VINTAGE CAMERAS COLLECTION HOW TO
VINTAGE CAMERAS COLLECTION PLUS

VINTAGE CAMERAS COLLECTION HOW TO

How to displayĪt the moment my vintage cameras are displayed in my living room in two half glass cabinets. They are hard to find but you can get lucky. So in my experience places to get vintage cameras are eBay, charity shops, Gumtree and private people who are kind enough to give them to you.

VINTAGE CAMERAS COLLECTION PLUS

My collection suddenly expanded plus I felt good about supporting a local charity too. I bought 17 of them on that day and a travel bag to pack them into. She asked only little for them as obviously she wanted them to go to a good home. Very old bellows cameras and box cameras were just chucked in one big box. She invited me in there and showed me a whole box of vintage cameras. The old lady said that they had some at the back room. One day I visited a charity shop and asked if they had any old cameras. Some of them had a few but unfortunately very ‘fairly’ priced. Then I thought I would check in charity shops. Everyone knew I collected old fashioned cameras so some of them were just given to me. Some vintage cameras I got as pressies for my birthday. I had my basic salary, contributing towards house bills (I used to live with my parents at that time) and of course funding my busy weekend life. I could have as many as I could afford! But there was a small problem…I couldn’t afford them.

So I looked online and particularly on eBay and… there they were. Then I started thinking about how I could grow my collection. I took it without knowing that it was the beginning of my vintage camera collection. Then one day my boss wanted to get rid of one of the cameras as he had a double one. I thought it would be great to have a collection like this but I never thought about it seriously as I knew that I didn’t have enough money to invest in completely unnecessary things, and I had no clue where to look for them. My boss had a few old fashioned cameras on display and I fell in love with them. It was about 18 years ago when no one knew about digital photography yet. It was a small photography business equipped with a developing machine for films and a processing machine for processing photographs. I remember my first work being in a photographic shop.

Vintage cameras collection