Antique Collecting: Cameras at Garage Sales

"Got ya, cameras, cameras are fun, cameras; you can still find some great cameras, collectible cameras out there because they are not functional people think they are not worth anything, nobody wants or uses them. So this for instance, you can find all types of Brownie cameras. There are many different types, this is a Brownie Hockeye camera, a flash camera and you used to look in your camera like this, and you used to go click and they held maybe I don’t know, ten, eight pictures, I don’t remember what they held but this camera is very cute, you can pick these up for next to nothing and they are very collectible. People like to put them on shelves or they like to just collect them and this one, I would probably sell this one for about fifteen dollars. So this is the kind of thing that you are going to find at a garage sale for about five dollars or less. Also what is hot right now, people are starting to collect Polaroid’s, old Polaroid cameras, all the different machinations of those cameras. This one is an Impulse but there are some Polaroid cameras, I am talking huge, these things are like this big, you can barely life them. Those are very collectible; people are fascinated with them, that technology, I don’t know I guess they still make Polaroid cameras, I should know that. But anyway now in the age of digital photography, these are just such an anachronisms of our day and this is a Polaroid camera but they are, oh look the light came on it still works. So maybe we will take a picture, remember when you are looking at your camera try to go with age, try to go with cute and quaint, also some higher brand names are very, very desirable and some of the more sophisticated lenses but you need to do a little bit more research on that so, action, click look for your cameras there are all kinds of great ones, do your research."