Re: Semi-OT: 10 Hottest 35mm Cameras You Could Buy in 1982
On 9/1/2021 1:58 AM, John wrote: 35mm film cameras based on relevance today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piHi1dvsGX0=1s Thanks for posting this link - I really enjoyed the video. I've been shooting pretty much just film in the past couple of year, mostly 120. But I recently took a trip and packed 35mm. I almost took the LX but it lost out to the MZ-S. That video really motivates me to load up the LX for a few rolls, and refreshes my regret for selling off my MX years ago. Mark -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Semi-OT: 10 Hottest 35mm Cameras You Could Buy in 1982
On 9/1/2021 02:43:10, mike wilson wrote: On 01 September 2021 at 06:58 John wrote: 35mm film cameras based on relevance today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piHi1dvsGX0=1s Based on relevance today, they should all be P models. The usual suspects at the top but 2 out of 10 is not bad. And even the K1000 got a mention. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Semi-OT: 10 Hottest 35mm Cameras You Could Buy in 1982
On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 10:27:12PM -0400, John Francis wrote: > > I know I didn't have the 250-600 during the 1998 season - I was shooting in > the > Corkscrew until the lap before "The Pass" (using the 80-200), but I left to > get > down to the pit lane in good time for the podium ceremonies. Bad timing ... Can't read my own writing - that was 1996, not 1998! -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Semi-OT: 10 Hottest 35mm Cameras You Could Buy in 1982
On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 07:36:55PM -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Good times. I enjoyed that weekend. I think you had just bought your FA > 250-600. > I believe I got that lens some time in 1999, so I had it for the 2000 weekend. (See http://www.panix.com/~johnf/temp/CityStreets.jpg for supporting evidence) That must have been taken with the PZ-1p - the MZ-S didn't come out until 2001. I can't recall exactly when I got the 250-600, but I know I had it in 1999, as I was in the turn 1 photo stand at Fontana that year for the early laps of the race. I was shooting down the front straight to the start-finish line at the time Greg Moore had his fatal accident, so fortunately for me I didn't actually have his car in my viewfinder at the time. It was still pretty traumatic, coming just three weeks after Gonzalo Rodriguez was killed in a crash during practice at Laguna Seca. I know I didn't have the 250-600 during the 1998 season - I was shooting in the Corkscrew until the lap before "The Pass" (using the 80-200), but I left to get down to the pit lane in good time for the podium ceremonies. Bad timing ... -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Semi-OT: 10 Hottest 35mm Cameras You Could Buy in 1982
Good times. I enjoyed that weekend. I think you had just bought your FA 250-600. Paul > On Sep 1, 2021, at 6:23 PM, John Francis wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 01:58:57AM -0400, John wrote: >> 35mm film cameras based on relevance today: >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piHi1dvsGX0=1s > > Well, in 1982 I still had the MX I'd bought back in '76, and an ME > (although the ME would be replaced the next year by a Super Program). > A friend of mine had an A1. In fact we'd both had those cameras in > 1978 when we ended up on a work assignment in New Zealand for a year, > and we'd each become quite familiar with the other person's cameras. > > The Nikon F2 was a camera I had looked at, but decided that by then > I was sufficiently invested in the Pentax system to make swapping > a rather expensive option. And, in any case, if I felt the need for > something beyond the MX there was always the LX to consider. > I never found a compelling reason to get an LX, and by that time I > was definitely a fan of the small size of the M-body cameras. > That trusty MX, together with the Super Program for auto-exposure, > were what I had in my camera bag up until 1995, when I got a PZ-1p > to replace the Super Program. In fact I've still got that original > MX (and a used black one I bought as a spare in 2000 when I stopped > off at Samy's Camera in Los Angeles to pick up some film on my way > to shoot the Indycar Long Beach Grand Prix, and spotted the camera > in their 'as-is' used camera display with a questionable metering > system, but a tested and accurate shutter). [That Long Beach trip > is also where I met Paul Stenquist] I've since picked up the motor > drive for the MX, which was capable of shooting 5fps - not bad for > a film camera! > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Semi-OT: 10 Hottest 35mm Cameras You Could Buy in 1982
On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 01:58:57AM -0400, John wrote: > 35mm film cameras based on relevance today: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piHi1dvsGX0=1s Well, in 1982 I still had the MX I'd bought back in '76, and an ME (although the ME would be replaced the next year by a Super Program). A friend of mine had an A1. In fact we'd both had those cameras in 1978 when we ended up on a work assignment in New Zealand for a year, and we'd each become quite familiar with the other person's cameras. The Nikon F2 was a camera I had looked at, but decided that by then I was sufficiently invested in the Pentax system to make swapping a rather expensive option. And, in any case, if I felt the need for something beyond the MX there was always the LX to consider. I never found a compelling reason to get an LX, and by that time I was definitely a fan of the small size of the M-body cameras. That trusty MX, together with the Super Program for auto-exposure, were what I had in my camera bag up until 1995, when I got a PZ-1p to replace the Super Program. In fact I've still got that original MX (and a used black one I bought as a spare in 2000 when I stopped off at Samy's Camera in Los Angeles to pick up some film on my way to shoot the Indycar Long Beach Grand Prix, and spotted the camera in their 'as-is' used camera display with a questionable metering system, but a tested and accurate shutter). [That Long Beach trip is also where I met Paul Stenquist] I've since picked up the motor drive for the MX, which was capable of shooting 5fps - not bad for a film camera! -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Semi-OT: 10 Hottest 35mm Cameras You Could Buy in 1982
> On 01 September 2021 at 06:58 John wrote: > > > 35mm film cameras based on relevance today: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piHi1dvsGX0=1s Based on relevance today, they should all be P models. The usual suspects at the top but 2 out of 10 is not bad. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Semi-OT: 10 Hottest 35mm Cameras You Could Buy in 1982
35mm film cameras based on relevance today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piHi1dvsGX0=1s -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.