Online Museum for Unwanted Cameras.
Many of these cameras were hand-made, carefully chosen and expensive to buy. They were used to record the best moments of people's lives with family and friends, and taken on trips to exotic locations. After buying a newer model most sat on shelves for decades until their owner passed on, and were donated (dumped) at Goodwill. Almost nobody else wants the ones I have, but they bring me great joy. I treat them like the treasure they are, zip-lock bagging each with a dessiccant pack. They all get used, as time and film budget allow. I keep logs of each shoot and all the work done on them, and it all ends up on this site so you can appreciate these fine machines. This also keeps me busy during retirement. The kid on a horse was me in 1963. I use this when I don't have a picture to use yet. The picture was taken by a travelling photographer, dragging his pony door to door, taking pictures of bored kids in the dusty town of Simi Valley on the northern edge of Los Angeles County. This was my first exposure to photography, other than my mother with her Kodak Instamatic.
Newest pics are at the bottom of each camera page.
3-31-26: Bought my second camera this year, a Nikon Nikkorex F from 1962. Still shooting the Cosina CSM, since 3-6-26. After that is the motorized Ricoh KR-10M, last shot 8-24-24. The Miranda Sensorex recently purchased seems to be working well, and is the next manual feed camera in line after the Ricoh. I recently changed the font on my system, and noticed it changed the font on this site also, because I don't use CSS to define what font it uses. That's interesting to me. Point is you can change the font you see my pages in. My browser (Chromium) doesn't allow me to override a site's CSS settings, but your browser might. Why did I waste hours figuring out how to change system fonts? Because I can't tell a capital O from a 0, without a dot in the middle. In cases of password entry that causes problems, so I changed it to Deja Vue Sans Mono which is common on most systems. Much easier for me to see, and zeros are dotted.