Old School Camera Stuff.

[chadizzy1]

I was feeling retro today.

I'm planning a trip down Route 66 this summer and thought I'd break out the old school camera and go with a Polaroid Sun 600 (you remember the old instant film, "shake it like a Polaroid picture" camera). Sad to say, hard to find film these days, very expensive originals, and some company "Impossible Project" or something bought out the last factory that made the stuff and is producing now, but only making black and whites, sold out of most, and quite expensive.

So I go to the Google machine.

I found a few cool things.

Apparently - they announced at CES 2011 a new Polaroid GL30 camera which is going to bring sexy back, all retro style. The only thing that's lame is Lady GaGa is attached to it. I don't know who he/she thinks he/she is, but he/she is trying to make cameras sexy.

http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2011/0...igital-camera/



Then I found out about a few new instant cameras.

The Polaroid 300 is okay, just makes some small pictures and the camera looks ugly. It prints instant pics too.



This Fujifilm Instax 210 sounds pretty cool.



It prints wide pics, not those small ones the Polaroid 300 does.

[precious007]

awesome camera

I have a polaroid from 1989 :-)

It's like new... I can still purchase the casettes for it... but I prefer to keep it as an antique :PP

[muddyfunkstar]

I love the polaroid land cameras. I even have a polaroid inspired tattoo. My first camera was a 600 called The Button, and up until recently I owned a few old models, such as a SX70, Colour Swinger II, SLR680, and a Spectra. Had to sell them when they stopped making the film and it was only available for silly money off ebay.

Not followed the Impossible Project's progress recently, but early reviews of their film were not good. It didn't work properly, and at the price it was viewed as an expensive crap-shoot on a shot by shot basis.

The look and feel of the old SX-70 film was just beautiful, though. Timeless classic, made even family snapshots look like works of art!

[stubby2]

Go with the real stuff and get a rangefinder. I still regret the day I sold mine.

[muddyfunkstar]

Go with the real stuff and get a rangefinder. I still regret the day I sold mine.

What did you have?

I used to own a Voigtlander R3A, then a Leica M7. I miss the Leica, it was a beautifully engineered piece of kit.

[stubby2]

What did you have?

I used to own a Voigtlander R3A, then a Leica M7. I miss the Leica, it was a beautifully engineered piece of kit.

I had an older one, the Bessa R2. I believe it was the first one with a magnesium body. It was built like a tank but of course not nearly as refined as a Leica. Those were way over my head.

When I went digital I played around with various digital SLR's and settled on a Pentax largely because they had the best primes for SLR's around. I just never could take a liking to zooms after using a rangefinder. The Pentax primes are very small and high quality. Kind of like a poor mans digital rangefinder, or as close to it as I could afford. I've been much into some old manual focus A models as of late even though I have the auto focus limited primes. It's a real hoot using 25 year old manual focus lenses on a digital camera.

Voightlander is still at it. This is there new medium format rangefinder. You can get it with any lens you want as long as it's 80mm

http://www.cameraquest.com/voigtl_bessa_iii.htm

[muddyfunkstar]

Voightlander is still at it. This is there new medium format rangefinder. You can get it with any lens you want as long as it's 80mm

http://www.cameraquest.com/voigtl_bessa_iii.htm

Oh man, I've been lusting after one of those since the first photos of it leaked on the internet a couple of years ago. When they announced the price, my heart sank. No way could I justify the cost these days!

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

Wait! When exactly did the '80s become "old school"? Man I'm getting old. Still have my grandmas box camera and it still shoots great photos. I do actually have a camera collection since photography was my first serious career. I might have to dig them out and post some pics...