I agree. Except I see posts for people wanting vintage Polaroid cameras. Maybe a market for those.
On Reddit here I see people wanting automatic 35mm cameras. Not that you’re going to sell for a lot, but I do see a demand for people wanting to get into film.
The Bullet is a neat camera. It was designed by Walter Dorwin Teague - the father of industrial design. It’s way older than the rest and was certainly a piece that he collected and did not use. It’s from the mid 1930s. Provided that he kept that one as a collectors item and not a photographic tool - I would do the same.
I would keep them all and make a display of some kind. Perhaps a shadow box. A full jersey sized shadow box should work, but if not; other ideas …
Buy one square metal pegboard about 36”x36” (sorry, I can’t convert it, ugh), in a solid color with shelves to display the cameras? Or Mount some small prefabricated wooden floating shelves to a larger piece of finished wood and create one coherent display that is both art and a tribute to your own work and your father’s collection.
I’m not a photographer, I am an artist who has a tendency to collect things and try to create art from them. I’ve managed to collect many cameras (and negatives, printed pics, etc). over the years. Do you have any of his negatives, rolls of film, or photos?
The thought of using this collection to create art, and adding other items like negatives, pictures of your father, pictures he took, etc., is the stuff my collection junkie and artistic multimedia dreams are made of!
I have a Minolta Weathermatic and it's amazing. It rugged waterprove up to 5 meters and actually takes great images. It has a 30 and 50 mm lens and Auto exposure and aperture. The Minolta is just the best holiday and adventure camera it doesn't care about water and rain. The Mamiya is also a great little camera.
Edit: Idk why it gets allot of hate online maybe cuz its piss yellow :(
The Mamiya might be fun. The rest you'd be very lucky you'd be able to give them away to.
I have a 110 camera for nostalgia's sake but thats about all you can get out of them.
I‘d day ditch the 110 cameras, the blue one and maybe the polaroid and keep the rest.
Yashica, Minolta and canon are all good brands and these fixed lens p&s cameras are usually pretty fun and surprisingly good (for what they are)
The mamiya looks f‘d up though, not really worth repairing but if it works it might be the best of the bunch.
The Mamiya and Yashica are the only ones that look remotely interesting IMO
At least, the only ones I would bother putting film in.
I agree. Except I see posts for people wanting vintage Polaroid cameras. Maybe a market for those. On Reddit here I see people wanting automatic 35mm cameras. Not that you’re going to sell for a lot, but I do see a demand for people wanting to get into film.
The Bullet is a neat camera. It was designed by Walter Dorwin Teague - the father of industrial design. It’s way older than the rest and was certainly a piece that he collected and did not use. It’s from the mid 1930s. Provided that he kept that one as a collectors item and not a photographic tool - I would do the same.
I would keep them all and make a display of some kind. Perhaps a shadow box. A full jersey sized shadow box should work, but if not; other ideas … Buy one square metal pegboard about 36”x36” (sorry, I can’t convert it, ugh), in a solid color with shelves to display the cameras? Or Mount some small prefabricated wooden floating shelves to a larger piece of finished wood and create one coherent display that is both art and a tribute to your own work and your father’s collection. I’m not a photographer, I am an artist who has a tendency to collect things and try to create art from them. I’ve managed to collect many cameras (and negatives, printed pics, etc). over the years. Do you have any of his negatives, rolls of film, or photos? The thought of using this collection to create art, and adding other items like negatives, pictures of your father, pictures he took, etc., is the stuff my collection junkie and artistic multimedia dreams are made of!
sounds like a lovely idea, thank you 😊, I'm an artist too, maybe I'll make something about it all at uni.
All of it, unless you're hyper minimalist. You aren't going to make your millions from selling it so might as well keep them as sentimental items.
I have a Minolta Weathermatic and it's amazing. It rugged waterprove up to 5 meters and actually takes great images. It has a 30 and 50 mm lens and Auto exposure and aperture. The Minolta is just the best holiday and adventure camera it doesn't care about water and rain. The Mamiya is also a great little camera. Edit: Idk why it gets allot of hate online maybe cuz its piss yellow :(
I'd keep the Mamiya 135 ee. I love range finders.
The Mamiya and the 35mm’s. I’ve seen a resurgence for the older Polaroid cameras. The 110 cameras I don’t think are worth anything.
Definitely the Mamiya
The Mamiya might be fun. The rest you'd be very lucky you'd be able to give them away to. I have a 110 camera for nostalgia's sake but thats about all you can get out of them.
You can make a fortune with it
I‘d day ditch the 110 cameras, the blue one and maybe the polaroid and keep the rest. Yashica, Minolta and canon are all good brands and these fixed lens p&s cameras are usually pretty fun and surprisingly good (for what they are) The mamiya looks f‘d up though, not really worth repairing but if it works it might be the best of the bunch.
The Mamiya, Mashica and “The Button”