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I walk my dog along the Trans Pennine Trail every Saturday morning and take up our position on an old bridge. We sit there and watch the parkrunners go by. I was talking to one of the helpers the other day and he asked me if I was any relation to Francis Frith, same surname as what I am. Unfortunately not. Started talking about old cameras and he said he had some gear that was languishing in his loft. He said that he'd put it together and I could have it. What's more, he still has the invoice for the camera. Dated June 30th 1984. Minolta X-300 £129.99 Case £14.39 Supercord £8 Film £2.08
The camera works perfectly and comes with a Minolta 50mm f1.7, Vivitar 800 flash gun, Vivitar 28mm f2.8 and a Tokina 80-200mm f4.5.
What's not to like.
 
I have, subject to overlooking a few, the following
Ensign Selfix 6x9 folder
Brownie Flash20
Exa500
Exakta Varex IIA certainly 2, possibly 3
Exakta Varex IIB certainly 2 working, 1 (my original) died in action 1974
Exakta Varex1000
Canon Dial 35
Olympus OM1 OM2 OM4 OM4Ti
Olympus XA
Pentax something or other, 35mm compact
Mamiya RB67 RZ67
Mamiya C330f
Bronica ETRSi
Intrepid 5x4 and 10x8
Canham DLC MQC and 10x8
Gandolfi Variant 5x7

There's a Minolta film camera, a 9 something or other, autofocus 35mm somewhere

I suspect that many of these may not see action again, as digital is better than 35mm for my purposes, but they have sentimental value. Whenever I pick up an Exakta, I feel I should put a film in. Perhaps I will...

Put in a list like this, I suspect I'm way down the pecking order here in terms of number of cameras.
 
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