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I haven’t ever used this beautiful vintage camera given to me by my sister but I have photographed it!

Have a few of them, don’t dare use them, but will surely be photographing them now – thanks ;) xoxox ♥

You can view my TTV work here.
All of my TTV work is done through the viewfinder of my beloved Argoflex Seventy-five, I love giving a new life to this gorgeous camera.

There are many wonderful ‘true’ ttv works on this site. I notice a couple of the TTV examples given above are actually digitally created and not ‘true’ TTV’s (no vintage camera used!), it can be hard to tell the difference sometimes but the challange, quality and reward of using the ‘real’ thing is incompariable. You can view some wonderful examples of ‘true’ TTV work in the TTV – Through The Viewfinder Group.
Give it a go, it’s a lot of fun and very addictive.

sorry about the typos!

Aww! Love this Share and thank you for featuring Retro Conglomerate :D

On the hunt, currently, for a trusty old thing with which to create TTV’s, myself. Thanks heaps for this!

I have an Argus 75 that I bought from eBay last year. It’s a challenge to get going but really worth it when you see the end result. I’m constantly inspired by Kitsmumma and Jules Campbell. Both these lovely ladies have porudced such fine examples of Ttv work,

I have a Leica IIIa that I use occasionally. Read about it here .

And it still takes wonderful images….

The oldest camera in my house is roughly 28 years old, but still works like a charm. I’m so caught up in my digital SLR now that I’ve not touched the old darling in quite some time. While on a tour of a local Hydro Dam at Stave Lake, BC. we saw a number of antique electric household appliances, including irons, stoves, wringer washers, etc. on display in the museum. When I came upon this antique No. 1 Kodak Jr. camera in one of the display boxes I couldn’t help by take a shot of it. This model nearly a century old, which is why I titled the shot “99 Years”.

I remember seeing a photo in a magazine once that had a photo that was taken from an old damaged camera with an old damaged lense. Obviously the combo worked enough to take a photo, which had an eery and interesting effect. An interesting way to take obscure photography without after shot manipulation on the computer or otherwise.

I love this topic…. :)

My Grandmother recently died, and passed onto me two of her cameras, a kodak Bonnie flash II, and a 155x instamatic, her first instamatic camera. The are really beautiful, but I darent use them, they are just one of my many lovely memories of her.

Wow – there is some great entries here. I recently aquired this Brownie and wanted everyone to know I love it.

Glad to see someone still cares about these vintage cameras I have boxes of them in my computer room a shelf full of them Some very expensive profesional cameras. I have many fond memories from when I grew up that is why I have been a profesional sice 1957. I was fortunate to have one of the first profesional photographers in Florida like Ansel Adams as my mentor. Now I have been folowing in his footsteps shooting around 100 photos each day mostly wildlife. Glad there are still a few left out there like me. Tom-Ft Pierce-Fla

Great topic. My entry

I love cameras, especially really old ones.

I have in my collection:

1. a very old a worn-out Box Brownie that belonged to my Grandfather,
   

1. a world war2 Praktica 35mm SLR:
   

1. a Bronica ETRS (not quite vintage, but still a loverly camera)
   

I am hoping one day to own a large format box camera that shoots onto glass plates (just like “Uncle Ansell” used.

I also want to own any large format camera made by Ebony.

they are not vintage but I also own:

2x Minolta Maxxum 7000’s

a Minolta Dynax9 35mm FSLR

a Konica/Minolta Dynax 7D

I have to show my old cameras
the ones i have
out of the pentex spotmatic 1960
Mv1 1970
ME Supra 1980
Nikon N90s 1990
Nikon F100
polroid from 1980
I still use the nikons and the mv1 and me supra pentex..
they are all wonderful cameras..

yay! Thanks so much for thes writings.. awesome pictures and history

old cameras make us happy . here is one from The John Ringling Museum

I collect vintage cameras and my oldest one dates back to the 1920s (6×13 glass-plate stereo by Summum). But rather than showcasing my own, I want to show you some of the amazing work that my friends in RB have been inspired to create using vintage cameras:

• Flashback 1966 by Johanne Brunet
  Wonderful nostalgia…

• How Cameras Play Tag by Bradley Shawn Rabon
  Amazing use of TTV concept on vitage cameras!

• Way, way back 2 by Nathalie Chaput
  Does anyone remember Kodachrome Super 8?

