{"title":"Under $100","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"formatt-hitech-ir-cut-filter-cine-camera","title":"4x5.65 Formatt-Hitech Firecrest Hot Mirror Filter (FC 650NM Cut)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e88-Day Confirmed Operation. Warranty Fully functional and well-maintained, this filter doesn't have a scratch on it and the soft case is in perfect condition. Scroll down to learn why this filter thinks it's remarkable.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eThe Firecrest 4x5.65\" IR Cut Filter is the quiet perfectionist of modern cinematography. It blocks infrared light above 650nm, preserving true colour and saving digital images from the magenta mischief of high-density ND setups.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eDesigned for early digital cinema cameras with weak or no IR filtration such as older Blackmagic, RED, and ARRI models, it slips easily into standard matte boxes and works with unflappable precision.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eIts rare-earth Firecrest coating is sandwiched between layers of Schott Superwite glass, combining clarity, durability, and optical grace in one pane.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eBefore sensors learned subtlety, filters like this kept colour honest, and they still do.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eFor cinematographers chasing older cameras, it's a quiet hero in front of the lens, precise, dependable, and just a little miraculous.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Formatt-Hitech","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141713379515,"sku":"FHT-FLT-FRC-650IR-4565-EX-100126","price":98.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/FHT-FLT-FRC-650IR-4565-EX-100126-formatt-hitech-firecrest-650nm-ir-cut-filter-4x5.65-cine-used-0001.jpg?v=1763238749"},{"product_id":"ernst-leitz-prontor-double-shutter-release-cable-leica-visofelx","title":"SOLD: Ernst Leitz Prontor Double Shutter-release Cable","description":"\u003cp class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e88-Day Confirmed Operation Warranty. If you need a Leitz double cable release, it doesn’t get much nicer than this. It’s still in the original box (which has some cosmetic marks from tape residue), likely unused, and ready for any double cable release task. We’re not sure how useful these are today, but if you need one, you’ve found it. Scroll down for the details, assuming you have the time and the curiosity. Both are optional.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\"\u003eLet's talk about a piece of German engineering so specific, so utterly niche, that you have to admire the audacity of anyone who thought to manufacture it in the first place. The Ernst Leitz Prontor double shutter-release cable is, at its heart, a solution to a problem most people didn't know they had: how do you fire two shutters at once without growing a third hand?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\"\u003eThis isn't some flimsy afterthought but a proper mechanical accessory with metal fittings, flexible sheaths that actually flex, and plungers that move with the kind of tactile satisfaction that makes you want to press them just to hear the click. Leave it to the Germans to engineer a cable release with the same fervour they'd apply to a suspension bridge. One imagines a team of engineers in lab coats, debating the optimal plunger resistance over schnapps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\"\u003eBuilt for studio photographers, macro obsessives, and anyone wrestling with a Visoflex setup, it trips two shutters nearly simultaneously, which is either incredibly useful or the answer to a question no one asked, depending on your perspective. The Germans, bless them, never met a problem too small to solve with breathtaking thoroughness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\"\u003eBut here's the thing: it works. Beautifully. The dual-cable design is simple, durable, and purely mechanical in the way that means it'll outlast whatever digital gadget you're currently nursing through its third firmware update.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\"\u003eJust smooth action, solid construction, and the quiet confidence of something built to last. We love it for exactly those reasons. It's not flashy, doesn't announce itself, but pick one up and you'll understand what craftsmanship used to mean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\"\u003eThe Prontor double cable is more than dependable. It's a reminder that some problems were solved so well the first time, they didn't need solving again. 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This camera is in great cosmetic condition. The viewfinder has been cleaned, the light seals replaced, and the shutter speeds are within acceptable tolerance. There is light dust inside the lens, but it doesn’t affect image quality. The clockwork motor works flawlessly. The built-in meter doesn’t work, but the camera is fully usable and makes a great user camera. Scroll down for the details, assuming you have the time and the curiosity. Both are optional.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-c3d566f5-7fff-c389-ed63-9a99f3e45d45\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn 1964, executives stared at the Fujica Half the way some men stare at a perfectly good martini before adding umbrellas and thought, \"You know what this needs? More complexity.\" Because apparently, advancing film by hand wasn't elegant enough, so they added a spring-wound mechanical motor that automatically advances the film and cocks the shutter for up to 20 shots per wind, giving the camera a distinctive clockwork feel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\"\u003eIt's brilliantly unnecessary, like adding an automatic transmission to a bicycle. The Swiss make watches. The Japanese make watches that also take pictures. 