This website is a little project of mine to catalogue, kinda review, and provide information on the cameras in my collection.
I’ve been collecting cameras since 1999. I saw the demise of film, and oddly enough its rise again somewhat recently. Who ever thought that would happen?
My first real camera was a Pentax K1000. I still have and use that camera regularly. It’s a beast of a workhorse and it’s survived many bump and fall. Some really bad falls. I really don’t like camera straps, okay?
Shortly after I got that camera I started acquiring more and more cameras. Anything I could get my hands on, especially if they were cheap and kinda seemed to work. I was a part of an online community in the early 2000s that enjoyed not only cheap thrift store cameras, but also cheap toy cameras. By this time the beginning of the end of film was near, and cameras were especially cheap as people started to clear them out for their fancier digital cameras.
I can take as many photos as I want! No film! No processing! WOW!
All the better for me, because I amassed a pretty good collection. A lot of my cameras were $2-$5. It didn’t matter if they were cheap, or “crappy” or were made by the millions in the 1950s. They were simple, and because of that they still worked.
Fast forward and what was once a weird thing (“you still use film?), is now kinda back? Which unfortunately has made film and cameras more expensive, and I rarely get them for $5 anymore. But, I’ll keep chugging along, and while I love the resurgence, I love that people love film again, when the fadsters are over it (is that a word?) I do hope I can get back to the business of junk store hunting for that $5 camera again.