Oldest camera you use.

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So, what is the oldest camera you use?

Not one that sits in a glass case, but one that is regularly used.

Mine is my lovely 1966 Leica M2, which is also my year of birth which is nice. It's coupled with a 1958 Elmar 2.8 5cm lens and they are a lovely combination.

Newest film camera I use is a Nikon FE2 that is from the mid 1980s.
 
I think it's probably this one

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I have got a couple of older cameras but they haven't been used by me but they will be one day ;)

The newest film camera I use has to be either the Nikon F100 or F5.
 
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Probably my 1954 (I think) Rolleicord V.

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Newest film camera I use is a Nikon FE2 that is from the mid 1980s.
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Coincidently, an FE2 is probably my newest too. I do have an F601 but I haven't used it for many years.


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FE2 again for me and my FG.
 
OM2SP, mid 80s. I do have a 1970s Minolta lens that I still use though sadly the 70s body it went on is now defunct.
 
I occasionally break out a (1930's) box camera, I enjoy using my 1950's (?) folder, the RB67 is 1970's, my OM10 dates to about 1985 and my MJU is mid 90's.

I Should really plug those gaps...
 
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I occasionally break out a (1930's) box camera, I enjoy using my 1950's (?) folder, the RB67 is 1970's, my OM10 dates to about 1985 and my MJU is mid 90's.

I Should really plug those gaps...
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and go backwards...pre 1900 :D

In response to the Ops question:

Kodak No 2 Box Brownies from 1930 (ish) and a Zeiss Ikon Baby Box camera (1933)

Other gear much older but much of it only gets used very occassionally.( it does get used mindst in order to "keep it alive")
 
I have got a Kodak Pocket Automatic from about 1908...but I'm not sure it works, maybe one day I'll get soemone to have a look at it and fire it up.

I suppose my Oly Trip is the oldest or maybe the Mamiya C330.

Andy
 
A Nikon F. The serial number dates it to roughly summer of 1969 production. I was hoping for a summer of 1968 one to match my birth but couldn't find one so settled for a 1969 one. (It was a 40th birthday present from me to me) It has a 1966 vintage 35mm F2.8 Nikkor S lens attached most of the time.

Lovely camera & I should use it more than I do, but it has to compete for my affections with the other Nikon's in my collection.
 
I mirror quite a few on here:

Oldest is a late 50s Rolleicord Va.

Also have a Nikon F from around 1964.

Newest would be the Fuji GW690III.
 
Anything from Pentax S3 to Nikon f-401
 
oldest 1951 rolleiflex ( in fact its just been to brian micklboro for a service )

newest 2003 nikon fm3a
 
Hi, It's my "5x4 Speed Graphic".

I shot my first B&W wedding on this camera back in the early 70s, it was part of the equipment owned by the studio that my parents had which I eventually took over and still own.

God knows how old it is but these cameras can often be seen in old movies showing press photographers (mainly in the States). I still use it from time to time in the studio and it still produces very good images.
 
Mamiya C33. Not sure of the year but must be between 1965 and 1969.
As the question included 'regularly' rather than 'often', it just scrapes in :)
Christmas after all, is regular ;)
Newest is Canon EOS300, which I bought for the 35-70 lens attached. I had visions of removing the front element to use it as a macro for my 60D. Never happened lol.
In between oldest and newest, my ME Super probably gets the most use!
 
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No very, or even fairly, old cameras. My F2 is the oldest and I bought around 1978.I did have a Kodak folding bellows camera that used 120 film when I was a kid, and I'm guessing it dated from the 50s. Haven't a clue what eventually happened to it, but I daresay a lot of 'old' cameras got tossed out when 35mm started to dominate amateur photography, and the point and shoot cameras of the day came along. The same thing has happened with a lot of other things that people seek out now.
 
Well, today I regularly used my "new" Minolta Autocord, dating I think from 1961! Otherwise it's the Pentax ME, which I bought new in 1976... newest I guess would be the Oly mju II...
 
Hey, hey, 1961, a very good year if I may say so.
 
The oldest i use is an Agfa Isolette folder, although admittedly this is the first roll i've put through it but i've owned it for a while. I can't work out which age it is, it was either built between 1937-1942 or 1946-1950. I'm assuming the discrepancy in the middle years was down to the war :)

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Newest camera i have is a D7000, newest film camera i've use is an F90. I was about to say a Canon AF35ML but reading up on it, that's actually from 1981 :! I thought it was a 90's baby but there you go :)
 
My oldest regularly used camera is a Mamiya C330f which I was given by someone who wanted it to go somewhere it would be used. According to a site I just looked up, the model was made from 1972-1982.

On the very very rare occasions I use 35mm, I'd use either my OM1 (bought new in 1974) or an OM4 from 10 years later.

I do still have my original box cameras from the 1950s though.
 
As much as I use any camera these days, the oldest would be the perkeo - 1952-55 I believe.

Newest would probably be the Pinholga Panoramic.
 
Oldest one that I use is probably the RB67 ProS from 1974
The Fuji GW690 is from 1978 which is newer than I expected

Newest (excluding digital) feels like my Canon A-1, but it's also from 1978.
 
My oldest in regular use is a Nikon F2 from 1973, newest a Leica R7 from 1995.
 
Woodsy said:
Isn't that the year you turned 50?

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How very dare you....:nono: You young whippersnappers should show more respect to the elderly and infirm. :D
 
Think the Contax IIIa from the 50's is the oldest I use.
 
Oldest in regular use would be my F2's. I like to put a roll through my Box Brownie 1930 ish and 1938 Voigtlander Baby Bessa 645 at least a couple of times a year.
 
My oldest camera is an Adox Polo 1S, a rangefinder from early 60s.
 
1957/58 Rolleiflex, and the newest is probably the ~1991 Olympus mju 1. Very different cameras, but great at what they do (as well as all the other cameras between 1957-1991 that I own!).
 
An Ensign selfix 820


Camera and light meter 3 by alf.branch, on Flickr

It advertised in my Great Uncles 1953 The Photo Amateur's pocket Book I got with the camera the camera was passed to my mother then to me.
Though I think he was using a Zeiss Ikon Netarr II No U35810 with an S Prontar Shutter and a Novar F4.5 7mm lens
 
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