David B

I bought this one for my wife. If memory serves me correctly, it was the last 35mm camera we bought, before we went digital. It is also the most advanced (technologically) 35mm camera that we own, with its optical zoom, smart flash, and LCD digital readout features. Takes pretty good photographs, too!

Picked this point and shoot, 35mm camera up at the Salvation Army for $2.00. There's a small mirror inside, which flips into place, when you wish to use the 2X tele lens. It also takes panorama shots, but only if you insert the panorama matte before loading the film.

Found this one on eBay. I never owned a Six-20 before. But, it was part of the same auction on which I won the Kodak Starflex.

I was able to find this one on eBay. I got it to replace the one I had as a kid.

This was my first camera, which was given to me by my parents. I used it quite a bit, and probably would have used it more, if it weren't for the fact that I didn't have money to spend on a lot of film or developing; neither did my parents.

I do remember taking it with me on class trips, when I was in grade seven and eight. I kind of lost track of it, not long after attending high school.

This was my first mid-range bridge camera, which I bought sometime around 2008. This was around the same time that I bought the EeePC 701, as well.

They suited each other very well, I thought.

Just finished building my own TLR 35mm film camera, a Fotodiox TLR. This was a Christmas gift from my wife.

It took me about two hours to complete. Now that I've done it, I could probably do it again in half the time. It wasn't that it was difficult to build, but there was a bit of a language barrier with the instructions.

The most difficult part was assembling the shutter, but it wasn't the simplest process to try and describe in written instructions. So, it took a bit of reverse engineering for me to figure out how the mechanism was supposed to work. Once I did that, it was easy to put together.
I have to say, for a plastic camera kit, it actually feels quite solid and well built. Now, I just need to get out and shoot some photos!

You can read more about my building experience on my personal photo blog, if you're interested.

I find this camera to be a well constructed digital bridge camera, with many features that are typically reserved for more expensive cameras. Unfortunately, Agfaphoto are no longer manufacturing digital cameras, so this camera is no longer available. For a brief time, this camera was being released under the GE brand name, but even these seem to be discontinued.

I'm enjoying this camera very much. The features that this instant camera brings a lot of fun to photographing with the Instax instant film.

It comes with three different lenses (fish eye, macro, and portrait) and has a unique way of diffusing the light onto the film; a feature of all Lomography brand cameras.

Along with the selection of lenses, this camera also comes with coloured filters for the flash, so you can give your photos some unique lighting effects to bring even more creative potential to your instant photos.

Be sure to check out my Film Photography album to see some of the photos I've taken with this camera.

This camera was produced in USSR, between 1962 and 1970. As best as I can tell, this particular one that I have was made prior to 1968.

I found this one at a very reasonable price, on eBay. It is in wonderful working order and came with a leather, hard shell carrying case.

It came complete, with the Industar-50 lens assembly.

Isn't it amazing to see a camera that is over 48 years old still in perfect working order? With all of our modern technology, you would think that we could make things to last even longer today; but we don't.

This 35mm camera was made in Hong Kong, back in the late 50's and early 60's. I never heard of this camera before. But, when I was doing research about Lomo-type classic cameras, I stumbled across this one. A camera collector wrote a review about this camera and likened it to a metal Holga.

I was intrigued by that statement and tried to find out more about the Halina. Turns out that it had/has a pretty good reputation. About the only negative thing I could find out about it is that, after being around forty or so years, sometimes the adjustment rings on the lens can seize up.

I found this one on eBay at a very reasonable price. And, luckily, this camera's lens operated just fine. Now that I have it, I have to say that it is a very solid camera. With proper care, it should last a lifetime yet. I like it and am looking forward to seeing how it takes photos.

Polaroid OneStep600

Found this little gem at the charity shop, just the other day. Picked it up for one dollar. Looks like it is in perfect working order. Now, I just need to get some film for it.

I know that film is once again being made for the Polaroid brand instant cameras, by PolaroidOriginals.com. Luckily enough, they are even selling through Amazon.com. So, it won't be long before I can try this classic camera out.

