What are these?

W

Woog17

Suspended / Banned
Messages
379
Name
Dan
Edit My Images
No
Hi there, my Grandad just gave me these cameras and I'm not to sure what to do with them, he said I could keep them/sell them so if anyone knows anything about any of these please help me :) thanks dan

Camera 1:

2m5cxlh.jpg




Camera 2:

axcux5.jpg


Camera 3:

2hpm2bd.jpg


2z7llys.jpg
 
Why not put a film in the Minolta and Pentax and take some film shots...then you can always say "been there done it"
 
the first is a minolta 35mm slr, might even be AF, I dunno
second looks like a 35mm PAS compact and the third is an 8mm cine camera.

all film of course..:)
 
Thanks for the quick response guys, I will try get my hand on some film :) are thry worth anything?
 
Woog17 said:
Thanks for the quick response guys, I will try get my hand on some film :) are thry worth anything?
Click to expand...


Excellent..assuming you go into a city or large town shopping, pop into the poundland shop and buy a Kodak film for £1, take your shots and then if you are lucky there might be a large Asda where you live that will develope the film and scan to a CD for £2.98.
 
To Brian ?

about 40p for the lot.......if he's feeling generous..:)

to the market they're worth a bit of something, search ebay and see what they're going for
 
joxby said:
To Brian ?

about 40p for the lot.......if he's feeling generous..:)

to the market they're worth a bit of something, search ebay and see what they're going for
Click to expand...

Well it depends on the donations into my hat to what I can afford :lol:
 
The Minolta is pretty. I am a sucker for Minolta :D

Get some film for the 8mm as well. That's how Speilberg started and he's done ok for himself! Plus, the noise they make when shooting is a real aural delight :)
 
A quick look on ebay for completed listings suggest that the Minolta's probably only going to bring around £30 even if it's in perfect working order - theres an awful lot of unsold ones at £40 :( Bang a film into it, and go give it a try, see what you make of it. FWIW it's a bit of a milestone camera - and marked the start of a big change in how cameras behaved.
 
Just remember the earplugs if you use the AF! 80's technology...
 
norters said:
The Minolta is pretty. I am a sucker for Minolta :D

Get some film for the 8mm as well. That's how Speilberg started and he's done ok for himself! Plus, the noise they make when shooting is a real aural delight :)
Click to expand...

Unfortunately I think that takes the original 8mm ( known as straight or standard 8) film which came as a roll of 16mm film which you exposed down half of one side and then turned over at the end of the 25 feet to expose the other half side, giving you 50 feet. When developed, the film would be slit down the middle and joined each end. (As you turn the film over in subduded light, about 6 feet of the film will come out overexposed as its been exposed to the light). Kodak's later Super 8 comes as a cartridge making it much easier to load.

I recently acquired a straight 8mm camera and the film is quite expensive (In Britain at least) and processing is also a fortune. I actually worked out its cheaper to buy the film from the USA or Germany and get it processed in Germany than it is just to buy the film in the UK, even when you include the postage.

BTW, Speilberg started out with 16mm and Super 8 film, not the earlier standard 8.
 
Keep them, imo you should always have a couple of film cameras knocking about as the picture quality is just as good as it always was and when you go to places you don't want to take an expensive dslr to (say Glastonbury for example) it does not matter if they get broken.
 
Simple answer, they are worth very little. The Pentax P&S is probably not worth more than a fiver, the Maxxum 7000 won't realistically be worth that much more (the only ones that really go are the ones with good glass on the front, for use on the Sony alpha DSLRs).

But yeah, get some cheap film and enjoy.
 
s162216 said:
Unfortunately I think that takes the original 8mm ( known as straight or standard 8) film which came as a roll of 16mm film which you exposed down half of one side and then turned over at the end of the 25 feet to expose the other half side, giving you 50 feet. When developed, the film would be slit down the middle and joined each end. (As you turn the film over in subduded light, about 6 feet of the film will come out overexposed as its been exposed to the light). Kodak's later Super 8 comes as a cartridge making it much easier to load.

I recently acquired a straight 8mm camera and the film is quite expensive (In Britain at least) and processing is also a fortune. I actually worked out its cheaper to buy the film from the USA or Germany and get it processed in Germany than it is just to buy the film in the UK, even when you include the postage.

BTW, Speilberg started out with 16mm and Super 8 film, not the earlier standard 8.
Click to expand...

I stand corrected :D The processing sure is expensive. My friend was doing some filming when we were shooting at Whittingham asylum and it is still sitting in the camera!
 
Super 8's processing cost can quite reasonable depending on where you get it done, but the most reasonable place in the UK that I could find that does standard 8 charges £17 for standard 8 which is about £5 more than their Super 8 cost. One place I found wanted £40!

The film price however is classic, they want £27 for a 50' roll of Plus-X when you can get the same thing from the US supplier where they get their stock from for about £14 including postage!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top