Mike's Old Cameras

Mike shows 3-D, Box, Bellows, twin Lens Reflex, 8MM film cameras, all film-based technology from an earlier time. Mike collect old cameras and takes photos. see them at www.mikeadams.org

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Science & Technology

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• old
• film
• cameras

[professormikeadams]

you are correct about the old Polaroid Land Cameras, but the new ones eject and develop before your eyes!

[Morahman7vnNo2]

Say, just wondering about the Press Camera, what was the little metal bar on top of the shutter used for on it? I also saw them on the original Polaroid Model 95 Land Camera. Any idea?

[professormikeadams]

@Morahman7vnNo2

The metal bar when pulled up makers a "frame," which you look through with a smaller metal viewfinder on the back, if that is what you mean. For framing the shot quickly, I think.

[Grandam1974]

Thank you for this video. I'm still using a Kodak Stereo 35, and a couple of other older Kodaks. Film isn't quite dead yet!

[professormikeadams]

I actually made a Viewmaster disc a few years back. A friend of mine had a few old blanks and the cutter and small tool and they came out fully registered and very nice! 3-D has made a comeback, although I have not yet tried the Stereo Realist format that my Kodak uses.

[mikemaj2]

That's a grat video. I actually think of getting a tlr. You could make a video about film formats ;)

[professormikeadams]

Good timing - today I discovered some old super-8 mag sound from the 70s and I am looking for the best place to transfer. I have a display at my university of film cameras. Today I put a roll of 35 b&w in a camera and I am going out to shoot

[bttfjulesvernemarty]

Bought the leica

[bttfjulesvernemarty]

From Oxford which there is a place he bough

[bttfjulesvernemarty]

My friend has a camera leica 1918 but from Oxford in England

[B2P2Films]

Great video! I hope one day I can afford a Rolleiflex....

[JustPlainCurt]

Interesting. Nice collection and good to see a fellow collector.

[PAC1977IRISH]

You should clean your nose before you make vids!

[AnalogSoulPhoto]

Nice collection! I too am an avid collector and photographer and really enjoy others' enthusiasm ;-)

[Toxiclevideos]

Do any of 'em still work?

[fallenskater124]

i want all of your cameras. those are just amazing.

[firemusic82]

I like when you said digital killed everything. I don't totally agree, but most of today's digital point and shoot cameras still don't come close to making the quality of photos as those Rolleiflex TLRs. Film is not dead. Medium format film crushes most digital. I just love medium format.