Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

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Thanks. I don't know the age of the oldest camera or the most valuable one. Need to dedicate some time to researching them.
Interesting story: Many years ago, I picked up a large, heavy well made odd camera. Turns out it was a camera from airplane bomber. I really liked. It had a prized position in a large antique china closet full of antiques. Watching TV one night w/ a girlfriend when we hear a loud metallic pop. The camera had disassembled itself inside the china closet. Nothing else was disturbed. I was unable to reassemble the camera. Bummer. Another time I had a heavy Walker percussion pistol in a shelf inside that cabinet. Out if the blue, the shelf holding the gun came loose and caused much damage to other items in the cabinet. Decided it was time to stop using that cabinet to display antiques. Good decision.

 

Anybody remember Johnny Lightning ?

 

I remember thinking of them as an inferior imitation of Hot Wheels -- until they came out with their "Jet Power" models. Those contained a tiny pressure chamber you'd pump up with a hand-operated charging station; when they passed over one spot in the track, it would release a cap on the back of the car, and a little puff of air would accelerate the car. It still didn't do much of anything, but it was so cool to an eight-year-old...

 

It sounds like that antique china cabinet had its own idea of what it should hold and what it shouldn't. Shame about the airplane bomber camera - that sounds like a cool find.

 

I take photos of sunsets as the main hobby.

 

You're right about the cabinet. I do miss that camera.
My G/F was a bit dramatic about it. She claims the camera exploded in the cabinet. (some parts did bounce against the cabinet glass.) After the gun fell I thought it's time stop using that cabinet.

 

That's a very popular hobby, KY.

 

I used to collect bakelite piggy banks with advertising on them. Most banks used to give them as way to encourage saving.

 

In my younger days when I was taking photos with a view camera, I enjoyed salvaging lenses from old folders. In their day, many cameras were fitted with a variety of lens options including upgrades like Goertz Dagors and Planars that cost originally several time more than the camera and standard lens. These were really sharp lenses and usually fitted in high quality shutters that worked well with no servicing. Usually the dial set Compur shutters were used on upgrade lenses. I generally threw away the cameras which usually had broken parts and dry rotted bellows making the lenses dirt cheap.

 

Good point. I've saved several lenses from cameras that disintegrated. I haven't checked them to see if they're anything special. Trying to figure out what to do w/ 'em.

 

I have a few decorative ones mounted in a frame hanging on the wall. I shoot digital but have a 5x7 view rotting in the attic. I went digital and will not go back.

 

What an incredible waste of good whiskey........almost tempted to swoop in there and grab the bottle......not the glass. It may have kooties.

 

You are assuming it is whiskey. Maybe that was poison.

 

Dear Lord, perhaps you are correct.........still, worth a gamble.

 

Good use of the lenses. I'll look into it.
I bought a digital Olympus many years ago. I liked the convenience and the easy editing abilities. However, I was displeased w/ the blacks, shadows & two dimensional quality. Preferred analog film and the zone system in the darkroom. I'm threatening to buy a shutterless DSLR. Thanks for the motivation.

 

I recently bought 1 Johnny Lightning car the "Stiletto". It's a replica of the topper originals....It has an awesome body on it....




I feel in love with the shape of this body.

 

Shhhhh, don't tell your wives! (you're in Utah, right? )

 

yes , but I am not a polygamist. Not married either. Wait...I am married...... to my 3 cats. When I die they get everything.