Vintage film cameras

Not a true camera, but .....close enough:
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Just got a smoking deal on two Nikkor lenses. 400/5.6 ED in EX shape and a 500/8 Mirror lens in LN condition...$200 for the pair. Optics don’t look like they have ever been touched and each lens is dust free.
 
That is a great deal. Not sure about the 500 but the 400 is sure to be a good lens. What version is it exactly? AIS?
 
500 is a good lens. Fixed at f/8, but very small for the reach. If you use it right it’s really good.

The 400 is the first version with the ED element. Not the the more common EDIF. Very sharp lens. Some say sharper than the EDIF version. Many like it because you can hand hold it.
 
IMG_20190131_134657.jpg 4 x 5 Pony Premo No. 4 with Victor shutter, made by the Rochester Optical Co. The company was taken over by Kodak in 1903.
 
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Those are three very useable cameras. I have a Polaroid 250, with its Zeiss finder. I'm using the last ten packs of FP100c pack film on that one. The Yashica is as good as it gets for TLRs. When that was in production, the Rolleiflex still was sporting a Selenium meter. The Zeiss folder, with it's monster lens (f2.8?) is a real keeper also!!! Wish I had that one also.
 
Those are three very useable cameras. I have a Polaroid 250, with its Zeiss finder. I'm using the last ten packs of FP100c pack film on that one. The Yashica is as good as it gets for TLRs. When that was in production, the Rolleiflex still was sporting a Selenium meter. The Zeiss folder, with it's monster lens (f2.8?) is a real keeper also!!! Wish I had that one also.

Thanks, this is a closeup of the lens on the Zeiss folder.

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IMG_20190201_090803.jpg A rare pair of ultra compacts and two good performers. Chinon Bellami with 35mm f 2.8 Chinonex lens that pops out from behind 2 doors, with its removable Chinon Auto S-120 flash, and Hanimex 35ee Micro with 33mm f 3.5 lens that hides behind a built-in flip-up flash.
 
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IMG_20190201_091546.jpg Two of my favourites - both little ergonomic masterpieces with nice optics. Olympus XA4 Macro with 28mm f3.5 Zuiko lens focussing down to 1 foot, and Olympus XA with rangefinder focussing 35mm f2.8 P Zuiko lens, pictured here with removable A16 flash.
 
IMG_20190201_092513.jpg Soviet Era Kiev 35A and its German cousin, the Minox 35EL with original box. The former with Kiev Korsar 35mm f2.8 lens and the latter with Color-Minotar 35mm f2.8 lens. The lens on the Kiev seems a little sharper and contrastier to me, but the camera is prone to light leaks.
 
IMG_20190201_095220.jpg While on the subject of Soviet cameras, this is my favourite, made by FED in the Ukraine in the late 1950s. The FED 2b combines a Contax length view/rangefinder (for greater accuracy than the Leica original) with a screwmount Leica inspired body. The b model added flash synch to the original 1955 FED 2 design (later models from the 2c on moved the flash to the top plate). This beauty comes with an unusual red (age faded to brown) vulcanite body covering with matching red (also age faded to brown) paint in the FED-2 engraving. Small numbers of these coloured FEDs in red, green and blue were made in 1956. Lens is the trusty and ubiquitous 4 element Industar 5 cm f2.8.
 
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