~ Vintage Camera Love ~

My collection of vintage cameras has been growing. I finally have them all in one place, thanks to the Beekeeper.

vintage cameras

vintage camera collection

vintage camera

vintage camera

vintage camera

cameras

vintage camera lighter

This is actually a lighter I found at an antique store. I don’t smoke, but it looks cute in my collection.

vintage camera

vintage camera

cameras

My beloved Nephew, James, my Nikon man.

vintage camera

vintage camera and tin type picture

vintage camera Zeiss

My newest camera.

Zeiss vintage camera

vintage Nikon

vintage Nikon

This is my vintage film Nikon. It came with a great 50 mm lens, which works on my DSLR. This photo was taken with the vintage lens on my Nikon D90. Of course it means manual focus, but I can deal with that for a great lens.

vintage camera collection

So now my little collection is over my desk, in the living room, where I can look at them whenever I want. The only problem…I have already filled all the old wooden boxes the Beekeeper used, and the “hunt” is the fun part. What’s a girl to do!?!

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~ All Aboard ~

The Beekeeper is also “The Conductor”, at least of his vintage HO scale Marklin train set. His Dad bought this train set in the early 60’s, and now the Beekeeper has begun to add to the original set. Of course, with only vintage pieces! I’ll take some pictures of our set for a future post. A couple weeks ago we took a field trip to this train shop. They have quite a train display set up, but mainly Lionel. The first pictures are of the smaller HO scale train which was on a shelf under the big set up so it was a little dark for pictures, still fun though.

HO scale train set

HO scale train set

HO scale train set

HO scale train set

HO scale train set

It amazes me how much thought, time and effort (not to mention money) that train collectors put into these displays. They really are quite impressive up close. So, on to the larger scale Lionel.

Lionel trains

Lionel trains

Lionel trains

Lionel trains

Lionel trains

Lionel trains

Lionel trains

Lionel trains

Lionel trains

Lionel train set

This doesn’t even begin to do this set up justice, this is one corner, they have a very large display. It was fun to see it set up and running.