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[Rollei] Maybe OT - What's the oldest?



Kodak Hawkeye camera with flash attachment, circa 1956.  I quickly
progressed to using a Voigtlander Avus, circa 1933, but my folks had
obtained it used.

Dan

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> Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 15:33:28 +0100
> From: "Bob McClelland" <bob  >
> Subject: [Rollei] Maybe OT - What's the oldest?
> Message-ID: <000f01c31180$f7e32350$0100a8c0@xp1000>
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> Hi All,
>
> Some recent comments about old members of the RUG (yellow cans etc) lead
me
> to wonder: what is the oldest photographic thing you possess? In order to
> keep the volume of replies down, and make it more legit, confine your
> answers to things which you personally bought brand new!
>
> I'll start (though I'll need to have a look around the darkroom to make
> sure) : It's probably a bottle of Johnson's AMIDOL, from around the mid
> sixties.  I've got loads of stuff I bought around that time, but most of
it
> was second hand (like a Corfield exposure meter, boxed, with paper manual
> and everything intact!, also got a BJP annual, 1959, but that was bought
in
> 1964!) but 2nd hand doesn't count.
>
> You got something more interesting, perhaps?
>
> regards,
> Bob
> Cornwall (U.K.)
>
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>

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