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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4988855, member: 19463&quot;]I never collected cameras other than the ones I used. In college I wanted to protect my good camera so I bought a old junker for $25 and used it to record water fights for the school paper.&nbsp; After a couple years, I sold it for $25 and stopped shooting &#039;hazardous&#039; things.&nbsp; It took good photos.&nbsp; It was a Leica A (the first model) and sells for over $1000 today.&nbsp; I did buy broken folding cameras from the 20&#039;s and 30&#039;s when some were available with really high quality lenses and expensive options but most people threw them out when the camera broke or they bought a new one.&nbsp; I used the lenses (Protar, Dagor level glass) on my 4x5 view well into the 1980&#039;s.&nbsp; I still have a few and the shutters still work.&nbsp; They were made loose so they did not jam up as some later ones but accuracy of the times required testing rather than assuming they were correct as marked.&nbsp; I have not exposed film for 20 years now but have some of those shutters displayed as decor now.&nbsp; Many of my photos back then were stereoscopic and exchanged with other practitioners of 3D photos.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://a4.pbase.com/o4/88/582688/1/48413625.ds1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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