Re: OT: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-26 Thread Albano Garcia
I agree, get a Rollei!!! I already fell in love Regards Albano --- keller.schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really think there is no way around a Rolleiflex or Rolleicord. Later Rolleicords with Schneider Xenar taking lens can be found in that price range and have much to offer: supreme

Re: OT: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread Tom Addison
--- Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25 Mar 2004 at 8:36, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: What other options might there be for inexpensive carry-arounds? I have a great old Super Baldax which is a coupled 6x6 folding coupled RF with a very nice Schneider Radionar 2.9/80mm lens.

Re: OT: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread brooksdj
I have seen a few of the plain jane Y-M's on eaby(like the one i have)go for under $100. Canadian lately.But they dont fold so that may not be of interest to you. I got some decent results from it though. Dave I've got an Olympus Stylus Zoom 130 and

Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Collin Brendemuehl Subject: OT: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera I've got an Olympus Stylus Zoom 130 and a Canon GIII QL17 for 35mm carry-around bodies. But I'd like something for 120 as well. At this point I'm looking at Frank Rolfix perhaps also

Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread Bill Owens
How about a Holga? 8-) Bill - Original Message - From: Collin Brendemuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:36 AM Subject: OT: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera I've got an Olympus Stylus Zoom 130 and a Canon GIII QL17 for 35mm carry-around

Re: OT: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread keller.schaefer
I really think there is no way around a Rolleiflex or Rolleicord. Later Rolleicords with Schneider Xenar taking lens can be found in that price range and have much to offer: supreme build quality at relatively low weight and size, a sharp (coated) lens - but there always is the danger to fall in

Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread keller.schaefer
Coating started to become common after WWII. No pre-war lens on any publicly sold camera will have coating - unless applied later. Sven Zitat von Lasse Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... I think that any camera lens made since the about the 1920:s will be coated. Lasse

Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread Lasse Karlsson
From: keller.schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coating started to become common after WWII. No pre-war lens on any publicly sold camera will have coating - unless applied later. Sven I think that you are mistaken. The process and finding that certain coating would suppress reflections on glass

Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
*** Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:06:37 -0500 From: Bill Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] How about a Holga? 8-) Bill *** I already have a Spartus FullVue! CRB

Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread Lasse Karlsson
It struck me, Sven - maybe you are thinking of multilayer coating techniques, which indeed I believe were developed during WWII-time? Lasse From: Lasse Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: keller.schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coating started to become common after WWII. No pre-war lens on any

Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread Raimo K
- Original Message - From: Lasse Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 6:20 PM Subject: Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera From: keller.schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coating started to become common after WWII. No pre-war lens on any publicly

Re: OT: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
* Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:34:31 +0100 From: keller.schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] I really think there is no way around a Rolleiflex or Rolleicord. Later Rolleicords with Schneider Xenar taking lens can be found in that price range and have much to

Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread Raimo K
- From: Lasse Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:00 PM Subject: Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera It struck me, Sven - maybe you are thinking of multilayer coating techniques, which indeed I believe were developed during WWII-time? Lasse From

Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread Andre Langevin
I think that any camera lens made since the about the 1920:s will be coated. Lasse Make it the 1950s. First japanese coated lens was by Minolta in 1946. Andre

AW: OT: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread keller.schaefer
A Rolleicord is roughly 800 g (including two lenses ;-) Sven -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. März 2004 19:53 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: OT: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera Collin said: An decent

Re: OT: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread Chris Stoddart
On 25 Mar 2004 at 8:36, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: What other options might there be for inexpensive carry-arounds? I know it's been mentioned already but whilst some suggestions are getting more and more exotic and expensive, Agfa Isolettes are still bloody common and cheap. I've got an

Re: OT: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread Keith Whaley
I have a refurbished (newly CLA'd) Isolette III that I would sell for US$110 plus shipping. New bellows, snappy, takes great photos! You have to get me when I'm willing, because I usually vascillate over this one. I have so much invested in it, and I'll certainly lose money when it's finally

Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Personal photography homepage at: http:\\www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho - Original Message - From: Lasse Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:00 PM Subject: Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera It struck me, Sven - maybe you

Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread Rofini
I can't give a decent reference for the history of coating techniques but I know when Rollei started fitting coated lenses (1949, from Zeiss and Schneider). Had there been coated lenses available in the thirties, Rollei would have surely used them. Sven A link to a coating history summary:

Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread graywolf
I believe Kodak started coating lenses just before WWII. However it was not until the 50's that they were coating all their lenses. -- Rofini wrote: I can't give a decent reference for the history of coating techniques but I know when Rollei started fitting coated lenses (1949, from Zeiss and

Re: OT: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread Gianfranco Irlanda
Collin Brendemuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What other options might there be for inexpensive carry-arounds? Budget: $100us. (I've not seen a Fuji GS645 this cheap--yet.) Other: I prefer a single-coated lens over uncoated. Collin, I may be no real expert in this field, but I own an Iskra,

Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread Raimo K
, March 25, 2004 8:42 PM Subject: Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera Multi-layer coatings were developed much later, jointly by Zeiss and Pentax. SMC Takumar lenses were introduced in 1971... Raimo K It struck me, Sven - maybe you are thinking of multilayer coating techniques, which

Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread Raimo K
at: http:\\www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho - Original Message - From: Collin Brendemuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:26 PM Subject: Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera WRT the history of coatings, Lasse is closer. By the late 30s *most* New

Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera

2004-03-25 Thread Raimo K
All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http:\\www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho - Original Message - From: Lasse Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:00 PM Subject: Re: Looking for a 120 carry-around camera