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They took a practical camera and added mechanical wizardry that actually enhances the shooting experience. It's clever and wonderfully Japanese: solving problems with more precision than strictly necessary and somehow making you grateful they bothered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fujifilm Fujica","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164462629051,"sku":"FJC-HLF-ZFC-FXL-EX-100059","price":98.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/FJC-HLF-ZFC-FXL-EX-100059-fujifilm-fujica-half-frame-drive-35mm-rangefinder-vintage-film-camera-used-0001.jpg?v=1766973089"},{"product_id":"leitz-wetzlar-ctoom-leica-flash-bracket","title":"Leitz Wetzlar CTOOM Flash Bracket","description":"\u003cp class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e88-Day Confirmed Operation Warranty. 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It's ridiculous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\"\u003eBut this is Leica we're talking about, and if they decided to call it CTOOM, then by God, CTOOM it shall be, and you'll buy it anyway because it's engineered to survive the apocalypse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\"\u003eThe Leitz Wetzlar CTOOM, also called the Leica CTOOM (in case you thought the name might improve with repetition), is a vintage flash bracket that mounts an external unit to a Leica rangefinder, positioning it off-axis to reduce red-eye and provide more controlled lighting. 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It adjusts over 180 degrees with the kind of smooth action that suggests someone in Wetzlar spent an entire afternoon getting the tension exactly right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\"\u003eIn excellent cosmetic condition with no wear, it looks like it was used twice, then carefully stored by someone who understood what they had.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\"\u003eIt includes the original box, which is collector-speak for \"this will cost you,\" making it a highly desirable collectible for adding authentic flash capability to a vintage Leica. In the end, the CTOOM is peak Leica: brilliantly engineered, absurdly well-made, and named like someone sneezed during the branding meeting. But you'll want it anyway, because that's what Leica does. They make you forget the name and remember the craftsmanship. 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Scroll down for the details, if you’ve got the time and curiosity. Both are optional.\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-bb47de12-7fff-33d3-710f-555027c38fa2\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSome tools don’t wow you, but you can’t do without them. The Swiss Army knife isn’t the sharpest or fanciest, but when you need it, it’s a lifesaver. The Nikon AF Nikkor Zoom 35-70mm f\/3.3-4.5, introduced in 1986 as a kit lens for early Nikon autofocus SLRs, is the photographic equivalent: practical, reliable, and always ready when you need it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLightweight, compact, and affordable, it's an all-purpose zoom covering wide-angle to short telephoto with eight elements in eight groups and a mixed metal-plastic construction that feels exactly as premium as that description suggests. 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It’s content to be solid, competent, and quietly sure of its place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis lens earned its modest reputation the hard way. Excellent optics, all metal construction, and a focus throw so long and smooth you could achieve enlightenment somewhere near minimum focus. It’s compact for a telephoto and purposeful in the hand. It reflects Pentax engineering at its most restrained. Designed by people who believed tools should last and didn’t see any reason to shout about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the way “Takumar” isn’t a name dreamt up over a three sake lunch. It honours Takuma Kajiwara, a painter and photographer of the pictorialist era, whose brother Kumao founded Asahi Optical in 1919 and fused art and engineering into a single, sensible idea. The 135mm f\/3.5 carries that legacy without ceremony. It’s not the lens you reach for first, or even third. 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Spoiler: it has a point.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn a suburban home in Scarborough, sometime around 1958, a mother pointed a small black box at her children and pressed a button. For around 1\/50th of a second, the room held still. The Kodak Brownie Holiday Flash didn't ask much of anyone: it had one speed, one aperture, and a lens made of plastic that already had opinions about the future, most of them foggy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCanadian Kodak Co., Limited, produced it from 1953 to 1964. It was a modest, Bakelite-bodied little democratizer stamped with red \"MADE IN CANADA\" pride. In doing so, it handed the act of memory-making to people who'd never once thought about f-stops, which is to say, most people, which is to say, the point entirely.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's a camera that cannot zoom, cannot focus, and cannot compensate for a trembling hand or the November light. Yet, it was trusted, with birthdays and Christmases and the faces of people we'd give anything to see again. The flash, a Kodalite Midget running on AA batteries, fired its bulb in the heartbeat just before the shutter opened. It added the illusion of control to what was really an act of faith.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe vignetting darkens the corners; the slow shutter blurs the dog mid-leap; the plastic lens, if you're not careful, goes milky with age, as if the camera itself is choosing to forget. 127 film is nearly gone now, so the devoted respool 120 or MacGyver in 35mm adapters, because some things are worth the inconvenience of keeping alive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat's remarkable isn't that the Brownie Holiday Flash took great photographs. It didn't, not reliably. But nobody minded. Maybe people loved it, unreservedly, the way one loves anything that fails you so consistently you mistake it for character.