This camera, not one like it

Every listing at Shutter Exchange is one unit with its own grade, shutter count and photographs. This is unit SX-0417, a 1961 Halde R2.

Scroll to turn it a quarter turn on the light table.

Brushed chrome, machining lines intact

Two shallow scuffs on the rewind side, none near the windows. Graded by hand under the same lamp you see here.

Top plateTop plate · A

8,412 actuations, counted on a tester

Timed at every speed from 1 s to 1/1000. The slowest three run 4% long; the rest sit within 2%.

Shutter1 s to 1/1000

Original pebble grain, no lifting

Brassing on two corners where a hand held it since 1961. It is wear, not damage, and the grade says so.

CoveringCovering · B+

Cap fitted, flange measured

Flange distance checked at 28.80 mm, so a lens you mount will focus to infinity. Sold as a body.

MountBody only
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The Halde R2 from the front at a low three-quarter angle, body cap fitted, on a glowing light table with negative strips and an orange film canister behind it

Halde R2, chrome body

Unit SX-0417 · one of one

£1,180

Grade
B+
Shutter count
8,412
Speeds timed
1 s to 1/1000
Made
1961
Tested
9 Oct 2026
  1. Open
  2. Countered
  3. Declined
  4. Accepted
  5. Sold

No offer yet. Buy at the ask, or offer what you think it is worth.

Four grades, each one shown on this camera

A grade is the worst part, not the average. Pick a part to look at it the way the grader did.

  1. A

    Near new

    No marks at arm's length. Glass clean, every speed within 2%.

  2. B+

    Honest userThis unit

    Light wear on edges and corners. Works fully, timed and logged.

  3. B

    Working user

    Brassing and scuffs you see at once. Mechanically sound.

  4. C

    Project

    Works with a fault we name in the listing, priced for it.

Unit SX-0417 from the front on the light table
Four parts graded, the lowest sets the grade: B+.

What a Halde R2 body sold for here

17 sales in 12 months. The line joins the 6 at grade B+; the dashed line is this unit's ask, £20 over their median of £1,160.

£1,2003 Oct 2026 · grade B+
  • B+ sales, joined in date order
  • Other grades
  • This unit's ask

Six listings, six cameras

Each one photographed on the same table, graded and timed before it goes up. Sold units stay listed with the price they went for.

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