by Marcy Merrill | Feb 25, 2018
I had a couple of cases of vintage cardboard cylinders. They were boxes for something photographic. Empty. I painted them flat black inside and made pinhole cameras out of them. I still have a few, but I sold most of them. Many have been Gala-fied. Most have catchy...
by Marcy Merrill | Feb 2, 2017
Mike Levy of SELECTING AND USING CLASSIC CAMERAS fame gave me this camera. It was kinda bunged up, but in working condition. Just the way I like ’em. Sporting a binocular viewfinder, this 3-D camera was manufactured in 1954. It has a little finger that...
by Marcy Merrill | Jan 31, 2017
I bought this Kewpie #2 at a camera show for $15.00. That’s more than I usually spend on any camera, let alone a simple box camera, but it was in great shape. I bought it for Mike Levy, who ended up trading me his book SELECTING AND USING CLASSIC CAMERAS for it....
by Marcy Merrill | Jan 12, 2017
I’m ready to admit my new addiction. The Kodak Autographic 3a. I can’t have just one. The first one was free. So was the second one, come to think of it. But the third one I had to pay for. I transformed the first two into Gala edition cameras. I...