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kodak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48126343905467,"sku":"BROW-KODA-35MM-F1.8-FILM-127-100162","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/download_700eb68f-4617-4be2-9178-ae10f0b2ae9f.jpg?v=1784842352"},{"product_id":"kodak-kodak-brownie-twin-20-camera","title":"Kodak Brownie Twin 20 Camera","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Kodak Brownie Twin 20 debuted in 1959. It was unassuming and slightly boxy, but possessed hidden depths. Produced until 1964 and dressed in molded plastic with Art Deco ribbing that suggests it once had grander ambitions, this compact little camera shot twelve square 6x6 cm frames on 620 film. It captured the world in neat, democratic squares, long before Instagram made that fashionable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIts meniscus f\/11 lens, a single curved element, delivered images sharp enough at the centre to make you feel like a genius, while the edges softened into something impressionistic, as if the camera itself was editing reality for effect. The Japanese describe a lens like this as 柔らかな (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eyawaraka-na\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) which means it has a “gentle way”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThree aperture settings, a rotary shutter and three focus zones (close, mid, distant, the Holy Trinity of casual photography) gave users more creative latitude than the typical box camera. However, \"creative latitude\" is perhaps generous for a camera that often features shutter lag.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe \"Twin\" in its name refers to dual viewfinders, one at eye-level and one at the waist, each etched with square guidelines. Film advances with double exposure prevention, because the Twin 20 is thoughtful that way, protecting you from your own enthusiasm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe UK models wear their provenance stamped on the base like a quiet hallmark, and the camera's close cousin, the Brownie Reflex 20, lacks the eye-level finder entirely. It’s a distinction that, to the devoted, matters enormously.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFinding 620 film today requires the sort of cheerful persistence usually reserved for antiquarian booksellers, though it's worth noting that 120 film can be re-spooled onto 620 spools as a common workaround. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHurrah.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePlease note: this camera has never been introduced to film by us and has no idea what a photograph even is. 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Spoiler: it has a point.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Kodak Brownie 44A* is a palm-sized marvel of 1960s British ingenuity that somehow convinced an entire generation it could make them artists. Born from the unlikely alliance of Dr. F.H.G. Pitt and industrial designer Kenneth Grange, this little black plastic box won a Design Award in 1960.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt asks almost nothing of you: one of two aperture settings, a 1\/40-second shutter that fires with the satisfying snap of someone making a decision they'll never regret, and a curved film plane quietly performing optical miracles so your edges stay sharp even when your intentions aren't.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe polythene Ever-Ready cover (integral, flexible, vaguely optimistic) was designed to protect the lens without the indignity of a separate case.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMany were made; some covers grew brittle, as protective things often do; intact specimens are now rare. But in the right hands and the right light, it's a small and lovely thing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e*The 44A was born at the 1958 Brussels World Fair, where Kenneth Grange, a man apparently constitutionally incapable of designing anything ugly, met Kodak's Dr. F.H.G. Pitt, who understood optics the way most of us understand breathing. One brought beauty; the other brought science; together they produced a camera that won a 1960 Design Centre Award and launched a twenty-year partnership. 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Spoiler: it has a point.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Magimatic X50 arrived in 1974 not with fanfare, but as a bank premium. It was the kind of thing handed across a teller's counter alongside a toaster or a savings bond, as if to say: here, have some memories with your modest interest rate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSold by Imperial Camera Corp., Costa Rican by manufacture, anonymous by design and built to be mistaken for a Kodak. A brushed aluminum faceplate whispers serious instrument while the 43mm meniscus lens, optimized for four to ten feet, has strong opinions about where you should stand.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 1\/100 shutter doesn't negotiate. It simply clicks, shallowly, with the conviction of a man who has already made up his mind. That mechanical firing pin striking its Magicube's percussion primer like a tiny, determined hammer? Battery-free, thank you very much.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 126 cartridges it feeds on were killed by Kodak in 1999, and yet here the X50 remains. It’s beloved by those patient enough to hand-load 35mm film into its vintage shell in a darkroom, which tells you everything about human nature: we will go to extraordinary lengths to use a tool that never expected much from us in the first place.