The Herco Flex

<p>I'd like to offer this camera to anyone that wants to experience it after you visit the link below. It would be nice if this thing can get passed around to other users and they could post their results here. I'd also like to hear how they'd describe the odor I mentioned in my web page.<br>

The first person that responds (if anyone does) here and says they'd like to receive this camera will get it free of charge. I'll coordinate any further passing around if it comes to that. The whole thing can be easily handled by email.<br>

I think you owe it to yourself.</p>

<p><a href="http://westfordcomp.com/classics/hercoflex/index.html">HERCO-FLEX</a></p>

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<p>I would be honored to take some shots with this camera. I will also spring for a roll of 620 film to leave in after I shoot it, so others can take a shot and pass it on, maybe.</p>

<p>Oh, and I can't wait to smell it and see if it smells like my old Ansco Pioneer, which I would describe in a similar way...cheesy.</p>

<p>Ah ! A brave man......I'll load the thing with re-spooled 620.</p>

<p>I've probably smelled it before. I know costume jewelry experts will burn a very small point on bakelite jewelry to see if it smells like burning bakelite. I wonder if it is because of the way the camera, or parts of it, were formed. I remember bakelite items smelling like this at my grandparents house when I was a kid. None of them had genuine stink-lines though.</p>

<p>The smell was so bad the telephone poles went wobbly? </p>

<p>Gene M and Michael H,<br>

If you decide to pass it around, please put me on the list.<br>

Barry</p>

<p>No. It's not a bakelite smell. It's far, uh different than that. OK Barry !</p>

<p>The Herco Flex is on its way south.</p>

<p>Can I have it next? It takes 620, right?</p>

<p>Yes. 620. Interested parties should email me.</p>

<p>Gene, do you have a stinky Smena or something to pass around. 135 format would be more convenient.</p>

<p>Yes I do have a stinky Smena but my doctor tells me if I take my antibiotics the smell will go away.</p>

<p>Pick me, pick me!!!</p>

<p>Once I got a Yashica FR black finished that smelled like someone had urinated on it, so in the garbage it went. Bought another one a month later and guess what, it smelled just the same. I guess it was the camera. Made the second one disappear as well.</p>

<p>Does any one have a stinky Rolleiflex or Hasselblad to rid off?</p>

<p>Kozma, I have a stinky old Polish camera Ami to give away. All you need to do is to collect 10,000 of these, and you'll get yourself a Hassy (body only).</p>

<p>Gene, the ball sunset one is amazing. I'm going to my bank today, will inquire about $7,000 loan.</p>

<p>How would you describe the stench, Gene ? Is it like :</p>

<ul>

<li>Zenit everready case iodine funk</li>

<li>Moldy Kodak Series VI filter case cloth pad pecorino romano odor</li>

<li>Dollar Store new shower curtain smell</li>

<li>Old typewriter or burnt differential lube nose-noise</li>

<li>Singed hair cause by burning-hot shards of exploded flash bulb</li>

</ul>

<p>Love those Curved Telephone Poles:</p>

<p>At last, one of your cameras that did not take astonishingly good pictures!</p>

<p>Of course, I speak only of technical details, not the compositions, etc.</p>

<p>Wish I could afford prints. :(</p>

<p>The poles must be bending under the strain of ice on the lines from a recent winter storm.</p>

<p>That bowling ball sure gets around and where are the flamingos?</p>

<p>No. We Poles don't bend under heaviest ice or snow.</p>

<p>The only thing Poles bend under around here are hard liquor after a hard day's work.<br>

Interesting Traveling Camera Project. I'm be interested in taking part, but I fear shipping it outside of the US would make it very expensive very quickly.</p>

<p>The Bowling Ball Sunset would look great over the fireplace, shame I need to win the lottery first. hahaha.</p>

 

<p>I should've expected such. The wooden kind, not the fleshy kind:)</p>

<p>This thread has a couple of the best one-liners in recent memory here.</p>

<p>I too would be honored to participate, but I don't re-roll so I (and whoever's next after me, if the etiquette is to leave it loaded) would use trimmed 120 like Gene. Do you think more trimming would have helped, Gene, or did you run out of plastic to cut off?</p>

<p>Oh yes, given enough time even Poles and Russians bend under liquor. They usually need more time than other nations... stand development in spirits they need I'd say.</p>

<p>Further trimming would have been futile.</p>