Readers' second--hand bargains

Daniel Stoneman

All of my cameras are second-hand and they have all been found in different places. They included my father's old Canon T70 from the first era of computerised SLRs (sold as ‘digital cameras' in the '80s), a 1917 Box Brownie from a thrift shop, a gorgeous '70s Russian FED 3 rangefinder from a second-hand camera shop (see sample image on left) and a Japanese TLR – the last that Yashica made. I'm not interested in museum pieces, but cameras I can use – ones that take high-quality images, which these days can be cheaply scanned in and edited in the same way as digital photographs. Perhaps my biggest bargain over the years has been a Zenit TTL in perfect working order, bought from the tip with a lens and flash for only £15! It