{"id":33122,"date":"2026-01-11T01:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=33122"},"modified":"2026-01-12T01:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:20:30","slug":"i-wonder-what-its-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/i-wonder-what-its-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"I wonder what it’s worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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a scan of the famous McKeown’s 11th edition. price guide.<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. For many years, the definitive price guide to old cameras was McKeown’s, Issue 26-3 announced the arrival of the 11th edition of the famous guide:<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ll finally see\u00a0the all-new\u00a0McKeown\u2019s Price\u00a0Guide in January\u00a02001 at a hefty\u00a0price of $125 US\u00a0for the soft cover\u00a0edition. But it\u00a0looks like it will\u00a0be worth the wait\u00a0and the price as it\u00a0has been totally revised with some 6500\u00a0new photographs (new digital photos or\u00a0scans of old prints where the equipment\u00a0was not available). The number of pages\u00a0has been increased from 600 to 904 with\u00a0many new additions bolstering the sections on French, Spanish, German and\u00a0Russian cameras. This 11th issue may be\u00a0the last.” …<\/p>\n

Well, as it turned out a 12th edition was printed and sold, a few copies going to PHSC members. The 12th had very little more than offered by the 11th other than the usual price updates.<\/p>\n

The modern digital era caught up with the folks who produce the price guide, and a web site was set up to solicit opinions on digital \u00a0vs hard copy<\/a>. The site announced that this version was almost ready and would replace the 12th edition issued in 2004. The site is still there (January 2026), but remains mainly unchanged (under construction).<\/p>\n

Today many web sites, auction houses, etc. offer prices for old photo gear and images as well as colourful illustrations, history of the camera and\/or maker, etc. Please note: Those using sites like Ebay must be sure to use a sale price, not an asking price to decide current day value. Some photographic historical societies (like the PHSC) also address photographers and studios as well (usually domestic or well known people\/studios).<\/p>\n

With the serious inroads of digital technology, the value of cameras other than those either very rare, pivotal, or originally pricy (Leica, Contax, Hasselblad, etc.) plummeted. But for research even today, a hard copy McKeown’s (I use the 11th) is worthwhile even if the prices are a quarter century out of date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. For many years, the definitive price guide to old cameras was McKeown’s, Issue 26-3 announced the arrival of the 11th edition of the famous guide: “We\u2019ll finally see\u00a0the all-new\u00a0McKeown\u2019s Price\u00a0Guide in January\u00a02001 at a hefty\u00a0price of $125 US\u00a0for the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[397,34,475],"class_list":["post-33122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-book","tag-cameras","tag-price-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33126,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33122\/revisions\/33126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}