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kodak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48201918611643,"sku":"BROW-KODA-35MM-F1.8-FILM-126-100191","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/download_cbae5bfa-4104-4bd5-9c5d-e81c559c31d9.jpg?v=1785966567"},{"product_id":"vanguard-spartus-camera","title":"Vanguard Spartus Camera","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: AS IS. Not film tested. This Vanguard Spartus\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis in remarkably good condition for its age. Perfect candidate for display, maybe even shooting. Scroll down to learn why this camera thinks it’s remarkable. Spoiler: it has a point.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHerold Products operating out of Chicago during those optimistic years between 1960 and 1962, produced the Vanguard Spartus at a moment when even a toy-grade camera needed to look like it could survive re-entry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCast in high-impact plastic with a brushed aluminum faceplate that catches the light like a Studebaker hood ornament, this particular unit belongs to the 1961 Rocket-type batch. A single uncoated Meniscus element doing its slightly myopic best.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt shoots 127 roll film, twelve exposures at 4cm x 4cm nominal, through a 1\/50th-second rotary shutter and a sliding plate that shifts between f\/11 for B\u0026amp;W and f\/16 for colour*, as though it understood that Kodachrome deserved one additional stop of respect.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe eye-level viewfinder is bright. There's no double-exposure prevention on the ratcheted metal advance knob, which means the shutter will snap as many times as your finger cares to ask.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSome units came in brown-tinted bodies; this one didn't, but isn't it enough that it exists at all, this compact, space-age artifact, a camera that was never quite serious and is, for precisely that reason, impossible to forget?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e*The shift to f\/16 for colour might seem counterintuitive today since colour film was slower, but it was a design choice intended to force users to only shoot colour in the brightest possible light, ensuring a \"safe\" exposure for a camera with a slow 1\/50s shutter.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vanguard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48201918644411,"sku":"BROW-VANG-35MM-F1.8-FILM-127-100192","price":18.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/download_96da3722-cb6f-4276-81e2-378c3f330b01.jpg?v=1785966568"},{"product_id":"kodak-starmite-ii-camera","title":"Kodak Starmite II Camera","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: AS IS. 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It's utterly unremarkable, and yet that's the whole point.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Kodak Starmite II wasn't trying to seduce you; it was trying to democratize you, to hand a twelve-shot slice of memory-making to anyone with a couple of dollars and a sunny afternoon, from Rochester to Coburg to Paris, where the French, of course, insisted on renaming it the Starluxe II.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's a camera of contradictions: sharp at the center, dreamy at the edges, which is rather like most people's recollections of the Sixties. It features a rotary shutter that fires with a metallic ping so charmingly inelegant it sounds like someone flicking a tin can.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe dual-aperture lever toggles between f\/11 and f\/16. 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This is because some moments, it seems, aren't worth capturing if you can't see them properly.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe double-exposure prevention lock is a masterpiece of quiet wisdom: the shutter simply won't fire until you've advanced the film. This is the camera's way of reminding you that you can't tell the same story twice and expect it to mean something new. 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Spoiler: it has a point.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Holly Hobbie* Camera is a Hong Kong-born, 126-cartridge toy from 1978 that looked you square in the eye and said, \"I'm a real camera,\" with the same conviction a child uses to insist their cardboard box is a spaceship.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLicensed through American Greetings and dressed in teal polystyrene, it wears rigid, non-collapsing bellows, mimicking the folding cameras of proper photographers without any of their pretensions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIts single plastic meniscus lens (fixed at f\/11, shooting somewhere between 1\/60th and 1\/100th of a second) is said to produce a sweet central sharpness ringed by vignetting and spherical aberration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe guillotine shutter fires with a metallic snap and the knurled winding dial occasionally slips, gifting you overlapping frames that feel less like mistakes and more like the camera's editorial opinion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Denise Holly Hobbie, bless her industrious heart, conjured a billion-dollar fortune from a bonneted child standing in a field. 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Spoiler: it has a point.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in Rochester in 1939 and still charming some eighty-five years later, the Kodak Baby Brownie Special is what happens when industrial design has a genuinely good day. Walter Dorwin Teague*, the man who also gave us the Boeing 307 interior and the Texaco service station, wrapped a humble little picture-taker in moulded Bakelite and dressed it in Art Deco ribbing, producing something that looks frankly too elegant for its price point.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat cream plastic winding knob and shutter button, swapped in somewhere between 1943 and 1954 when wartime aluminum shortages forced Kodak's hand, are not flaws so much as biographical details.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe fixed-focus uncoated meniscus lens, a modest 60mm at f\/11 or f\/16, makes no apologies and asks for none. 