Goodbye to Bronica

[castledude]

The only medium format I ever played with so kind of sad for me...

I guess now is the time to stock up on those little parts ...

http://www.tamron.com/news/corp/bronica ... uation.asp

[jim_panzee]

Hey come on dude don't be so sad. How many of the big manufactures have discontinued certain camera models, ALL my cameras that I own at the moment are no longer in production, but if anything goes wrong, I can still obtain parts for them no trouble. Just use it and don't worry mate.

[matiasasun]

Hey come on dude don't be so sad. How many of the big manufactures have discontinued certain camera models, ALL my cameras that I own at the moment are no longer in production, but if anything goes wrong, I can still obtain parts for them no trouble. Just use it and don't worry mate.

How old? I just discover my old Grand Grandmother (I´m not even sure if that term exist) Kodak Rollaflex. According to the PBase data base it was manufactured in 1957 (in N.Y.) and there are some parts that I just don´t understand... is there a good place where to order supplies like film and stuff? (I mean for really old stuff).

I´ll probably make a few pictures of it for you guys to help me understand the basic features of that old piece of camera.

[jim_panzee]

Matias. I don't know what you have there, a Kodak or a Rollieflex, but whatever it is do a search in Google and you can bet there will be a reference to the camera somewhere. There are old cameras however that are only good for the nearest rubbish bin, but you may get the odd collector that will buy them. One must realise that nearly all of the old independent film camera manufacturers, have been taken over by the big Japanese conglomerates, who's only interest is to produce bits of plastic and electrics which will be outdated and recycled in a couple years to make way for the next generation of plastic and electrics.

[matiasasun]

You´re right Jim... I did mix up the names: It´s a Kodak Duaflex III
(Here to see pictures of the camera)

I don´t have a clue how did they manage to take good pictures with it. It is so unstable that you cannot hand held it and press the shutter during the right time and keep it steady... I guess a tripod was necessary. I need to find out more about this; thanks for pointing out my mistake. Probably now I´lll get more useful results in google

[jim_panzee]

Can't see the picture Mati, but if its anything like the Duaflex 1V, there will be a collector out there somewhere. As for useing it, Hmmmm.

[matiasasun]

Can't see the picture Mati, but if its anything like the Duaflex 1V, there will be a collector out there somewhere. As for useing it, Hmmmm.

Yep... but As I said before, I´m one of those guys that´s has to learn something the hard way. It might take me a while, but you´ll see a picture taken with this "black box + shutter" in my site soon (I´ll tell you then)...
(BTW: If I can make this thing work I´ll make my own camera!)