Can we have a "Collectors Corner" on the UHH site?
Jul 23, 2017 14:58:12 #
Having just completed a mail order course on how to control new and contemporary GAS, I have turned to admiring old cameras and stuff. Is this just another variety of GAS or is it a new version of an old illness?
Jul 23, 2017 15:07:57 #
I should think collecting cameras is quite OK. I have quite a collection, as well. However, everyone of them works and earns their keep. I don't buy bookends.
--Bob
--Bob
LEGALDR wrote:
Having just completed a mail order course on how to control new and contemporary GAS, I have turned to admiring old cameras and stuff. Is this just another variety of GAS or is it a new version of an old illness?
Jul 23, 2017 15:13:12 #
You might reach out to an excellent group in Tucson, AZ, called Tucson Camera Collectors. Was formerly an active member back in the mid-to-late '90s and loved the goup and its various activites which included camera shows/sales. Apologies, I don't know who the officers are now. Even if you don't want to journey to Arizona, they may have some great input on setting up such a group in your area or on UHH. Good luck. /Ralph
Jul 23, 2017 15:21:37 #
LEGALDR wrote:
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Answering to your thread title...
If you want to create a 'collector corner' on this site, why not ask the admin to create it? You would be the leader of it.
Just a thought.
Jul 23, 2017 15:22:47 #
rmalarz wrote:
I should think collecting cameras is quite OK. I have quite a collection, as well. However, everyone of them works and earns their keep. I don't buy bookends.
--Bob
--Bob
No retirees in your group???
Jul 23, 2017 15:24:25 #
This is a dynamite idea. Maybe such could include links to museums on cameras & lenses and their respective manufacturers, biographies on famous photographers, both heros and scalawags.
Jul 24, 2017 06:34:30 #
LEGALDR wrote:
Having just completed a mail order course on how to control new and contemporary GAS, I have turned to admiring old cameras and stuff. Is this just another variety of GAS or is it a new version of an old illness?
I don't collect, but I would find it interesting. Love the "retro" blue camera! As to the comment on "bookends".... I think an object of historical interest does not have to be something that has current usefulness. Would I want a Model A Ford for transportation? No.....but...... I would think most photographers would have some interest in how our hobby evolved.
Jul 24, 2017 07:26:21 #
Nope. They all earn their keep.
--Bob
--Bob
Rongnongno wrote:
No retirees in your group???
Jul 24, 2017 09:38:17 #
Jul 24, 2017 11:23:05 #
I think it would be a great idea, even I sold my collection I am still interested what's out there. Here are few pictures of my former collection. The first camera is a Schmid Patent detective camera, this was the first patent handheld camera, Patent date 1883, only a few are still in existence, the second picture shows the shutter assembly.
Jul 24, 2017 11:29:01 #
Jul 24, 2017 11:44:12 #
Jul 24, 2017 11:58:38 #
jrh1354
Loc: Dayton, Ohio
Concur - I've been looking for a collectors forum. UHH is good place to set one up.
Jul 24, 2017 12:07:31 #
LEGALDR wrote:
Having just completed a mail order course on how to control new and contemporary GAS, I have turned to admiring old cameras and stuff. Is this just another variety of GAS or is it a new version of an old illness?
I'd subscribe to that section. Haven't collected cameras for years, but the subject still interests me.
Jul 24, 2017 12:13:36 #
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