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[Brian Shaw]

I'm a user, not a collector.  I have very little interest in having  bunch of cameras that just sit around doing nothing.  But the more I repair and use old cameras, the more I end up collecting stuff.  Where does it end?

[Glenn Middleton]

It only ends when one's executors pass on the vast collection. However do not despair, the affliction   is even there at the start of a professionals career - body for black and white, body for colour neg and body for colour reversal etc etc. At lea

[Will Inoue]

Glenn, It sure is addictive. After having gone plastic EOS Rebel AF, I began to reminisce of my old vintage equipment. I started off by reaquiring a Canon FTB and F-1 setup I had bought new in the 70's. Then I bought a couple junkers for spares. The

[Glenn Middleton]

Will,
My Canon chapter very similar to yours. Whilst I still had my first slr (Canon FTb) and the F-1 / A-1 kit from my working days, I seem to have added three T90 bodies and a number of zoom lenses - I do not really like zooms! The real problem i

[Will Inoue]

I will have to get treatment, as this departure is definitely not good for my storage space or pocket!
 
I hear that! lol.

[Matthew Currie]

I am on a visit to family, and packed the car for two weeks. I brought two Nikon F's, an Olympus XA, A Konica T3 and a Contaflex.  My Rollei 35 developed a mechanical problem, so I left it home, and the kit seems somehow incomplete.  Do you th

[Steven Habersaat]

Hello All,
I started SLR photography with a Minolta SRT 101b and soon moved on to a Canon A1. Since then I have bought some more Canon SLR bargains and enjoy just looking at these fine pieces of technology sitting on the shelf. I currently USE a Cano

[John Krayetski]

I am just a Camera junkie  
 
http://www.flickr.com/groups/camerajunkie/

[Stuart Willis]

My story is a little different - and it goes like this:
 
Lady has inherited and used her late father's Rolleiflex (or whatever) for a number of years but suddenly the shutter won't work.
Typically she takes it to a camera store and is greeted

[John Farrell]

Confession time, eh? well, here goes.....
Back when I was a youngster at university, I was a keen photographer, and the Photographic Society had a fine darkroom....But then came work, marriage, no darkroom, and years of colour snapshots.

[Alex MacPhee]

This is excellent news, Stuart. At last I have found someone I can point to as worse than me, and get my wife off my back. I only have forty-five cameras, and it's hard to argue with her when she asks how I can possibly feed them all. A considerab

[Mark Pearce]

I find that if you're shooting a WW II re-enactment you should fit in with proper gear, hence the Contax, Rolleiflex, and Medalist kits I've put together.
FWIW, I drove across the US last summer from Maine to Yellowstone and packed just two

[henrytaber@kyp.hauslendale.com]

I'm not a collector either, so how did I accumulate so many cameras?  My perspective on this seeming paradox is... I started this tinkering hobby to have fun.  Acquiring a new toy to tinker on is definitely fun.  Tearing into them is fun.  Figuring ou

[jackie]

I am seller!! oh yeah i also fix and repair them ...and sometimes if i can't fix i tkae to my local camarea repair shop

[Werner J. Becker]

Since the time I first stumbled across this forum more than two years ago I have always been attracted and fascinated by sentences like Henry's This is about as hard as it gets in Copal shuttered rangefinders. Are we still having fun? in his Y minister