On my shelf: the 35's

I find more and more that I am running out of storage space for my cameras. I got rid of one, but I've got three on the way, I just need more room. At least I can say (with the exception of two new additions to the group) that I use all of them. Collectors... do my nut, even though a lot of them are nice people. Anyway, here is a brief summary of my current collection, predominantly so I got to play around with Lightroom some more...

First up, the Akira TC-002 and the Cortland CX-7 (one of the two I haven't yet put a roll through). Two little toys that I picked up recently in the states for a total of $7.50 plus tax. They have identical lenses, but the Akira is very light and plastic, whereas the Cortland is far more substantial (frankly excessive given it's such a poor camera otherwise). These cameras have only one manual functionality, and that is choosing which aperture from the whopping range of 5.6, 6, 11 and 16. The rest is entirely preset. You can see some of the results over at my Akira set on flickr.

This here Minolta Hi-Matic F was my first rangefinder. It belonged to my dad before I... liberated it. I remember playing around with it as a kid, before I caught the photography bug. Those horrible cracks occured when the US customs people searched my bags and then didn't repack them correctly. That'll teach me to put things in my case. I love this camera; small, easy to use, just a shame about the lack of manual override.

My 'new-to-me' Canon Canonet QL19 that I picked up for $50 in Laramie, WY. It needs a CLA, and the lovely folks over at Camserve have told me they'll do it all in for £30 + VAT. Once that is done you'll get a proper walkthrough.

My Canon AE1. A really nice feeling camera, if a tad on the heavy side. But my god does the shutter sound gorgeous. This came from my late grandfather, and it is still waiting for a test roll to go through it.

This here is my Olympus OM20. This was my first SLR, and I love it to pieces. It belonged to my mother, so it is yet another camera with history. It is so small, and so sexy, and I will use it until it falls apart. I've just got a 28mm f2.8 Mitsuki so am putting a test roll through for that, which I will let you all know about too.

Finally, I've got my Trip 35, but instead of letting this post get ridiculously long I'll point you over to 35mm Tripping.