British made camera equipment

filmforever

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9 May 2011 - 8:40 PM

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I wonder if there's an entrepeneur out there who'd have the vision to start up production of a British made film SLR?....perhaps under license to say, Leica with an updated version of the R6 for us film enthusiasts?......Naturally it would be a small production line at first, with the accent on superb quality. It would be expensive....(but then so is a Nikon D3s).

Can't be done?.....Well Aston Martin manage it.....a small company manufacturing desirable cars, for which there is around a 2 year world-wide waiting list.

Well some dreams do come true!

derekp (e2 Member)

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27 Jan 2012 - 9:21 PM

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The first 35mm camera I had was an Ilford Advocate camera. It had a metal body and was white and came with a4.5aperture lens but there was another version with 3.5 lens. Derekp

rabdhu

2 Feb 2012 - 4:48 PM

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@ filmforever = now the Nikon F5 is down to £500 or less, you'd never be able to compete witha quality film SLR that matched. Even you used someone elses' lens mount with consequent royalties, a helluva tall order. Pity though, love the idea.

Paul Morgan (Challenge Team)

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2 Feb 2012 - 5:11 PM

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Quote: Here's a simple but tough challenge. Take photos using nothing but a British digital camera!

I`ve got an old British made Kodak Brownie Six-20.

How about I rip the guts out of an old digicam then mount it inside, would that count CB

kodachrome

2 Feb 2012 - 6:38 PM

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Kodak made colour and B@W film in their Harrow plant, North West London and it was exported all round the world.

Taylor Hobson made high end tele lenses usually for photo Recci cameras on RAF aircraft during WW-2. The lens elements were all hand ground.

Pete