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It features a self-capping rotary shutter that clicks with the satisfaction of a well-made thing, and an optical finder that's accurate, honest, and charmingly unbothered by everything beyond ten feet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Walter Dorwin Teague was the man who looked at a camera, a perfectly serviceable, thoroughly unglamorous box for capturing light, and decided it had cheekbones. As one of the first corporate \"consultant designers,\" which is what they called visionaries before the title came with a corner office and a kombucha budget, he applied Machine Age aerodynamics and sleek geometry to objects that had previously asked only to be useful, as if usefulness were somehow not enough.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kodak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48201918775483,"sku":"BROW-KODA-35MM-F1.8-FILM-127-100196","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/download_c6a491f6-b106-44cb-bb4f-419617b760db.jpg?v=1785966573"},{"product_id":"kodak-baby-brownie-camera","title":"Kodak Baby Brownie Camera","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: AS IS. Not film tested. This \u003cem\u003eBaby Brownie has a bit of corrosion on the viewfinder, as shown in the photo. Otherwise it's in surprisingly good shape.\u003c\/em\u003eScroll down to learn why this camera thinks it’s remarkable. Spoiler: it has a point.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Baby Brownie is what the Depression produced when it briefly paused from ruining everything to offer ordinary people the gift of memory. It's four million units of ribbed Bakelite proove that someone, somewhere, thought the huddled masses deserved a hobby.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWalter Dorwin Teague's* 1934 ribbed Bakelite shell isn't just a design choice; it's a philosophy. It’s the belief that beauty and austerity aren't mutually exclusive, and that a camera costing less than a good meal could still have the dignity of architecture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt weighs less than a decent flask and asks nothing of your intellect. It features a fixed aperture, a fixed shutter, and a meniscus lens so imperfect they had to bend the film track to accommodate its failings. We'll admit, that's a more elegant solution than most of us manage with our own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere's no double-exposure lock, because the camera extends you a trust you probably haven't earned. The Bakelite can get brittle with age, especially at the latch, as if the camera's slowly relinquishing its grip on this world. But that winding knob still clicks with the loud, satisfying ratchet of a thing that knows what it is.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt darkens the corners of every frame it touches. Call it a flaw if you must, but we call it editorial. It never bothered to have a serial number, which makes four million of them anonymous as regret and twice as persistent. You can keep the camera clicking by purchasing boutique 127 film from specialty manufacturers, adapting standard 35mm rolls for a lo-fi \"sprocket hole\" look, or manually trimming and re-spooling 120 film to fit the original 46mm dimensions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Walter Dorwin Teague was the man Kodak hired in 1928 when they realized that making cameras look like plumbing fixtures was, commercially speaking, a limitation. He was one of the first \"consultant designers\" summoned by a major corporation, which is to say, the first person paid handsomely to tell engineers that beauty exists. His Art Deco sensibilities and Machine Age aerodynamics produced the Vanity Kodaks, the Bantam Special, and the Baby Brownie. In doing so, he proved that the American public would buy almost anything, provided it had sufficiently pleasing geometry.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kodak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48201918808251,"sku":"BROW-KODA-35MM-F1.8-FILM-127-100197","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/download_10ad6a4c-cefe-42d8-be08-7c8c81c4139a.jpg?v=1785966574"},{"product_id":"kodak-disc-4000-camera","title":"Kodak Disc 4000 Camera","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-bb47de12-7fff-33d3-710f-555027c38fa2\"\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: AS IS. Not film tested, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ebut it comes with a 'Kodak Demonstration Disc'. \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eScroll down to learn why this camera thinks it’s remarkable. Spoiler: it has a point.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe engineers who designed the Kodak Disc 4000 weren’t fools. That's what makes the whole thing so interesting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Kodak Disc 4000 arrived in February of 1982 with the kind of fanfare reserved for things that are either genuinely revolutionary or spectacularly misguided. It was, in the way interesting failures can be, both at once.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt housed the first mass-produced aspheric lens in a consumer camera, a 12.5mm f\/2.8 four-element optic that Kodak's engineers had genuinely agonized over. This was paired with a custom ASIC managing a dual-speed electronic shutter and a CdS sensor doing its earnest best to make every sunlit picnic and dimly-lit birthday party look equally mediocre.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe brushed-aluminum front plate felt serious, and the sliding lens cover that doubled as a power lock felt designed. The little electronic whirr-click of the internal motor rotating the film disc felt, to 1982 ears, like the sound of tomorrow. It wasn't. Kodak quietly killed the camera in the late 80s and the film in 1999.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExpired vintage stock produces results that could generously be called \"impressionistic.