Thursday, November 13, 2014

Remember when....


....cameras looked like this?  I found these old-timers sitting on a shelf in an antique store.  I had never heard of the Filmo on the right so I looked it up.  Apparently, it was a line 16mm of cameras and projectors made by Bell & Howell.  I've heard of Bell & Howell!

20 comments:

cieldequimper said...

Well yes and no ! :-) I never used one like this! I sometimes wish I still photographed with my film camera... Nice collection!

Andy said...

Reminds me of my Super 8 days.

Stefan Jansson said...

I wonder if I will ever go back to shooting with an old film camera again. Maybe if I bought a Rolleicord. That would be fun.

Thérèse said...

Always nice to look at the cameras whose pictures we often admire.

Billy Blue Eyes said...

Thought they looked like cini cameras, I have a few old film cameras at home

Steve Reed said...

Those are great! I love old cameras, though by the time I was growing up in the '70s they didn't look nearly as interesting.

Karl said...

These are too old, even for me...
great find, Sharon !

Anonymous said...

Classics!

PerthDailyPhoto said...

I love old cameras Sharon that's why I love going to the camera markets. I've actually managed to take some shots with a 1919 pocket camera, was amazing.

Judy said...

There was a display of old cameras in the window of a store in Prescott a couple months ago. They were selling old photography books. I took a picture that I will have to try to find.

Birdman said...

My aunt pulled one of these out every Christmas and commenced firing.

Lois said...

We had one of those old box cameras where you held it in front of you and looked down to take the picture when I was a kid. I wish I still had it!

William Kendall said...

There's a shop here that has a number of these old cameras still in stock... though you wonder where you get the film.

Julie Ferguson said...

I have a collection of old/antique cameras. These are nice and I don't have any like them, yet.

RedPat said...

Times have sure changed!

Catalyst said...

I used a Bell and Howell and a Bolex when I was starting out in television news many, many years ago.

Randy said...

Nice collection.

Jack said...

Nope. None of these cameras were around the house when I was growing up. Kodak brownie and Polaroids.

Kate said...

Photography certainly has taken a quite different turn in recent years.

Unknown said...

So cool!