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Compact or Viewfinder

 This is where it all began, with the Agfa Silette Pronto 1, below, to be precise. Although I did have a couple of old cameras, like the Trip, the idea of starting a collection didn't come about until I bought the Silette. After I had been out with it and realised what results could be achieved with this simple camera I was hooked. What was more exiting was that I could pick up these cameras for very small sums of money, a far cry from when they were new. When I first got interested in cameras and photography, back in the 1960s, earning £5 10 shillings a week, that Silette would have been more than a months pay.

The list of cameras below is a listing of Compact Vintage or Classic cameras which are either currently in my collection or have been used to provide the sample images and have been moved on or pensioned off.

Note: Where it says Untested this usually means "in the field". All cameras are checked for mechanical efficiency when they arrive and any maintenance carried out before they can be used in the field.

Camera

 

Status

Adox Polomatic 3S Fully Operational
Agfa Optima Sensor Untested
Agfa Silette Pronto 1 Fully Operational
Agfa Silette Pronto 2 Fully Operational
Agfa Silette Vario Fully Operational
Agfa Silette Series1 SVS Untested
Agfa Silette Series2 SVS Fully Operational
Agfa Silette LM Ser1 SVS Fully Operational
Agfa Silette LK Sensor Fully Operational
Braun Paxette Fully Operational
Balda Baldessa Fully Operational
Cosmic 35 Untested
EMI K35 Fully Operational
Franka 35   Fully Operational
Halina 2000 Untested
Halina 3000 Fully Operational
Ilford Sportsman 1 c.1957 Fully Operational
Ilford Sportsman 2 c.1959 Operational  
Ilford Sportsman 4 c.1963-1965 Fully Operational
King Regulette Untested
Kodak Retinette 1 Fully Operational
Kodak Retinette 1a   Fully Operational
Kodak Retinette 1b Fully Operational
Kodak Retinette 2 Fully Operational
Mastra 35 Untested
Olympus Pen EE Fully Operational
Olympus Trip 35 Operational
Pacemaker 35P Fully Operational
Pentona Fully Operational
Prinz Mastermatic 111 Fully Operational
Rollei B35 Fully Operational
Voigtlander Vito 1 Fully Operational
Voigtlander Vitoret D Fully Operational
Wirgin Edixa 1 Fully Operational  
     
     
     

 

 

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