It could have stopped here,

[belgiumreporter]

but it didn't... a friend of mine has a small colection leica's containing 3 historically inportant types , a very early black "ur", a IIIG and a M3. he has these camera's on display on a prominent place in his living room and as far as he is concerned that is as far as his "collection" will go.I know of a lot of other people who use an old camera (or two) as a decorative element in their interior, they like the sight of an old or quirky  camera without being a collector or camera enthousiast.

I myselve could  have stopped collecting cameras after i obtained the in my opinion most inportant early japanese pro 35 mm slr's.  But i didn't and now i face an ever expanding 200+ slr camera collection that is growing inncreasingly difficult to display ( as i dont believe in collecting to put things in boxes in the attic).It's hard to explain but sometimes i envy the people who are able to keep their collections small or within limits.







People with more self control might have stopped collecting after aquiring these, i however did not...

[raybar]

"It's starting to look like a store around here" she said, referring to the cameras and lenses all over the place. "You should talk" I replied, referring to her own and her mother's and her grandmother's and her aunt's china and silver.

[raybar]

I really don't want to display every camera and lens and accessory I have. Too much of a good thing, you might say. And "she who must be obeyed" wouldn't stand for it anyway. Presently there are cameras in front of books on bookshelves and scattered around in convenient spots that aren't already taken by her crap .... I mean treasures.

Here in Los Angeles -- earthquake country -- I'm nervous about everything falling to the floor at any moment. So I'm considering something like this  from Ikea which provides both display space with doors to minimize dust and drawers for storing things that don't need to be seen all the time.



I don't know what I'll actually do, or if I will get anything from Ikea or not, but it's likely to be something like this. Need more than one. Whatever it is will be fastened to the wall to prevent it tipping over and I will add secure latches to the doors and perhaps fix things in place somehow.  

That may all sound excessive to anyone who has never experienced an earthquake, but it's just a sensible and relentlessly recommended precaution here. 

[Randy]

I have 4 similar display cases that are 5 feet high and have shelving all the way to the floor. I used self adhesive weatherstripping around the doors and door centers to eliminate dust. It works great. I have all of my Minoltas and Pentax's in one case and use the other cases to display my 1/18 scale muscle cars and HO scale locomotives.

[cooltouch]

Man-o-man, I thought I had it bad with my 50 or so camera collection!

I have one display case that I can just barely fit all my cameras and lenses into. But it won't take too many more pieces to have me looking for more space.

[camfiend]

so far have 17 display cases varying in size from an antique china cabinet which holds around 40 cameras to a 2mtrx1.5mtr purpose built cabinet holding 280 cameras... apart from bathrooms there is no room in my house which doesnt house some cameras
Display is a HUGE problem


Bob

[raybar]

No cameras in the bathroom? Me neither -- until today. I just put a waterproof Canon Elph Sport among the bottles of soap and shampoo beside my wife's bathtub. No film (Advantix) and no battery installed, but she won't know that. I'm expecting a scream in the morning and perhaps a letter from an attorney in the afternoon.

[mickeyobe]

Aug 17, 2016 19:58:53 GMT -5 raybar said:

No cameras in the bathroom? Me neither -- until today. I just put a waterproof Canon Elph Sport among the bottles of soap and shampoo beside my wife's bathtub. No film (Advantix) and no battery installed, but she won't know that. I'm expecting a scream in the morning and perhaps a letter from an attorney in the afternoon.

Where will your funeral be held?

Mickey

[raybar]

Aug 18, 2016 4:59:37 GMT -5 mickeyobe said:

I'm hoping for Eastman House but I think she has secret plans for me to disappear in Algonquin Park somewhere near the Portage Store.

[alanegreen]

I have my collection of ~200 (mixture of 35mm SLR and medium format) housed is two Ikea double width 'Billy' bookcases, in light oak finish. These come with solid shelves, but Ikea sell replacement glass shelves, as well as glass doors, both of which I fitted. I also fitted some Ikea halogen lighting, which does a good job - assisted by the glass shelves.
The shelves can be adjusted on a peg system, and I have a few more shelves than would originally have been supplied. They are beginning to look a bit crowded, but at the moment space prevents me from adding a third!

[cooltouch]

Just don't let your glass shelves get too overcrowded, or this might happen:

[camfiend]

OUCH... not a nice look Cooltouch

Bob

[paulhofseth]

Hope the image-forming glass & metal inside survived.

I assume that the crash had been avoided if plastic lens-internals and plastic camera bodies rather than the very solid Nikons had been used. An obvious case of suffering for the cause of quality.

p.

[cooltouch]

Not all survived, unfortunately. A Canon EF sustained heavy damage to its top plate -- enough to kill the electronics. A Nikon FE's top plate was bent pretty badly, but I found a replacement for it. A Canon Winder F's shutter button was knocked off and ruined. And a Tamron 17mm, that I had bought just a few days before, picked up a very small ding in its front element. All things considered, though, I got off lucky. And I suspect I did because almost all those cameras and lenses date back to the era when they were made out of metal and glass.

I'm convinced my cat did it. He liked to jump on top of that cabinet, but he's a clumsy cat and sometimes he misses what he's aiming for. I figure that's what happened and he caused the case to rock slightly. Just enough to tip over a heavy lens on the top shelf. Which broke that pane, causing all the gear on that shelf to fall down onto the shelf beneath it, shattering it. And so things went.