Wow! This is sooooo GREAT! I have launched a challenge in Nostalgic Art and Photography please enter all these wonderful images for our challenge!

I “borrowed” my camera images from the internets… sorry Taschja

@ Nancy Stafford… surf google images for some pix of your cameras, I would love to see what they all look like.

Sorry. Can’t open the door of the vintage camera cabinet right now as the vintage camera guardian is blocking the door.

Wonderful post. Here are a few of my cams:

Model 95 Land Camera.

Bouth Pentax K1000 model on eBay…

Click on the image to see the a brief story of eBay experience.

And hear is one of the images…. one of most popular too…

I am drooling over all these delicious vintage cameras. I have a very old polaroid tucked away in a cupboard somewhere… I wonder if I can still get film for it?

I own a a couple of Minolta X-700’s SLR’s. They’re not vintage, but they are beaut film cameras which gave me years of pleasure. Still have all the gear that accompanied those cameras as I’m a bit nostalgic about them because they were my first foray into the photography world. Many of my holiday and family memories were recorded using them. Cheers.

@Rhana: Getting Polaroid is a problem unless my fellow countrymen succeed in their Impossible Project

Loving seeing all these old cameras :) This is my Agfa Isolette, which I’ve sadly never used, but one day hope to!

http://www.redbubble.com/people/gurumel/art/2207734-2-vintage-camera

I also have a few old russian Zeniths, which I’ve used in the past, but not for a good while! The practicality of digital wins for now, but I do miss winding film and not having to worry about batteries :D The day I put the effort in and get some images off the Isolette will be great – it’s definately very rewarding, plus you never quite know how stuff will turn out ;)

The film and strap is not vintage but the camera certainly is. My Nikon Ftn bought in 1971.

My first Nikon, the Nikon F bought brand new in 1964 for about £179 including a 105mm 2.8 pre AI lens, alongside my Nikon D3 bought in 2008 also sporting a 105mm focal length lens.

I’ve got one of these, waiting for the day when I can afford to set up a darkroom, once more.

The Graphic View

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/graphic-view/

Over in the Melbourne RedBubble office, we’ve started using Russell’s old Polaroid camera to create an image wall of everyone who comes to visit. (As you can see, we need more visitors)

Great article and nice introduction to an an absorbing interest. I have no photos on RB (yet) but I seem to have been bitten by the vintage camera bug, too. First purchase was a 1968 Olympus Pen FT (35mm half-frame) which I found in a charity shop. This was followed by a Yashica-mat (120 roll film), Olympus XA (35mm), Minolta XG (35mm), Bencini Koroll (120 half frame), Kodak Junior (120), Kodak Autographic (124, sadly), Balda “Baldetta” (120) , Agfa Isolette (120) and a Mamiya 35mm fixed lens reflex. With the exception of the Minolta & the Kodaks all either have had, or currently still have, a roll of film passed through them – all except the Mamiya were bought through eBay.

I hope to shoot a number of vintage landmarks on the Kodak, which was made around 1928. My last acquisition was a lovely 1950’s Agfa box camera (120 rollfilm) which has one shot left to be taken ….

I also wondered about fitting “real” vintage lenses (e.g. from an old Isolette or box brownie) to a dSLR. Anyone tried this?

haha in fact i used a speed graphic in one of my latest designs…

http://www.redbubble.com/people/leapingpig/t-shirts/3435192-1-the-genius-machine

this discussion inspired me to photograph some of my collection. Here is one:

Thank you for the inspiration!!

Ya’ll sure know how to lable this second childhood camera buff, I’ll have to get the polaroid Land 100 from the nephew, He was told to hold on to it, someday it would be a conversation piece ! back in 2001 I did make a collection of my older film days captured moments, since the scanner resolution was set low to make catalog impression, not initially intended for print consideration, but through the magic of Photoshop, indeed some have been enlarged and do reside here, just for grins, I’d planned to make foto’s of the 1970 vintage Yashica Electro X TL,, perhaps my next project, seeing that there is a good following here represented ! many of the displayed photographed and here, are labeled film days, with added note camera used, Even have a 1989 vintage photo here, since part of the foto, hobby includes repair and preservation making restorations. so even I refer to vintage rather than old, the last film through the Yashica 2003. , Invitation to come and view Mesa Verde, Cliff Palace ! Thanks for keeping the spirit young ! and the smiles alive !

Fantastic. I love everyone’s posts.

Here are mine … and i plan to get more … my wishlist is long!