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General Discussion => Hobbies & Crafts => Topic started by: Clive on January 21, 2010, 17:59

Title: Junk Store Cameras
Post by: Clive on January 21, 2010, 17:59
http://www.junkstorecameras.com/
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Post by: Rik on January 21, 2010, 18:17
There's a few memories there, Clive.  :thumbs:
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Post by: Clive on January 21, 2010, 22:07
I thought there might be.   :D
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Post by: Simon on January 21, 2010, 22:29
I still have a Kodak Box somewhere, which an uncle gave me as a kid.   :woot:
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Post by: sam on January 21, 2010, 23:52
wow - frames!  :o
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Post by: Rik on January 22, 2010, 02:30
Sheet film and loading bags. Happy days.  :)
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Post by: Sandra on January 22, 2010, 02:51
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  :o
That took me back about 30 years or maybe even more, I bet you had your fair share of doing that Rik   :)
Title: Re: Junk Store Cameras
Post by: Rik on January 22, 2010, 02:58
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.
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Post by: Rodders on January 22, 2010, 09:41
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.
Title: Re: Junk Store Cameras
Post by: Rik on January 22, 2010, 10:13
It's a problem I often hear of with items being cherry-picked from charity donations. :(
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Post by: Simon on January 22, 2010, 11:07
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?  ;D
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Post by: Rik on January 22, 2010, 11:10
 :-X ;D
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Post by: Rodders on January 22, 2010, 11:26
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?  ;D 

I think we may have found the culprit.

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Title: Re: Junk Store Cameras
Post by: Rik on January 22, 2010, 11:34
:rofl:
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Post by: Clive on January 22, 2010, 13:07
 :haha:   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. 
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Post by: Rik on January 22, 2010, 13:10
Ah, now tape was much more interesting. I used to get people to record the phrase "I'm not just a pretty face" then I'd edit it to be "I'm not a pretty face", "I'm just a pretty face" etc. It made them aware of how what they said could be twisted.
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Post by: Simon on January 22, 2010, 13:21
Bet you were popular!  ;D
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Post by: Rik on January 22, 2010, 14:58
Some of the time. ;)