28 Oct
2012
28 Oct
'12
7:48 p.m.
>broken/cheap good cameras don't seem to be
available anymore.
On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I think a lot of them now show up on eBay labeled
"for parts", and go
for big $$$'s. :-(
The "golden age", when they went for nothing is gone.
Being able to become a "collector" now would mean buying
cameras for prices I previously would not have considered.
'course 15 years ago, people didn't want "collector" price for Apple
]['s
either!
We do have a couple local shops that specialize in
film gear that get
interesting cheap stuff in from time to time. My one 8x10 cost me
all of about $200 as it's intended for dry plates. I got my
Deardorff V8 8x10 from the same shop, the bellows will need replaced
in the near future (new ones are easy enough to get), but even
factoring in the replacement bellows I got it for a song. Earlier
this year I picked up a really fun 6x9 (120 roll film) with a
Schneider lens for $10. Once I fixed the focus, it works great.
I did recently get a back for my Linhof, after more than 4 decades of
using a Graflex back on it with homemade mountine.