Ricoh 35 Flex
At the flea market this morning I bought a neat early model 35mm SLR camera for $5-.
This camera is a Ricoh 35 Flex. It was also sold as the Sears SL-9. No batteries are required; all needed power is made from the ambient light.
It has a non-changeable, fixed lens. If you wanted to shoot either telephoto or wide angle Ricoh sold screw on lens adapters which were attached to the front of the existing lens.
This is the only SLR camera lens I have ever seen which instead of listing the focal length in millimeters shows it in centimeters. So it says it has a 5cm lens (which is the same as saying that it has a 50mm lens).
This camera is really old, having been made in 1963. At the time I was a mere 14 year old boy. A 14 year old boy who had his driver's license, owned a red English Ford car (the same model as J.K. Rowlings' friend), and was regularly getting laid in El Paso and drunk in Juarez.
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This camera is a Ricoh 35 Flex. It was also sold as the Sears SL-9. No batteries are required; all needed power is made from the ambient light.
It has a non-changeable, fixed lens. If you wanted to shoot either telephoto or wide angle Ricoh sold screw on lens adapters which were attached to the front of the existing lens.
This is the only SLR camera lens I have ever seen which instead of listing the focal length in millimeters shows it in centimeters. So it says it has a 5cm lens (which is the same as saying that it has a 50mm lens).
This camera is really old, having been made in 1963. At the time I was a mere 14 year old boy. A 14 year old boy who had his driver's license, owned a red English Ford car (the same model as J.K. Rowlings' friend), and was regularly getting laid in El Paso and drunk in Juarez.
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