\" Its overall design is often incorrectly labeled as a rangefinder by people on eBay who've confused the appearance of sophistication with the thing itself. It's a mistake, it turns out, that Kodak also made.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kodak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48201918841019,"sku":"NONT-KODA-35MM-F1.8-FILM-DISC-100198","price":18.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/download_866facc2-bc71-41b7-985a-4fc983e844d6.jpg?v=1785966576"},{"product_id":"kodak-ektramax-110-camera","title":"Kodak Ektramax 110 Camera","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-bb47de12-7fff-33d3-710f-555027c38fa2\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: AS IS. Not film tested. Overall not great shape for the body. Some corrosion on the battery terminals and debris in the edges. Lens appears clear. \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eScroll down to learn why this camera thinks it’s remarkable. Spoiler: it has a point.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel md-content enable-luminous-fast-follows enable-updated-hr-color stronger tutor-markdown-rendering\" id=\"model-response-message-contentr_edc539a4fe2f6ae9\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" dir=\"\"\u003eEvery once in a while, an object shows up with something to prove, and isn't that always the most interesting kind?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" dir=\"\"\u003eIn 1978, Kodak, a company perfectly content to sell the world cheerful, forgettable snapshots, decided to make a camera with opinions: the Ektramax, a 110-format pocket camera that looked at the Canon 110ED and the Pentax Auto 110 and said, hold my beer.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" dir=\"\"\u003eIt packed a 25mm f\/1.9 Ektar lens, one of the first mass-produced aspheric lenses ever handed to an amateur, into a body still small enough to call itself a \"pocket camera,\" though that's a bit like calling a Great Dane a lapdog.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" dir=\"\"\u003eThis copy, serial 637816, dates to somewhere around late 1979 or 1980, though Kodak, in its infinite wisdom, kept no registry of individual units, so we're left doing archaeology with a camera that still takes better pictures than most of us deserve. Feed it something like Lomography Tiger 200 today and the thing still performs a small miracle: shallow depth of field from a film format designed for grandmothers photographing casseroles, indoor shots with a clarity that shouldn't be possible from a negative smaller than a postage stamp.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" dir=\"\"\u003eIt has its indignities, of course: a battery door latch with the structural integrity of a stale cracker, a flash capacitor that fails with the theatrical timing of a diva, a girth that makes \"pocket\" feel like false advertising, but that's the price of ambition, isn't it?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" dir=\"\"\u003eThe Ektramax never got the empire it was promised, but it left behind a small, stubborn proof that even the humblest format can be made to sing, if only someone's brave enough to ask it to.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kodak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48201918873787,"sku":"SUBM-KODA-25-F1.9-FILM-110-100199","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/download_1b054907-8ee5-480a-b767-5845a7617d7f.jpg?v=1785966577"},{"product_id":"lee-filters-foundation-kit-mk1-100mm-holder","title":"LEE Filters Foundation Kit MK1 100mm Lens Filter Holder MK1","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-bb47de12-7fff-33d3-710f-555027c38fa2\"\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: 88-Day Confirmed Operation Warranty. Cosmetically in excellent shape and with its original soft pouch. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAdapter ring sold separately. Scroll down to read its story. Or skip it and just look at the picture (yes only one). We won't judge. Much.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLEE Filters Foundation Kit MK1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e held its ground at the top of the landscape photography world for over twenty-five years before the LEE100 arrived in 2019 to relieve it of duty.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe holder is built from a high-impact glass-filled nylon composite and brass with the no-nonsense conviction of something designed to survive both a Scottish hillside and a photographer's impatience, it holds two to four 100mm filters. It rotates a full 360 degrees for precise alignment and slims to a single slot when wide-angle lenses demand humility. It announces each filter's secure placement with a spring-loaded brass pin that clicks with the satisfying finality of a well-made argument.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOf course, it has its quirks. That same pin has a mischievous habit of popping loose at inopportune moments. Slot adjustments require a screwdriver (because apparently the MK1 believes preparation is a virtue), and light leaks will find you if you're careless, which is the filter holder's way of insisting you pay attention.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd yet photographers who've used both will tell you, with the quiet certainty of people who've earned their opinion, that they still reach for the MK1. They do so not in spite of its demands, but because a tool that requires something of you tends to give something back.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48263627276475,"sku":"FILT-LEE-100204","price":68.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/lee-filters-foundation-kit-mk1-100mm-holder-pouch.jpg?v=1787320932"},{"product_id":"lee-filters-pch-3-triple-100mm-filter-pouch","title":"LEE Filters PCH-3 Triple 100mm Lens Filter Pouch","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-bb47de12-7fff-33d3-710f-555027c38fa2\"\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: 88-Day Confirmed Operation Warranty. Cosmetically in excellent shape. Pouch only. Scroll down to read its story. Or skip it and look at the picture (just one, but it's lovely). We won't judge. Much.