To me, the choice of the camera models is questionable. How did the author chose "100 landmark cameras"?
I find that some models (from the last 20+ years) could be omitted, while some other cameras should be added. Some (reasonable large) brands are not represented at all (e.g. some Soviet/Russian brands). It looks like somebody based this set on his own collection of cameras. I still have somewhere one of the older Polaroid cameras that fold into a box (don't remember the model name, - it's deep in some storage box). Besides that, I don't think I owned or used any of the cameras listed. My first camera was Smena 7: http://goo.gl/x2OPL (my parents bought it for my older brother right around when I was born). Then, I occasionally used brother's FED-2 (which he got from our father when I got Smena 7 - or, likely I got Smena 7 after he got FED-2): http://goo.gl/Ze2fR Then, while being a student, both, my brother and I, bought identical Kiev-19 cameras: http://goo.gl/XbOhr (I still have that one.) Pentax ZX-5n, *istDS, K7, and now K-5sII followed, with a few digital point-and-shoots in parallel (starting from some Kodak). In some sense, in Russia, Smena was a camera implementation of VolksWagen idea of the cheap, afforable product for masses. As far as I know, Zenit was the most exported Russian camera (originally to the UK). Due to the lack of proper QC, all those cameras suffered from the huge variation in the quality (which was typical for most consumer goods produced in Russia, especially when intended for the internal market). Good cameras were hard to buy in Russia. To buy Kiev-19 in 1990, my brother and I came to the store on the day after the rumored delivery very early, with one of the first subway trains, 1-2 hours prior to the store opening. The line outside the store was similar to what you see near some stores on Black Friday in the US. Ones the doors opened, the store was stormed by the crowd in a similar way. All the cameras (100-200?) were claimed within minutes. We were lucky to grab two good cameras, but we took our time to carefully check the glass, the shutter, etc. That was my first "serious" camera (SLR). The price for it was more than a half of my total monthly budget. I am very greatful to my parents who helped me financially to buy that camera, thus encouraging my progress in photography. Cheers, Igor On 02/05/2013, at 6:09 PM, Rob Studdert <distudio.pdml at gmail.com> wrote: > http://popchartlab.condmark camerasm/products/a-visual-compendium-of-cameras > > Me, 11 consisting of: Kodak Brownie, Olympus Pen, Leica M4, Nikon F2, > Pentax 6x7, Pentax K1000, Pentax Auto 110, Nikon FM2, Contax RTS III, > Mamiya 7II and Pentax K20D. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
