Bargains in 35mm

For their December 1962 issue Modern Photography magazine took a look at the used camera market. They made some interesting choices.

 

 

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Worried about your prints fading? Here is how they took care of it 55 years ago.

 

 

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Here is part 4 in Bennett Sherman's story of a lens.

 

 

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Here is a used camera buying checklist.

 

 

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Should you trade in your old meterless Herbertflex for the new Kepplerflex? Burt supplies the answer.

 

 

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Here is this month's Too Hot to Handle column.

 

 

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Popular Photography looks at the Konica FP camera.

 

 

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Here they check out the Rollei Magic II.

 

 

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Hasselblad has released their eye-level prism finder.

 

 

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Konica has released their CdS meter system for their 35mm camera.

 

 

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High Speed Ektachrome is now available in 120 format.

 

 

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Here is the latest on the news front.

 

 

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This month's editorial concerns the works of Alfred Stieglitz.

 

 

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Here is a look at the latest Kodak Master Photoguide.

 

 

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Here is an article on shooting through a microscope.

 

 

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There are some interesting camera equipment ads this month.

 

 

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Here are this month's dealer ads.

 

 

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As always, an excellent look back. Thanks for sharing.

I don't often comment but I enjoy these Marc. That bit about High Speed Ektachrome takes me back a bit when that was the only Ektachrome I used but used it nearly every day.

 

Rick H.

Mike - Glad you like it.

 

Rick - I remember using High Speed Ektachrome for the 1984 Summer Olympics. It seemed like such a fast film after using Kodachrome 25.

I thought High Speed Ektachrome was gone by 1984. We then had Ektachrome 100, 200, and 400.

 

Ektachrome 400 has more than three sensitive layers, for extra speed, I believe two for each color. Amazing, though a little more expensive.

Thanks for this post, again. I am happy to own several of those "Bargains in 35mm"!

 

An excellent guide for checking used cameras.

Now the Christmas panic is over I can catch up on my reading. Many thanks, Marc; from a retrospective POV the article on bargain cameras was interesting and relevant. Please keep up this good work in the New Year!

I think there was some overlap of the sale of High Speed Ektachrome (E4 and ISO 160) and its immediate successor, the E6 Ektachrome 200. My first Ektachrome 200 was during the late 70's when I used some to photograph a meteor shower. A little later when Ektachrome 400 became available I had a roll pushed so I could expose at E.I. 800. It actually worked quite well.

Back in my earlier college days I used a Unicolor E4 kit for High Speed Ektachrome and got got results, although the roll I pushed for E.I. 320 exposure had a bit of a purple tinge. I never got into doing E6 at home, though.