Favorite folding 120 cameras for shooting and collecting

[jack_welsh]

I'm not trying to turn this into a film vs digital, but, I bet that people won't be collecting digitals like they collect the film models!

[mike_elek1]

Hey Kerry -- I've been really crazy busy with life and all sorts of things. Most of them bad, but you take the bad with the good and in the end it all evens out. I think.

[anthony_brookes5]

Ikonta 520/2 with F4.5 Tessar - Quality at a very reasonable price.

[mike_elek1]

Jack, you're right. It's doubtful that digital cameras will attract collectors with the same passion as the older cameras. Today's digital cameras, especially the P&S models, are made for immediacy -- the here and now with little or no thought about the future. When they stop working, they're useless -- just as it is with most electronic devices.

 

The designs lack creativity, and you probably can lump 90% of the P&S models into the SoCanoNikoPenta square blob of chromed plastic junk category. Scratched-up plastic looks like hell, which is why the Japanese SLRs and P&Ss of the 1990s sell so cheaply. Same applies to a well-used digital. Most of them can't survive five years -- how many will survive 50 years? And in 50 years, which of the proprietary batteries will still be available?

 

It's OK, because the purpose of digital is to satisfy the need to have the photo now. Nothing wrong with that.

 

Nope, there won't be much of a market for old digital cameras and certainly not the same passion that is attached to the classic film cameras.

[david_m]

I like the Braun Norca and the Kershaw

[david_m]

"Scratched-up plastic looks like hell"

 

so does scratched up metal.