Karim Ghantous Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 <p>Rick, I'm always glad to see a fellow WW2 enthusiast (if that is an appropriate word!). One of my dream finds is to come across a huge chest of 35mm negatives from the war. Plus the Leicas that took them. ;-)</p> <p>Funny how some of these cameras are really pretty - and yet the companies that made them go on to make some of the most hideous things I've ever seen.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMar Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 <p>Here's the oldest American camera I own: a folding 3A Brownie from the early 'teens (from Rochester, New York).</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliffmanley Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 I'm quite shocked that nobody has posted the mainstay of press photography for over half a century. The american made press camera. Crown Graphic in this case, Others include Burke and James and Busch. I would also like to see some of the RB series graflex cameras represented here! Come on and get em' out guys and gals!<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliffmanley Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 If anyone actually owns a Combat Graphic, I'd like to see that here too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralf_j. Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 <p>Cliff, you must have missed Rick Van Nooij's post, hist first frame has two Speed Graphics...</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliffmanley Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 Yeah I did miss them, the pictures were so dark and I didn't have my glasses on and read the print. Sorry Rick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliffmanley Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 Here's another "Top Shelf" American camera made in Rochester, NY This is a model II that is I guess better than the model I<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maderik Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 <p>OK, let's see, I have some that have not been shown yet.<br> Acro Model R, Chicago ILL<br> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2598/3709033404_b86e82c46a_z.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>Webster Winpro 35, Rochester NY:<br> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2774/4188292332_ae95829075_z.jpg" alt="" /><br> Kodak Signet 80, Rochester NY:<br> <img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/4188292514_e5201e39d8_z.jpg" alt="" /><br> Uniflex II, NY NY:<br> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2738/4518717960_9cb88d66df_z.jpg" alt="" width="464" height="640" /></p> <p>Anybody know where the Revere Eye-Matic 127 was made? Chicago perhaps?<br> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2728/4188984344_6ec29247d3_z.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="509" /></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnashings Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 <p>Cool thread, really enjoying it a lot! Something tells me that Gene M owns all of these lol :)<br> I feel very left out, I should really get some US made cameras... I really want a Crown Graphic, and someday I will get one, but I think I'll start with an Argus of some sort - I actually think they are very stylish looking.<br> Rick - that Kodak 35RF looks like the result of a drunken night of debauchery between Robocop and a camera ;)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick_van_Nooij Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 <p>Sorry Cliff I don't have a Combat 4x5 Graphic. JDM used one in the past didn't he? I wish I had one, but they are getting very expensive.<br /> Or did you mean the Graphic 70?</p> <p>Those are some wonderful cameras Erik! That Acro Model R really takes my fancy. Shame it's in 127 format, means I have to develop the film myself ;)</p> <p>Peter, the 35RF was Kodak's "OH SH!T"-answer to the Argus C-3. If they had taken the time to design another RF camera, who knows what kind of beauty they could've dreamed up. *cough* Ektra *cough*</p> <p> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photo5 Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 <p>Cliff, that Hawkeye Instamatic was my very first camera. I never used it with flash (not knowing what battery was supposed to go in the bottom of the camera) but I shot with it for 4 years until I asked for a got a Kodak 110 camera with built in electronic flash for Christmas. That I used for a couple years until I began using my mothers Canon Canonet GIII QL17. I also bought my own 35mm camera, a Chinon Bellami (for $75, while I really wanted to buy an Olympus XA, which by 1985 was hard to find new). </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted May 28, 2011 Author Share Posted May 28, 2011 <p>I wish I had the "Marine Combat Graphic", as we called it then. It was the property of the Smithsonian Institution - River Basin Surveys - Missouri Basin Project.</p> <p>Later I just used various Graphics/Graflexes in 4x5, often with Polaroid Type 72. Plus-X was really super in 4x5.</p> <p>Here's the real thing, not to be confused with merely olive-drab-colored Graphics or the 70mm "super Contax" Graphic. Note the entire camera is a wooden box covered with OD. The lens front when carried has a door that is shown below, snapped up under the lens area. (Folmer Graflex Corp., Rochester, NY)</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliffmanley Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 I remember you talking about them before. The thing that made me mention wanting to see one , is that I just came across a Pre-anniversary Speed that someone spray painted green and were calling it a "Combat Graphic" and I thought the real thing had the bellows totally enclosed, and was quite well armored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Collins Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 <p>Here's the one that started it all for me...the Kodak Instamatic X-15.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Collins Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 <p>Here's another Kodak from Rochester, I believe. It's a Kodak No.2 Folding Autographic Brownie. This one still has the original stylus that came with it!</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick_van_Nooij Posted May 29, 2011 Share Posted May 29, 2011 <p>I've got one of those too, Andy. Though the bellows on mine are riddled with pinholes.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonsignore_ezio Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 <p>?????????????????????????????????????????????????<br> I can't believe it... How could it possibly be, that nobody has so far posted a photo of one of the cutest US cameras ever!?!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonsignore_ezio Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 <p>?????????????????????????????????????????????????<br> I can't believe it... How could it possibly be, that nobody has so far posted a photo of one of the cutest US cameras ever!?!</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonsignore_ezio Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 <p>Well, where is my photo now? Let's try again...</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonsignore_ezio Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 <p>Third attempt....</p> <div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliffmanley Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 Here is another very loved Argus model. The Seventy-five !<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliffmanley Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 And what about the Infamous Holiday Flash! Now that's cute!<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliffmanley Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 And another little dream from Argus, the 21 Markfinder.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabor_szabo3 Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 <p>From New York's Universal Camera Corporation, ca. 1938 :</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_naylor1 Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 <p>My contribution is a c. 1903 Seneca Chautauqua plate camera, acquired one late night on Fleabay US. It's the rarer version in rosewood, most being in Henry Ford-approved black. It's also the oldest camera in my entire collection, and is unrestored. Some family just looked after it exceedingly well, for which I'm eternally grateful. (Pete In Perth)</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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