The collectors have found Cameras. Sure, there are still some bargains to be found out there, but good film cameras, which five years ago you couldn’t GIVE away, are now often going for more than their original prices. I could have bought a burlap bag of Rollei 35 cameras for ten bucks in 2009, and now they’re worth a benjamin not working.

Even the Exacta, a real clunker of a beast, has gone up to insane prices and the lenses for it are commanding big bucks.

Leicas and Blads of course are almost back up to pre-digital pricing in most places.

The bargains are the old Contaflex. Insanely complex cameras, for the time. And buy two or three, because if you use them and they break, there is nobody who can fix one. But the glass…