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What would it cost if they remade

Anonymous Mon 22 Apr 2024 20:35:01 No.4306651 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>4306682 >>4306688 >>4306699 >>4306701 >>4307107

The 35mm cameras that are sought after on the secondary market today.. cameras such as the Canon AE-1, Olympus OM-1, Pentax KX etc? Cameras that have seen a steady increase in price the last couple of years..
Surely it would not be cheap. Seems like the only thing that is on the pipeline in that regard is a plastic fantastic POS from Pentax.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 22 Apr 2024 21:26:59 No.4306682 Report

Quoted By: >>4306693 >>4307028

>>4306651
These cameras, inflation adjusted, cost their owners several thousand dollars, and contained a lot of precision clockwork that manufacturers are averse to. So probably hideously expensive. Look at luxury mechanical watches and then double that for the lower volume market and even higher need for precision.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 22 Apr 2024 21:34:56 No.4306688 Report

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>>4306651
Maybe we should start with something a less ambitious, like a TLR or a copy of a soviet snapshit machine (Smena 8 shouldn't be that hard to produce for chinks, its mostly plastic and not that bad everything considered)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 22 Apr 2024 21:53:12 No.4306693 Report

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>>4306682
If this film fad continues then perhaps i should hold on to some of the cameras that come into my possession then. I have a couple of channels where i find these things and i usually flip them for a profit right away, but lately I've been thinking that perhaps i should keep some and see where it all ends up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 22 Apr 2024 22:10:54 No.4306699 Report

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>>4306651
the AE-1 actually contained a lot more electronics than the typical 1976 camera and was also mostly plastic. They styled it to look far more conventional than it was. So it probably wouldn't be as hard to make a new one since it isn't as different from modern cameras as it looks.
Now the others you mentioned are truly mechanical though

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 22 Apr 2024 22:28:25 No.4306701 Report

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>>4306651
just buy a lomography konstruktor and slap a good lens on it

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 22 Apr 2024 23:34:42 No.4306709 Report

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>>4306699
What canon fd mount camera is all metal with mostly manual control?
Idc if it is slr or rangefinde

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 22 Apr 2024 23:42:36 No.4306712 Report

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>>4306709
The Black Beauty
https://global.canon/en/c-museum/product/film88.html

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 22 Apr 2024 23:47:54 No.4306713 Report

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>>4306709
The flagship of that would be the F1, which was Canon’s direct competitor of the Nikon F. The consumer versions would be the FTb (note the b, the original FT was an FL mount camera), TX, TLb.
These are the cameras the AE-1 was dressed up as because they were afraid people wouldn’t buy a plastic camera.

sage

sage Tue 23 Apr 2024 08:08:42 No.4306823 Report

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>>4306712
>Be Canon
>Be completely retarded
>Call some camera "EF"
>Decade later call the lens mount "EF"

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Apr 2024 09:31:06 No.4306852 Report

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>>4306823
Yes, but the good thing is that the camera for that reason is avoiding the hipster tax since no influencers can shill it properly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Apr 2024 18:51:26 No.4307028 Report

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>>4306682
No need to have mechanically timed shutters. An electronically timed shutter like in a Nikon FE2 would be very simple and cheap to implement.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Apr 2024 19:39:30 No.4307038 Report

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>>4307028
Even with mechanical shutter, it wouldn't be that big of a deal. The "Nikon" (actually made by Cosina) FM10 was a cheap, plastic-bodied, all mechanical f-mount SLR intended for sale to countries too backwards to have batteries(!), and it was not ended production until *2022*. Two years ago! The only thing preventing it from being what OP was asking for is the fact that it was plastic and looked like it was from the 1990's not the 1970's.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Apr 2024 23:34:05 No.4307107 Report

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>>4306651
I'd guess the cost of a real, all-metal, all-mechanical SLR like the Nikon FM series, if made today, would be $1200 to $1500 USD.
This puts it at the same league as any number modern full frame digital cameras. Probably not many people would be willing to pay that for a niche novelty hobby item like a 35mm film camera. People who want to spend a lot of money on film cameras will shoot MF/LF. Look at it another way the ebay price of used cameras will need to rise to higher than that before it's anyone's interest to make them new.

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