Really valuable Argus C-3!

[GRHazelton]

This is just amazing. http://fab.com/inspiration/kodak-cameras-trio-ii It seems that some people have far more money than sense.

Reminds me of seeing in Highlands, NC, in a shop specializing in "decorative items" a number of Readers' Digest condensed books handsomely rebound in half-leather. The old adage comes to mind, "You can put lipstick on a pig, but its still a pig," no offense to pigs intended!

Note that the cameras are for "display purposes only," so they presumably don't work.

[rthomas]

I think the operator of that website would have to pick their jaw up off the floor if they saw all the "valuable" vintage cameras my wife and I have scattered around our place. Especially when they learned that we've never paid more than about $10 for any of them.

EDIT: I wonder if we're missing a clever business opportunity here....

[GRHazelton]

I think the operator of that website would have to pick their jaw up off the floor if they saw all the "valuable" vintage cameras my wife and I have scattered around our place. Especially when they learned that we've never paid more than about $10 for any of them.

Yeah. Or are they cynical scroundrels who know exactly what they're doing. Somewhere I saw a photo forum post of pimped up C-3s, etc, with wood veneer coverings, etc, listed for hundreds of dollars each. As I recall those boxes did work, however.

[desertratt]

Oh you darlin' folks just don't appreciate Arte! If Picasso put lipstick on a pig it would sell for big bucks. Better'n throwing great old cameras in the trash, I guess.

[AgX]

Well, at least today there is no Argus C-3 to see at that page. But like the Bakelite one in the center.

[dehk]

I'll take a C3 with the sandmar over any of those!

[m1tch]

Does that mean my Argus C2 is worth more? You can tell its made from Bakerlite due to the fact that its called a 'brick' they are about as heavy lol

[Dan Fromm]

It will always be a sow's ear.

[bobwysiwyg]

Ha, note the left most cam, my first camera. I still have it (avatar). This mean I 'm sitting on a small fortune? All those "bricks" were manufactured about 3 blocks from my home. The Argus Bldg is now part of the U of M campus sprawl.

[desertratt]

I fail to see what is wrong with trying to sell an old film camera for a lot of money. Would you rather they all got thrown in the trash because they are all worth less than 3 bucks? I don't collect cameras, I rescue them. The 35-or-so film cameras I have were homeless orphans, destined to be thrown in the trash heap. I clean 'em up, fix 'em up and there's a lot of good shooters in the bunch. Some people have radios from the 1940s in their living room as a decorator item. Others have old cameras. Not much of a crime, I fear. I would not be surprised if the 1936 Kodak 35mm Art Deco clamshell folder with the fine German shutter and lens is a much more interesting camera than any junkue you own.