How do you display your collection?

08/17/2007 21:20

Hi everyone,

as a fellow collector I am always wondering how do people display they collections at their homes? Are they on the shelves or in boxes, what do you do with camera cases? Do you display accessories? Here's what mine display looks like. I like to display only cameras and I use clear acrylic risers to create a multi-level display. What about you?

Vlad

08/19/2007 16:15

Hi Vlad,

I tried to persuade her in placing three wooden cameras (FKD 13x18, FKD 18x24 and FKD 30x40!) in our dining room, but my wife said NO WAY!

So I have my favourite appr. 100 camera in my working cabinet and small exibition in my office. Other cameras are packed well and I still can't find a lot of them

Regards,

Aidas

08/19/2007 17:13

Would love to see you post a picture of that display!

Vlad.

08/19/2007 19:29

Hi Everyone,

Here are photos of how I display my collection ... in two art deco cabinets that usually have sliding glass doors over them (but I took it off for the photos). They are in our living room and my wife likes them too ;-). The leather cases, passports, and manuals are in storage, carefully identified as to which camera they belong to. Here in San Francisco, earthquakes could be a problem, so usually all of the cameras are in the display cases.
regards, Bill

11/15/2007 13:32

I want to bump up this thread! Show us your shelves!!

Vlad

11/15/2007 14:47

Over two years old photo: the vitrine/cabinet is now another one. Much bigger = better room to fit the cameras behind glass. At least most of them... No earth quakes, no direct sun, no big humidity, temp 20-25°C and only normal domestic dust. But even the old one did have room for around one hundred small cameras!

Seems I should take an updated shot, as even the computer looks ancient (IBM Aptiva). Right after I have cleaned up my desk, propably 32th of Nov at 25:61 o'clock

Plus still around a dozen cameras at work, so I have something to show even there.
And some in camera bags with their lenses as they are used. Or have been used in the last five years or so?

Manuals, bags and boxes in a clothes cabinet. That way even I use some of that space and not only her!

Bill's collection is very impressive, and as I realized long ago my limitations I did concentrate on the "easy" Smena-range with Elikon. How wrong I then was, Aidas does know

Juhani

http://www.cedricfan.sivut.ws/Juhani's%20website%20ORIGINAALIT/

11/15/2007 15:30

Nice Juhani! Impressive Smena collection! I also see you're a big Michael Crichton fan!

11/19/2007 11:16

After such great collections above it is scary to me to show my modest assembly. But I hope it encourage more members to show they cameras!!!

11/19/2007 14:35

Todays version:

As you see the worktable is a mess, even more than before. But I have been waiting for wooden magazine boxes to arrive at Ikea for a couple of months now. When I get them (hopefully next week) then I can sort my papers, brochures tec. And arrange the vitrines better

And the Crichton books are hers

http://www.cedricfan.sivut.ws/Juhani's%20website%20ORIGINAALIT/

11/19/2007 14:35

Okynek - Nice! Is that a black Moment that I see in the first picture on top left? And I see you got a few movie cameras? What made you get those particular ones? You guys think I should make a Movie camera category in the catalog?

Vlad.

11/19/2007 14:40

Haha, nice Juhani! you should've posted more detailed shots as well too, it's hard to see what you actually have on your shelves.

Speaking of today's version, I'll post mine soon too, what I have at the top is very outdated, I've added a few wall shelves and about 80 more cameras since then.

11/19/2007 15:08

I will do that when I got it ready, in December I hope...

http://www.cedricfan.sivut.ws/Juhani's%20website%20ORIGINAALIT/

11/19/2007 15:08

Here's what it looks like today:

11/19/2007 17:55

Wow! It really impressive collection! You seem to have every camera ever made in Russia/USSR!

11/19/2007 18:08

Thank you! Yes, I would say I have every mass produced camera and a few rare ones, but not as many as I would like to have

... hate to brag, but I opened up my Moskva-3 today and got a nice surprise - a serial # turned out to be 5000006, which makes it the 6th Moskva-3 ever produced!

This thing was sitting on my shelf since May and I didn't even bother to check for some reason! Even I don't know my cameras that well, I should probably go through them to make sure I don't have any other gems there

. I had acquired 200 cameras since May of 2007! So time to start inspecting them!

11/20/2007 23:16

Yesterday evening I took detailed pics of those cameras that I didn't have on my website yet, and rearranged the folders, cleaning away the sodl cameras. Now my actual collection is much more complete there, as I had neglected adding pics of others than Smena & Elikon

So if you want to see sharper please go to "Cameras" and first folder "Detailed pics of my collection".
Few shots still missing, as the cameras are at my work. But nothing dramatic

http://www.cedricfan.sivut.ws/Juhani's%20website%20ORIGINAALIT/

11/21/2007 06:54

quote:
Originally posted by cedricfan

http://www.cedricfan.sivut.ws/Juhani's%20website%20ORIGINAALIT/

I can't see anything because:
1) your site requires JavaScript -- O.K., but a site must have an alternative ways to a visitors...
2) your site requires Adobe Flash Player -- why? I don't understand.

11/21/2007 09:59

I know and I am not happy with the fact that the new version of JAlbum needs these programs, but I realized that only after having switched over to it. Also I can't use direct links to one picture as before. But most visitors have the software, and have given positive comments on the current looks so there is some good sides also.
Someday I will contact my personal help desk (my 17y old son) who will find out a better profile of JAlbum with no software problems AND a good design!

http://www.cedricfan.sivut.ws/Juhani's%20website%20ORIGINAALIT/

11/21/2007 10:10

Very nice! You have the first Elicon and the Zenit 7 that I had been hunting for for a while... I see you also have a complete outfit for AM-2, how is that camera? It looks something that you use.

11/21/2007 11:50

quote:
Originally posted by cedricfan

I know and I am not happy with the fact that the new version of JAlbum needs these programs...

I understand. You use BananAlbum (or JAlbum) http://www.bananalbum.com/
It based on the Adobe(R) Flash technology...
BananAlbum made for MS(R) Windows and Apple(R) Mac platforms only. But there are not only two platforms in the World... :(

11/21/2007 14:21

quote:
Originally posted by Vlad

Very nice! You have the first Elicon and the Zenit 7 that I had been hunting for for a while... I see you also have a complete outfit for AM-2, how is that camera? It looks something that you use.

The 1st elikon is the hard one, Zenit-7 is easy compared to that

The AM2 has power problems, like so many of them do. But doesn't matter as I don't use them anymore, it must be all manual with film to be a true purist

quote:
Originally posted by Zoom
I understand. You use BananAlbum (or JAlbum) http://www.bananalbum.com/
It based on the Adobe(R) Flash technology...
BananAlbum made for MS(R) Windows and Apple(R) Mac platforms only. But there are not only two platforms in the World... :(

My son has told me about a finnish thing called Linux, actually the inventor is from the same city...
Well, propably a small thing for him to dfind a better solution next time he needs money = will do some work for me

http://www.cedricfan.sivut.ws/Juhani's%20website%20ORIGINAALIT/

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