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSomewhere on a rain-soaked ridge, a landscape photographer is patting their jacket pockets with increasing urgency. The light is doing that thing, that impossible, fleeting thing it does for approximately four minutes every autumn morning, and the Big Stopper is somewhere.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen their hand finds it: the LEE PCH-3. It's as slim and unassuming as a paperback novel. Its touch-fastening flap opens with a whisper rather than the theatrical crinkle of lesser pouches.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's a small thing, made from durable nylon with a velvety interior that coddles up to three 100mm filters. That could be a Big Stopper and two GNDs, or whatever combination of glass and resin represents your particular theory of light. It asks almost nothing of you in return except that you do not drop it into a stream, since waterproof it is not, a limitation the pouch seems entirely unbothered by.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart of LEE's Foundation Kit era, it has evolved in minor ways over the years while stubbornly refusing to change its essential character. Photographers have quietly doubled it as a hardware pouch for adapter rings, holders and small flasks of booze, because a well-designed thing always ends up doing more than it promised.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's not rare, not glamorous, and not the piece anyone photographs for their gear-flat lays (except us). And yet the market values it with the steady, undramatic loyalty reserved for things that simply never let you down.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48263627571387,"sku":"FILT-LEE-100205","price":38.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/lee-filters-pch-1-padded-filter-pouch.jpg?v=1787323393"},{"product_id":"lee-filters-little-stopper-100mm-filter-nd-1-8","title":"LEE Filters Little Stopper 100mm 6-stop ND Lens Filter","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: AS IS. This filter has chips in two corners as seen in the photos. The foam gasket is still intact and we've tested it with no issues. That being said it's sold as-is. No warranty, no returns. For the adventurous type who likes their gear with a little mystery. Scroll down for the details, assuming you have the time and the curiosity. Both are optional.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt says something about the landscape photography community, something affectionate, slightly exasperated, and entirely true, that they took one look at LEE's original Big Stopper. That legendary 10-stop behemoth that turns midday into midnight and rivers into silk, and collectively said: yes, but what if we didn't want quite so much of a good thing?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd so the Little Stopper arrived. It features 6 stops of optical density in a 100x100mm square of high-quality glass. It's positioned with the quiet confidence of a middle child who knows exactly where they fit.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt 1.8 optical density and 64x light reduction, it occupies that particular sweet spot at golden hour when a 10-stop \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.foxandtalbot.com\/collections\/filters-hoods-caps\" title=\"Shop our other filters\"\u003efilter\u003c\/a\u003e would render the world practically theoretical. Doing nothing would leave your water sharp and your clouds suspiciously stationary.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt fits the LEE100 and Foundation Kit systems and seals with a rear foam gasket against light leaks. It has earned its place in kit bags the world over not through spectacle but through that rarer, more reliable quality: showing up, doing exactly what it promised, and making you look good in the process.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48263627735227,"sku":"FILT-LEE-100207","price":58.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/lee-filters-little-stopper-100mm-6-stop-glass-filter.jpg?v=1787351300"},{"product_id":"kindermann-3193-16mm-110-film-developing-reel","title":"Kindermann 3193 16mm \/ 110 Film Developing Reel","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: 88-Day Confirmed Operation Warranty. We get the feeling this reel has never been used, it doesn't have a scratch on it. The original box has some light wear on the edges, but is otherwise clean. Scroll down to learn why this reel thinks it's remarkable.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSomething is almost defiantly optimistic about a person who decides, in this particular era of instant digital everything, to develop their own \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.foxandtalbot.com\/collections\/subminiature-cameras\" title=\"Shop our subminiature collection\"\u003e16mm film\u003c\/a\u003e in a darkroom. It's for precisely this stubborn, romantic creature that the Kindermann 3193 exists, as though German engineering anticipated the nostalgia decades in advance and simply waited.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarked \"Order No. 3193\" and stamped \"16mm (110)\", it's machined from chrome-nickel stainless steel. It is non-magnetic, chemical-resistant, and almost certainly more durable than the person using it. It fits neatly into Kindermann's small or universal tanks and stacks with the cooperative ease of objects that were designed by people who actually thought things through.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIts centre spring clip accommodates single, double, or perforation-free film with admirable impartiality, while the spot-welded spiral quietly prevents tramlining. That sounds like a minor miracle until you've ruined a roll of Minox or Pentax Auto 110 footage and understood, with cold clarity, exactly what tramlining costs you in grief.