![]() This small entry-level camera from the late 1940s has maintained popularity partly because of how relatively inexpensive they are, how easily they can be cleaned, and the fact that they take 120 (or 620 if you can still find any) roll film. Purchase Edited by HiConsumption, Photo Credit: Fabian Reus / Yutaka Seki Kodak Brownie Hawkeye All these years later the camera is still an impressive piece of equipment. In addition to the new mechanism, designers made everything about the camera modular – allowing photographers to use a wide variety of different lenses, film backs, and viewfinders. Equipped with a shutter system that was built to replace the old focal plane models, it boasted the fastest shutter for the brand at that time – 1/500th of a second (hence the name). Introduced in 1957 by the iconic brand’s namesake, Victor Hasselblad, this camera body was a completely new design direction for the company. Purchase Edited by HiConsumption, Photo Credit: Andrew Sales / Jay DeFehr Hasselblad 500c While it was still in production, however, they were used to shoot everything from presidential elections to high speed auto racing, making them well known enough to have ended up on the masthead of the New York Daily News. This 4 by 5 inch large format version was released in 1947 and produced for just under thirty years before it was discontinued in 1973. Despite being large they were relatively light due to the fact that they used a focal plane shutter and an external viewfinder. You couldn’t tell by looking at it now, but the Graflex Crown Graphic Special was the first choice among many press photographers. Purchase Edited by HiConsumption, Photo Credit: Alan L / Robert Graflex 4X5 ![]() If you are looking to pick one of these old school shooters up for yourself to capture some shots in the wild, just know that it uses the old FD lens mount. Canon’s A1, released in 1976, was actually the first camera body to have a fully automatic setting that would control shutter speed and aperture depending on what the light meter was reading – a function that has become ubiquitous among cameras today. When you read a list about ‘vintage’ gear you don’t usually expect to have the first item have a microprocessor in it, but here we are. Edited by HiConsumption, Photo Credit: Pointnshoot / LunLun:) Cannon A1 Take a scroll through and check it out for yourself. ![]() Of course the cameras themselves are cool, but what about the images they produce? In addition to showcasing each device, we’ve also decided to focus on images captured by each of these vintage pieces – taken by professionals and amateurs alike. A lot of these cameras can be found online and taken home for your own shooting out in the backwoods or in the city. Below you can find a series of cameras that are still floating around out there long after production. Why? Because we love the quality of images these classic cameras produce, and more generally speaking, we’re fascinated by the history behind these old gadgets. ![]() We just want to highlight what we think are 12 of the best vintage cameras for capturing those perfect moments. Whatever point you could try and make about the value of learning to work with a machine that doesn’t immediately provide you with an image, or argument about how the different tonal qualities of various color or black and white films can’t be paralleled has been made ten times over and hundreds of times better already. The number of essays, books, and films that have been made to emphasize the importance of film photography in an age of digital images is beyond counting. ![]()
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