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Developing a love for old cameras Dick Shaffer has 300 or 400 antique cameras: He's not sure of the number himself.
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Dayton Daily News
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July 19, 2007
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GERMANTOWN -- Dick Shaffer collects cameras with some heft. Wooden
behemoths that take equally substantial tripods to hold them; box
cameras resembling bricks in shape and weight; and cameras whose
bellows fold out in beautiful precision.
Though you might find Shaffer taking a photo nowadays with a fancy
digital model, it is the antique models that held film encased in
precious darkness that most take his fancy.
He has several hundred of them -- 300 or 400, he's not really sure
of the total -- and they're all carefully boxed away from dust in his
basement.
"A lot of people say if you're going to have a collection, either
display it or get rid of it," Shaffer laughs. Ask him how he got ...
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