Do you collect anything as a hobby?

[hunter]

19. Old film cameras.

It gives me a kick to buy expensive cameras I lusted after as a kid for $10, and an even bigger kick to buy old snap-shooters for fifty cents or a dollar.

I clean them up and get them working, but I usually don't run more than one roll of film through them because the film and developing (which I often do myself) is more expensive than the cameras themselves. But the "look" and randomness of chemical photography is difficult to duplicate. I used to amuse myself writing filters and scripts for GIMP that approached the look of particular old camera and film, but Apple and Instagram took the fun out of that. These days digital pictures manipulated to look like film simply irritate me.