This monster brings out memories in me, turning me into old fart mode. Never actually had one, but I was near, very near.
This is slightly off topic, but I have never introduced myself to this list. First thing I did here was to scare people off with a steaming (very steaming) descrition of my relation with my new camera :-) The lists response on this first introduction was a roaring silence. Wonder why ;-) But I do believe that one or two members (besides Cotty), had fun. I bought my first SLR in 86. It was a Chinon CG-5, a half automatic box, with a 35-85mm zoom. A simple, but pretty good combo. A year later I realized AF was the big thing. I didn't have a lot of money then (still don't). So guess what my wet dreams were about? Correct, this lens. There was another version too, a zoom, with a range of something like 35-70mm. I never saw one in real life, but guess it was huge, and heavy. Instead of this lenses I bought a regular normal lens f:1,4. It was a lot cheaper and made a better balanced combo. Later I added a Vivitar 28/2, a Chinon 70-200/3,8 and .... Now my Chinon is nearly retired, but still working faithfully. A solid workhorse. I used it, taking about 10 rolls a year, until last yea. Then I bough myself a P&S, a second hand Olympus 5050. A pretty good camera, with nice features, but it turned out to be way tooo sloooow. A few weeks ago I bought a second hand Ds. Turning me into a Pentaxian. To have a great time using my old lenses was my idea. In real life, I find it to mush trouble, using the all manual lenses. So I find myself gradually building up a range of KA and AF lenses. Anyway, now I'm in heaven. My eldest son picks the Chinon up and does some B&W with it now and then :-) Tim Another Norwegian. -----Original Message----- From: Gonz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15. juni 2005 17:10 To: [email protected] Subject: strange AF lens for K-mount man focus bodies http://tinyurl.com/bcv59 Anyone ever seen one of these before? Its got its own power source and AF circuitry. rg