Lomography Konstruktor 35mm SLR

For Christmas this year, my loving wife bought me another great camera to add to my collection. This one is a kit, which took me just a little over two hours to complete. And I have to say, this is a great little camera and I can't wait to get some film into it and take some photos.

The camera is plastic, but a good quality plastic; it really feels nice in my hand. Once I added the faux leather decals to the camera, it felt even better and added to the overall quality of the camera.

When pressing the shutter, you get a real solid sounding "click" from the shutter. This version of the Konstruktor has a PC socket for an external flash and has two shutter speeds: fixed 1/80 and bulb (for long exposures).

I have a feeling that this camera is going to become a favorite of mine.

Vivitar ViviCam 3545 Mini Digital

I was doing some rummaging around in a couple boxes we have in storage, when I came across this little piece of photography history. This was my first mini camera, which I bought back in 2005, and it was a pretty unique camera, back in the day. Remember that this was before smart phones and tablets, and laptops didn't have web cameras built in to them yet.

It was considered as a "wearable" camera, that is, it was compact enough to wear around your neck, allowing you to take it with you where ever you went. It is a 1.3 mega pixel camera, with 16MB of storage built in (no high capacity SD or MiniSD cards at this time), has an optical view finder, and can take both JPEG images and AVI video footage, and is powered by two AAA batteries.

It could also be used as a webcam for your computer, via the USB connector, although it doesn't have it's own audio, so you'd have to have an external microphone already connected to your PC.

Although the image quality can't compare to today's mini cameras (like those in your smart phone), it still does a pretty good job at taking low resolution photos and is quite compact and convenient to use. It certainly does what it was designed to do.

This was our very first digital camera. I purchased this in 2001 and we used it quite a bit. It has a full 1 megapixel resolution, 2x optical zoom, and records to compact flash cards. The camera still works, however the battery tray has a broken latch (you can see it protruding out, to the right of the lens in the photo). This was a common problem with the DC-215.

Early digital cameras, like the DC-215, came with RCA cables, which allowed you to plug the camera into the video ports of your television. This allowed you to view your photos, right from the camera, without the need of a computer or other media device.

Apart from the plastic battery tray, this camera is a pretty sturdy little fellow, with its metal body and thick rubber hand grip. It feels very solid, in the hand.

This was the second digital camera that we ever owned. I believe I purchased this sometime in 2004. This is a 3 megapixel camera and uses compact flash cards. It also has the feature of a fully manual mode.

However, this particular camera no longer takes photos. It powers up, but the photo chip no longer seems to record the images properly.

I happened across this simple point-and-shoot 35mm camera at the Salvation Army. They were asking $2.00 for it, so I picked it up right away. I can't find any information about this unique little camera.

Film loading and advance is all manual, and it has a setting to choose between two film ISO settings (100 or 400) and a battery powered flash. Apart from this, there are no other settings. It does have a transparent sliding lens cover, which is different.

I'm really anxious to see how well it takes photos. Printing around the lens says that it has a Cintar lens, but I've never heard of that lens maker before.

Picked this one up at the local Salvation Army outlet shop for $3.00, which was quite the deal, I thought. I haven't been able to find out much about this camera, on-line.

It's a 35mm camera with power zoom, power film load and advance, and digital counter. The tiny LCD also displays the shooting mode setting, which can be either forced flash, flash off, red eye reduction, timer, or full auto. It's powered zoom appears to be a 2x zoom lens.

Found this 35mm SLR at the Salvation Army today for $10.00. It came with the two lenses, a flash, carry case and a shutter release cable. It is in wonderful shape (just missing the name badge above the lens) and is in perfect working order.

From what I can find out on the Net, it was made back in 1977 and has an aluminum cast body. It feels really solid and has that great SLR snapping sound when you release the shutter. A nice addition to the collection!

The photos quality of this camera isn't going to get the better of any modern day cell phone camera, but I enjoy the challenge of taking good photos with something like this. It's tiny, so it's really easy to carry around in a shirt pocket.