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What's the rarest camera you've owned?
« on: 16 December, 2011, 01:58:00 am »
Prompted by last week's AP, I claim a Wrayflex 1, one of about 850 built.

Your one and only British SLR, complete with 24x32mm frame size so you had to mount your own Kodachromes, and a mirror instead of a pentaprism so everything was left/right reversed in the viewfinder (or upside down in portrait).

Traded for a Nikomat some time around 1970

rogerzilla

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Re: What's the rarest camera you've owned?
« Reply #1 on: 16 December, 2011, 06:35:53 am »
I had a Leica IIf, which wasn't made in vast quantities although not counting as "rare".
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Re: What's the rarest camera you've owned?
« Reply #2 on: 16 December, 2011, 06:41:03 am »
Ebony RW45E - a special edition field camera made for Robert White.  There can't be that many of them..


nicknack

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Re: What's the rarest camera you've owned?
« Reply #3 on: 16 December, 2011, 07:11:04 am »
Instamatic 500 probably.
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chris

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Re: What's the rarest camera you've owned?
« Reply #4 on: 16 December, 2011, 07:34:10 am »
I've got one of these, sadly not in very good condition.

Gus

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Re: What's the rarest camera you've owned?
« Reply #5 on: 16 December, 2011, 08:24:38 am »
It might be my old Contax RTS II, but it's not rare.

clarion

  • Tyke
Re: What's the rarest camera you've owned?
« Reply #6 on: 16 December, 2011, 08:33:39 am »
Not very rare, but interesting: My Zeiss Werra.

I also had a Zeiss Ikonta

Just remembered - I had an MPP Microcord - an excellent British TLR.
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Jaded

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Re: What's the rarest camera you've owned?
« Reply #7 on: 21 December, 2011, 05:10:46 pm »
An Apple QuickTake 1  :)
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Re: What's the rarest camera you've owned?
« Reply #8 on: 21 December, 2011, 06:42:10 pm »
I own one of these http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/camera/film/data/1956-1965/1964_fp.html
My granddad gave it to my mom and she gave it to me.
Probably common as pie. I took it with me on holiday in the summer of 1999(solar eclipse in Romania was part of that), next to that I have barely used it.
I got a second lens for it though, a second hand Sigma f3.5-4.0 80-200mm. I doubt that lens has been used for more than 20 pictures since I got it.
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jogler

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Re: What's the rarest camera you've owned?
« Reply #9 on: 21 December, 2011, 07:16:14 pm »
A camera that takes a decent picture.Could not be any other reason for my crap photos could there?

Zipperhead

  • The cyclist formerly known as Big Helga
Re: What's the rarest camera you've owned?
« Reply #10 on: 22 December, 2011, 06:29:52 pm »
Probably my grey Rolleicord. Built for Philips as an oscilloscope camera. As far as I know it's never been used outside (in fact, I'm not even sure that it was been used)

It was sat in a cupboard for years and was going to be thrown out.

Won't somebody think of the hamsters!

clarion

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Re: What's the rarest camera you've owned?
« Reply #11 on: 22 December, 2011, 08:43:50 pm »
That looks like an Ikonta BX :)
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Zipperhead

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Re: What's the rarest camera you've owned?
« Reply #12 on: 22 December, 2011, 09:16:18 pm »
It is, occasionally I take it out and play with it. It works beautifully - even the light meter.
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Re: What's the rarest camera you've owned?
« Reply #13 on: 22 December, 2011, 09:24:47 pm »
That looks like an Ikonta BX :)


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