I needed a 50mm lens when I was taking a photojournalism course and my Spotty's 55mm 1.8 was being
repaired so I really had no choice...
I think I paid $15 for it in 1975. The price was right anyway.
Sadly I just took it out of it's display case to fire the shutter a couple of times and it's now jammed, probably
hopelessly, I can't for the life of me think of anyone who could fix the damned thing.
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
I was talking with a friend earlier and the conversation got around to
modern cameras as he's thinking about getting a digi for his daughter. There wasn't much i could help him with since I know so little about modern
cameras, and apart from shooting a few frames with John's istD and a lesser
number of frames with Juan's istD, and one frame with a Minolta a couple of
years ago, I've never used or even handled a modern autofocus camera. That's probably quite unusual for this list. That got me to wondering how
many people here have never used a fully manual camera - no autofocus, no
modes, no built-in meter. Anyone?
Shel
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
--P.J. O'Rourke
