#1930s camera

Bucolic

Rast am Waldrand (Rucksack & Box Brownie No.2F)

So over the holidays we took in a huge collection of vintage cameras, lenses, paraphernalia, and gear from a collector. It's an enormous collection, and it's got a pretty deep range of stuff. It's taking us forever to go through, and some of it works and some of it doesn't, and gosh, who knew there were so many incredibly complicated cameras? 

Anyway. As we're cleaning them up and shooting them, we're appreciating that some of these things are just beautiful on their own, so here's a little selection of my favorite photos from the first batch. 

We're listing these cameras mostly on Etsy and on our eBay store, depending on whether they're pretty or whether they'll (hopefully, for us!) start a little bidding war. (We're expending so much labor on these things, we gotta hope they make some money!) 

For more pictures of the various cameras, here are a couple of the listings. 

Kodak Retina Reflex III, an early Kodak SLR made in Germany

Pilot 6 Kamera Werkstatten, a camera made in Germany in the late 30s

Leica IIIc 35mm Rangefinder-- another rare one, wartime production in Germany