Analogue #5–The Praktica TL-1000—GIVEAWAY?!

 

 

 

It’s time for a new analogue camera to show you guys! This time it’s the Praktica TL-1000. This camera is not that old. It started producing in 1980 and stopped producing in 1984. This is a beautiful camera to look at! Real eye candy. Though, I found it disappointing the black grip is made of plastic. The whole camera feels a bit like a toy camera because of that plastic.

I Do love the simplicity of the camera. It has just a few settings, but is able to make some pretty good pictures. (for what I have seen, I haven’t got the pictures back from development). I have been looking for lenses for this camera in thrift shops. A good plus for this camera. There are loads of lenses in thrift shops everywhere!

Tip: If you want to buy lenses, bring your camera with you, and fit them on your camera body. Do not buy them without fitting. Secondly, never forget to check if there are scratches on the lens. If there are scratches, just use the same method which I had told you guys in my post about how to buy the right vintage camera. FIRST ask how much it costs, THEN tell the owner it’s broken. You’ll end up paying a lot less.  Why buy a lens with scratches? well, if you got yourself one for a small price (I would give 1,50 euro’s for a broken lens)  You can take pictures with them, you’ll get some cool effects. Here is a picture taken with a scratched lens (there is some dust on there too)

One other thing.

I was having a good idea about something. I was thinking about a giveaway when I hit 50 followers (only for the followers on glipho). As soon as I hit that 50, I will write a post about a really cute camera. If you would like to win it (free for everybody, I will send it to you and I will pay the shipping costs) you have to comment on that post, and you have to be following me. Good idea for al those who love vintage thrift shop junk! (More information about this giveaway in the actual giveaway post)

So what do you think?

Cameras, real old cameras.

As some of you know, I’ve got quite a few old analogue camera’s. So I thought, wouldn’t it be nice to show them of a little!
I started collecting old camera’s last year. I had bought my Olympus trip 35. which is a perfect camera to use if you want to start trying out the analogue side. It doesn’t use battery's and it works almost automatically. The only thing you have to do is focusing. Then I started actually looking for them in thrift shops. AND THRIFT SHOPS ARE FULL OF OLD CAMERAS!
My Idea is to weekly, or monthly (don’t know yet) post an article about one of my cameras. So next week, the first one will be posted, about my first camera, the Olympus trip 35. And the week after that (or month) I will show you my second camera, my polaroid image 3. And so on….
I will tell you how I got it, how old it is, and maybe some funny things about the camera!
Here are some pictures of the camera’s I’ve got!

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Have a nice weekend!


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Analogue #1 Thanks mom!

YAY! I just got home from school and my mom was waiting for me in the kitchen. She had made a coffee for me and had this look in her eyes. That look mothers have when they have something for you they know you're going to like.
My mother gave me a leather bag, which was quite heavy and asked me to open it, and so I did.

At first a dusty smell came out of the bag and then I saw what was in it. My mom just got me a new (old) camera! It is a praktika TL1000. It is a 35 mm camera.

I have been collecting old cameras for a few months now and I have a total of 15 cameras. I love the grain and color the pictures of an analogue camera have.

It all began with my olympus trip 35. I had bought it in the local thrift shop for 3 euro's and just wanted to try it so I bought a 35 mm film for it. When I developed the pictures I was sold! The Thing I like the most is that it will always be a surprise whether your pictures look good. And, don't forget the lightleaks.Some of my 110 mm cameras get those lightleaks, but I have one on my olympus trip film too. ( I think something went wrong during developing).



Olly.



picture taken with my olympus trip. (lightleak on the left)



My cat.



SO THANKS MOM! :)