Any advice on beginners vintage cameras?

[sama1998]

Hello everyone! I am new to camera collecting and using vintage cameras. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on cool cameras to get. I already have a sx-70 model 1 and two other 70's cameras. I would also love any advice anyone has to offer. Thanks!!!

[3rdTrick]

What a cool question. I don't know where you are but here in USA we have yard sales and tag sales. I often pick up old rangefinders and folding cameras usually for $5 - $10. Old Polaroids are plentiful and I was looking to collect the whole set of the folding bellows type but I ended up just sticking with the metal bodies. You seem to be interested in the 70s and SX-70 cameras. There were several cameras in the SX-70 lineup and you could look for all of them. There is a good listing on this site:

http://www.polaroid-passion.com/polaroid-cameras.php

Get some Impossible Project film and start shooting your SX-70. When people see you with it they will often have a similar camera they want to get rid of. Many times people just give me a camera when they know I like them. When you pick up an old camera, research it well on the internet and you will learn about those special elusive models in each series. Have fun...
Pete

[sama1998]

First thank you for the advice! I live in the US and got all three of my current cameras at a yard sale. I have also carried my camera around and have been told that they would give me a camera. I do want to get some stuff from impossible but I just don't know if my sx-70 works yet. The other two I have gotten work perfectly but the sx-70 is much more fragile than the others. But I guess I won't know until I get the film! But I do have one question in one of the other cameras I got I found a Kodachrome-12 8mm. Magazine with side one used up. Do you happen to know a place where I can get this developed... Or is there a projector? Thank you for your response!!!

[3rdTrick]

I think you are outta luck with the Kodachrome. The last lab to develop it gave up a few years ago. I think some people are developing it as B&W but not sure if that even works. I use pack film and not SX-70 but there are many people on here who do and can help you with it. Give the Impossible films a try.
Pete

[sama1998]

Lol thx

[LyraBelacqua96]

Good night/morning guys, I’m a little bit sad towards something that happened to my Polaroid pictures. Since yesterday I noticed that the film had like a brown color and I immediately thought that my film expired. I tried it on another Polaroid camera I had and now the worse thing happened, some of the film got stuck on the camera and I somehow got out but the problem is that still it didn’t help a lot and it came out worse because now with those blank film that was left none of them worked and so I became discouraged because I thought it was my camera. I don’t know what to do, and I don’t know if I want to continue trying taking more pictures or just leave it like that.

What should I do?

[xya]

tell us a little more about the camera models concerned, which film you used and how old the film was (expiry date). and maybe a picture of the bad results...