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Any Trekkies finding these old cameras familiar? Part of that is because TOS used the same bare metal and leather aesthetic for their hand held tech. Notice also a central, lens like feature on both the communicator and tricorder.
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I got my Canonet QL17 G-III (that's a mouth full!) because it was my father-in-law's camera when my wife was growing up. She recognized it from the candy stripe film transport indicator on the back. I decked it out in some green leather.

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My Yashica Mat-124 is the so-called "budget Rolleiflex". Twin reflex cameras are magical. They look really cool and you look cool using them. The top lens is for composing and focusing and moves in tandem with the lower taking lens. The ground glass viewfinder looks like a screen.
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Me in the post apocalypse using film made with stone knives and bear skins.
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Polaroid had just filed for bankruptcy, so I got my SX-70 for relatively cheap. This was the first Polaroid camera to use integral film and it's still the best. It's an SLR with glass lens that folds up to the size of a cigarette case.
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I'm making the next couple of Fridays #FilmCameraFriday as I catalog my collection of old cameras with some photos I took with them. This week: the Minolta X-700 which was my father's camera growing up. I have a standard 50mm lens for it as well as a 35mm, 100mm macro with extension tube, and 200mm.