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I Love Old Cameras

I collect vintage cameras. Some of mine are over 100 years old. I have over 40 so far and am always on the lookout for more finds. Usually when I get them, they are all gross and covered in guck and stuff. I take those ones apart and clean them from the inside out and/or make repairs. My very first old camera was a Polaroid spectra my dad gave me when I was little. I instantly fell in love with film and he went on to show me how to load and shoot 35mm cameras. Now I shoot with 120, 620, and 116 film cameras. You can't buy 620 or 116 film anymore, but I just buy 120 film and re-spool it onto old 620 spools. It's so much fun.
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SteelHands · 61-69, M
That one at the top looks like one that was used by crime and accident scene documentation by police photographers in the prohibition era.

Mine has a small door that opens on the back. With a stylus to scratch information into the exposed frame.

My mother took all the family pictures up until about 1960 with a brownie like the second one.