-- Time for a giveaway! Win a camera! --

Yes! its finally time again! I had promised you guys to do another giveaway as soon as I hit 100 followers! Go follow me and enter the giveaway!

I will personally put all of your names on a piece of paper and put them all in a bag. I pull out ONE of the names out on Saturday!

How to make a chance to win:

1. Make sure you are following me (on glipho), if you’re not, you can’t win.
2. Choose which of the cameras you want.
3. Comment the name of the camera you would like to have on this post.
4. Wait for one week. I will give you guys until Saturday.
5. If you don’t have an e-mail somewhere on your profile or blog, please put it in the comment.
6. You will make a bigger chance to win if you share this article on twitter too! I will put your name in the hat two times if you have shared it! If you do, please write #VintageCameraGiveaway1210 in your tweet so I can find it!

That’s easy right? Now let me show you what cameras you can win!

1) The concord 118.

This is such a fun camera! I brought a similar one with me to Turkey last year and had so much fun taking beautiful! I highly recommend you to bring it with you on vacation. Its so small (just over 10cm wide and 2cm high) it fits in your pocket! Your own little spy camera!  It uses 110mm film. You can buy it here.

 

2) The Kodak Instamatic 33

This super cute camera is  a camera which was developed in the 1960s to simplify the use of film. It uses a 126 mm cartridge. Unfortunately it isn’t sold anymore. You’re lucky if you find it on Ebay!

So go post a comment which one you want! I will announce the winner of the camera in a blog post next week (Saturday).

WOOHP!!

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?

Thrift shop Saturday–Testing typewriter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry for the mistakes. Typewriters do not have a backspace button…

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Analogue #4 - Polaroid land camera 1000

YES! A new week, a new analogue camera blog post!

This one is a really popular one I guess. It’s a really beautiful  camera. In the past few years, camera’s from polaroid became absurdly popular again!  Its my polaroid land camera 1000!! I had bought this one at the flea market in Vreeland. It was only 10 euros!

 

Polaroid used to make instant cameras that you could fold in. (Got one of those too, I will write about that one next week). After producing a series of folding cameras, polaroid started producing large numbers of plastic bodies, non-folding cameras. This cameras used the SX-70 integral film. Which looked like this:

 

 

These where cassettes for 10-15 exposures. They’re still sold online. But watch out! Most of the film sold online is expired, which isn’t a problem if it’s not TO OLD. In 2009, polaroid stopped making films. So your film could be way to old to use, and you would pay way to much for it too! Expired polaroid film can give your pictured a great vintage look though! I would recommend buying film until 2007, everything before that would be to risky. In 2010 there was a company that started producing new film for your polaroid. It was called “the impossible project”. Their film is very different so be sure you want to buy their film if you found it! Here is a video telling something about using film from the impossible project:

 

 

Now, If you want to buy film for polaroid you can find it on Ebay everywhere! even some photography shops still have them!

Last, a little something about the flash. If you want to take pictures in the dark, you would need a flash. You would have to buy a flash bar which is kinda expensive… (13,50 euros)  I’ve got only one, and I can use one flash bar only 5 times, so be careful!

They look funny though:

 

 

If you want to buy this super duper cool camera, there is only one way you can check if its working, and that is using an old film cassette. You put it in the camera and see if it will turn on. There is no other way to check unfortunately.

 

 

And again, as always, the official commercial of the polaroid land 1000 camera! Haha so funny!

 

 

 

Have a nice day! Tomorrow a new post on THE CHAIR!

Thrift shop Saturday Typewriter

YES! finally went to the thrift shop today! The last few weeks I wasn’t able to go because I was so busy with school. I went to the local one in Breukelen…. BAM, BINGO! I bought a beautiful typewriter. At first I was scared it wouldn’t work, but it does! The ink could be empty, but even after all those years, that still works!

I bought this one for a friend of mine, he wanted to have a typewriter and I promised to buy it for him. Next time I’ll buy one for myself, I LOVE THE THING!

Its so pretty:

But, I can’t leave the thrift shop with something for myself… so I went for an old film camera! It is a vintage Bell & Howell Optronic Eye 8mm Movie Camera and it uses 8mm Auto Load Cartridges.  I can’t find a lot information on this one, but I’ll have to de some better research and I will tell some more about it in one of my analogue camera posts. The only thing I could find is that its from the early 60’s

so here is what this awesome camera looks like:

 

Have a good day!!

 

 

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