What is your oldest camera?

My 2 oldest film cameras and my oldest digital.

That Exakta was my main camera for 20 years. I never realised at the time that it was "left-handed", it seemed perfectly natural to me (I hadn't used anything different).

Other cameras like this….

Exakta VX IIA (1957) by Marc Aubry, sur Flickr

Three PC connectors. One for FP synch, I'm guessing. One for X synch. What's the other one for?

M "flash bulbs"

Review: Ihagee Exakta Varex IIa (VX IIa) 135 (35mm) Film Camera

beyondtheaperture.com/2021/05/review-ihagee-exakta-varex-iia-vx-iia-135-35mm-film-camera/

See: The Other Weirdness

M Contact
F Contact
X Contact

These are recently purchased versions of the two cameras that I learned on. The Voigtländer was a loaner and after I returned it I purchased the FTb (circa 1972).

I don't own any really old cameras, but I got a somewhat old one because I wanted the lens on it...

I just looked it up, so I hope the information is correct... it seems to be an Ihagee EXA II from the early 1960s:

Interesting topic by the way - I created a similar one about the oldest lenses in the Adapted lens talk section and linked to this one, because I suspect there might be some overlap.

The image above was shot with a 100 year old Voigtländer Heliar lens.

That's my usual reason :)

You should open a thread and introduce us to his lenses (with photos) 😃

Another old camera that I like is the

No.1a Folding Pocket model C (1907-09)

No.1a Folding Pocket model C (1907-09) by Marc Aubry, sur Flickr

I will try to mention a couple of the oldest ones in the thread I mentioned:

What are your oldest lenses?

Given your incredible collection I hope that you might have some unusual old lenses to share there as well! 👍

And if you're willing to read some more about a couple of my lesser known favorites, you could also take a look at my little article on Agfa enlarging lenses! (But I guess that's for Agfa fans only 😂)

Thank you very much for the info. 👍

Kodak from around 1913

I have quite a few old cameras. Some were given to me by friends and family because they assumed I collect them ... some were purchased off ebay by my partner because he thought they looked cool (and were cheap)
Here's one of those purchases:
Kodak Six-20 Folding Brownie
Manufactured 1937-1940 (according to camerawiki.org)
Kodak Folding Brownie six-20 by Analog Diaries, on Flickr

Here's the oldest of the camera's gifted to me (in this case, by my father-in-law)
Hit subminature camera
Possibly from the 1950s or early 60s
Hit camera with film (Caffenol) by Analog Diaries, on Flickr

The advantage of this small Hit 16 mm is that they don't take up much space on a shelf.

Hit by Marc Aubry, sur Flickr

Q.R.S. kamra f:5 (1928)

Q.R.S. kamra f:5 (1928) by Marc Aubry, sur Flickr

Another camera that I find interesting

35mm film

camera-wiki.org/wiki/QRS_Kamra

Not old at all by the standards set in previous posts, but still... Pentax K1000. No picture because I loaned it to my niece! It's not super vintage, but it was (and I think still is) a great camera to learn the fundamentals on.

When I was about 10 I had a brownie but it's long gone and I don't think I still have any pictures from it.