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David
Chalky
United Kingdom
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 Posted - Jun 28 2009 : 10:40:16 AM
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Hello, my name is David aka "Chalky" and I'm not a collector but have come across the site and found it useful while searching for information about some Russian cameras. I live in London and work in advertising. I've got a couple of Russian underwater cameras that I wanted to find out more about. They used to belong to my late father-in-law who had a camera shop, and he kept some stock and a fairly esoteric collection of photography related things that interested him. I think these housings fall into the latter category, although I can't be sure. They've been sitting in his loft for the last thirty years or so.
I've put some pictures of them up on the web at http://gallery.me.com/chalkywhite#gallery
One is a KPF-1 underwater housing and when we finally figured out how to open it (translated instructions aren't always the easiest!) discovered that it has a Zenit 3m camera with a Helios lens inside. The case is numbered number 00020 which may or may not mean anything - but I always think the lower the serial number the better!
The other is a very cool-looking LOMO underwater housing for a LOMO Sport 3 cine camera that we have with it. Again there are pictures on the site above and I don't know whether it was stock from the shop (there seems to be a price of £54:9:6d on it) or just something that caught my father-in-law's eye. He wasn't a diver by the way.
I hope you can help tell more me about them (and their value) and/or find it interesting. Cheers. |
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okynek
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Posted - Jun 28 2009 : 11:12:58 AM
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Welcome David!!!
Very interesting stuff!!!
I hope you’ll make few entries of your amazing underwater boxes in Wiki!!! 
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Aidas Pikiotas
AidasCams
Lithuania
973 Posts
My Collection
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Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 03:26:42 AM
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Welcome to our Forums, David!
Best Regards,
Aidas |
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BERRY alain
mermoz37
France
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Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 03:42:15 AM
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Hi David,
nice to meet you here !
you are vey lucky to possess wood box and documents about KPF 1 !
So , would you be so kind friend , if you send (or publish here) a scan of complete user manual ?
Alain |
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David
Chalky
United Kingdom
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Luiz Paracampo
Luiz Paracampo
Brazil
1997 Posts
My Collection
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Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 7:08:01 PM
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Hello David!
Your links give a pemanet 404 error! Please correct address.
Regards LP |
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Luiz Paracampo
Luiz Paracampo
Brazil
1997 Posts
My Collection
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Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 7:28:21 PM
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David
Your Gallery is very interesting! Very very! I remember that TOE England sold those pieces at 1968/1969.and they advertised them at the weekly Amateur Photographer magazine.
The Sport 3/Kinobox is a jewel but the KPF must be a rarity mainly considering its low number. 000XXXat KMZ means prototypes os limited production. A very lucky aquisition Congratulations.
LP |
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Vladislav Kern
Vlad
USA
4251 Posts
My Collection
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Posted - Jun 29 2009 : 7:30:38 PM
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Luiz et all,
I've corrected the links, they were missing http:// now they work fine.
Thanks David for these!!
Cheers,
Vlad. |
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David
Chalky
United Kingdom
5 Posts |
Posted - Jun 30 2009 : 02:36:40 AM
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Thanks for correcting the links Vlad  |
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BERRY alain
mermoz37
France
814 Posts |
Posted - Jun 30 2009 : 09:13:16 AM
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| thanks a lot David ...very interesting for me |
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Luiz Paracampo
Luiz Paracampo
Brazil
1997 Posts
My Collection
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Posted - Jul 01 2009 : 5:32:40 PM
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Excellent pages!
Why do not add to our Wiki?
I wait so.
LP |
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Detlev Vreisleben
Detlev
Germany
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