the composition.

[Rodders]

In an uncharacteristic moment of generosity, I donated all my Contax 35mm gear to the charity shop over the road a couple of years ago.  When I enquired a few days later as to how much it fetched, they had no record of it ever being taken into stock.  There are parrots far less sicker than I felt.

[Rik]

It's a problem I often hear of with items being cherry-picked from charity donations.

[Simon]

I wonder who cherry picked through the sacks of old pants I dumped outside the door of the local charity shop a couple of years back? 

[Rik]

 

[Rodders]

I wonder who cherry picked through the sacks of old pants I dumped outside the door of the local charity shop a couple of years back?   

I think we may have found the culprit.

[Rik]

[Clive]

    I remember splicing reel to reel tape as well as cine film.  It used to keep me occupied for hours back in the early 60's.