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYes, the clip demands careful alignment, and yes, wet-loading a 16mm strip is the kind of gamble that can end in tears. Veterans speak in reverent tones of the \"cupping technique\" the way surgeons speak of suturing, with the calm authority of hard-won experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAgainst plastic reels it wins handily: faster drying, better heat tolerance, kinder to delicate edges, and possessed of that particular quality, common to great German tools.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kinderman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48263636156603,"sku":"DARK-KIND-100203","price":68.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/kindermann-3193-16mm-110-developing-reel-boxed.jpg?v=1787317415"},{"product_id":"vintage-nikon-camera-brand-logo-lapel-pin","title":"Vintage Nikon Camera Logo Enamel Lapel Pin","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: 88-Day Confirmed Operation Warranty. Unopened and fully functional. Scroll down to learn why this lapel pin thinks it’s remarkable. Spoiler: it has a point.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere it is, resting in the palm of your hand. It's a pin no bigger than a postage stamp, gold-toned and enamel-yellow, stamped with that bold, italicized wordmark that once meant something almost religious to a certain kind of person who spent their weekends in darkrooms smelling of developer fluid and quiet ambition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.foxandtalbot.com\/collections\/slr-cameras-seduce\" title=\"Shop our SLR collection\"\u003eNikon\u003c\/a\u003e Brand Logo Pin is, technically speaking, a trinket. It's the sort of thing handed across a convention table at Photokina or tucked into a welcome kit alongside a warranty card nobody ever mailed in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis particular one reflects the late 1960s and '70s corporate identity, before the blue accents of 1988, before the \"sequential rays\" of 2003 turned the logo into something that looked like it was trying too hard to suggest motion. This was back when yellow meant passion and black meant trust, and Nikon apparently felt no need to explain itself further, because the SLR slung around your neck did all the talking.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's not rare, which is what makes it interesting. Collectors don't want it because it's scarce, they want it because it's theirs. It’s a small, shining item from an era when a camera company could make you feel, with a straight face and a piece of gold toned brass, that you weren't just buying a machine but joining something.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nikon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274269962427,"sku":"35MM-NIKO-100223","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/vintage-nikon-logo-enamel-pin-original-sealed-packaging.jpg?v=1787372107"},{"product_id":"vintage-nikon-lens-extension-ring-set-k-macro-tubes","title":"Nikon SLR Lens Extension Ring Set K (5-Piece Macro Tube Kit)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: 88-Day Confirmed Operation Warranty. Clean and pristine. Some very minor wear marks, only noted for full disclosure. Scroll down if you want to learn about the design, performance, and story behind it. Or don’t. It’ll be here either way.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSomewhere in a Tokyo camera shop in 1968, a Nikon engineer looked at a perfectly good lens and thought, what if we made it worse, but on purpose, and in five interchangeable pieces? Thus was born the Extension Ring Set K, a deceptively modest collection of metal tubes that contains absolutely no glass, performs no optical wizardry, and yet manages to transform ordinary lenses into macro instruments of surprising capability.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe K-set's genius, if we're being generous, and why not, it's Tuesday, lies in its hybrid identity. With a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.foxandtalbot.com\/collections\/nikon-f-mount\" title=\"Shop our Nikon F mount lenses\"\u003eNikon F\u003c\/a\u003e bayonet on one end and 52mm screw threads on the other, it has the rare distinction of being useful in at least three different ways: as an extension tube, a deep lens hood, or, combined with a reversing ring, a \"poor man's macro\" solution that would make any cheapskate beam with pride.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRanging from 5mm to 20mm of extension across five rings, the set lets you creep closer to your subject while simultaneously robbing you of working distance, depth of field, and light. It's a transaction that feels a bit like getting a raise and discovering your taxes went up.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe K-set has very firm opinions about who it will and won't associate with. Modern Nikon DSLRs with an AI tab, your D850s, your D750s, the whole respectable lot, risk actual mechanical damage if they so much as flirt with these rings. However, Z-series bodies, the D3000, the D5000, and any vintage F mount camera that remembers the Nixon administration are perfectly welcome at the table.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere's no autofocus, no automatic diaphragm, and no digital hand-holding of any kind. You stop down manually, you meter manually, and you think, which is either a meditative return to photographic fundamentals or an inconvenience. The K-set is a relic that refuses to behave like one: still useful, still versatile, and still capable of making you work for something beautiful.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nikon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274269995195,"sku":"35MM-NIKO-100224","price":58.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/vintage-nikon-extension-ring-set-k-macro-tube-stack.jpg?v=1787374139"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.foxandtalbot.com\/collections\/under-one-hundred-dollars.oembed?page=2","provider":"Fox and Talbot Cameras","version":"1.0","type":"link"}