Bruce Dayton wrote:
There are certainly many situations where common sense should take over
and
manual focus used. Autofocus should be used when manual focus cannot be
easily achieved for whatever reason. If one uses this concept, then AF
cameras make a lot more sense, because you don't try to
Gary,
I have never had an MX apart far enough to get into the shutter speed display
dial so I can't say for certain how easy a fix it might be. There could,
in fact, be several different failures which would give this symptom. Download
the service manual for the MX from my web site at
I think we could all do the numbering ourselves without any effort on the
part of the list maintainer. We just need to establish a specific number
code for subject lines and use it consistently. Then instead of laboriously
typing in a subject we could simply enter the appropriate number:
The
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1270850045
Woof!
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I agree, I would also buy that 6 Mpix MZ-S lookalike, we have all
seen the prototype of, for a reasonable price :-)
But it will take a long while before it can come level with the
good old slide emulsions, if ever in our lifetime.
Not within our lifetime???
Try within a few years. Sooner if
It hit me the other day while I was out shooting with my glorious (and,
of late, neglected) Pentax 67: I don't need an MZ-S right now.
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Yeah, well that's fine for you...
But what all the rest of us who now need a 67 after reading your post?!
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Yeah, well that's fine for you...
But what all the rest of us who now need a 67 after reading your post?!
Well, a used 67 with a metering prism and the 105mm f2.4 can be found
for under $1000 Canadian, if you don't mind the body being cosmetically
ugly. That's less than an MZ-S! :)
You're
It hit me the other day while I was out shooting
with my glorious (and,
of late, neglected) Pentax 67:
I don't need an MZ-S right now.
Wow! It's good to see someone driven by practicality over marketing!
What marketing?
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Robert Wetmore wrote:
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Very interesting and thoughtful views.
I'll not buy a digital camera any time soon - I have no interest in simply
the outward appearances of images.
I think the notion that film/chemical images are more than just outward
appearances of images in a way that digital
The evil part about this is that Mark already has a 645
A 645 has its uses, and I'd take a 645n over most 35s in an instant, but
there's no arguing that 67 is bigger than 645.
My feelings exactly. Which is why I got the 645. I can easily go hiking
with the 645, 45/2.8, 75/2.8, 200/4.0,
film volumes are going to be (and certainly are
now being) reduced. The midrange camera market (SLRs for hobbyists like
us) are taking the big hit. As I reported earlier this year, a local
large-volume retailer of camera equipment sold more digitals in the
$500-$1000 range than ALL BRANDS
after spending the last few days scanning all my slides from my summer
hols, I've decided to stomp my 28-200 Pentax lens to dust.
I had the Tamron version of that lens. i just sold it, rather than stomping
it to dust, but I know what you mean.
Currently, my thoughts would be:
Tamron 24-135
Even if the digital images are transferred to film, if the resulting color
saturation and contrast looks like film, then the digital image must have
been that good in the first place for film to capture it.
Furthermore, all-digital projection *is* coming. The most recent Star Wars
movie was shot
Only until digital becomes tenable from a cost standpoint (which will be
a few--very few--years).
I'll bet still chemical photography survives much longer than motion picture
film. As Bill Casselberry pointed out, the resolution needed for motion
pictures is lower than for stills. The material
I've usually had good experiences with KEH (though they *are* expensive)
and their ratings in general are quite conservative, if entirely lacking
in detail. To get details on the condition of the equipment you want to
buy you can phone up and ask them. Then it depends on which salesdroid answers
I have one of the first MX's sold in the US. Bought the first week it was
available, (damn I feel old writing that). The meter was always a bit
flaky,
never worked the way the manual said it should, in spite of being back
to
Pentax for repair. However once I got used to it, the camera never
I personally haven't been exactly impressed with the
results I've gotten scanning BW directly from negatives. I also
haven't been very impressed with the results when trying to print
these scans with an HP color printer
My experience is the same. I can't get scanned BW negatives to look really
All the camera stores around here are too lame to have even *heard* of this
device (seriously). I know because I asked.
Know where I can buy one on the web?
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For a few bucks, you can buy a lens vise from Fargo and use it to fix dented
filter rings. I have one at home.
Well I just had a similar experience to yours: Someone on the list must
have tipped off KEH to my post because they just *phoned* me and told me
they'd give me a $50.00 credit on my American Express card for the dented
filter ring!
BTW: I bought my F100/2.8 macro - pretty much the same as the FA
I've got a 100 F2.5 Vivitar Series 1 macro which focuses to 1:1. Talk
about
an amazing lens! It has become my work horse for nature closeups. I know
that KEH had one just like it at twice the price I paid on gulp eBay.
eBay prices are funny. I bought my Pentax F100/2.8 macro from KEH for
Can you tell us any more about this individual? The eBay name he went by?
At least what city he operated from? Actually, the city or area where he
was based would probably be the most valuable information since he's likely
to create new identities in the future.
I'm at the point where I'll only
(1) Read the feedback for the seller
Good advice. Also: read the feedback the seller has left for other people,
especially those (if any) with who there have been problems. You tell a
lot from how they deal with others.
(2) there are other services besides paypal. I won't take
it cause I
I haven't gone Pay Pal only with my purchasing policy (yet) but I
won't give positive feedback to anyone who makes me buy a money order
or use
Bid Pay.
Why? That seems unfair, unless you mention that in your auctions.
With my *purchasing* policy. In other words, when I'm *buying* on
I'd hazard a guess that they are several years behind on major mail fraud
cases, not to mention the minor ones. Much as we'd like to have Big
Brother handle all of our problems for us, we still need to do our homework
before we shell out our money.
Undoubtedly true. I know of someone who
I was just writing up a description on an A3000 that I'm putting on eBay
and I found myself wondering what all those contacts were doing on the lens
mount when the A-series lenses only had the one switch contact.
I'd have to guess that Pentax was just getting ready in advance for the
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From: Antti-Pekka Virjonen
Nahh...
Don't you know you can upgrade them ? Just download new
software versions
or hotfixes, but of course you need a maintenance contract for
that ;-)
I especially like the hotfixes myself...
Be very careful
Nenad wrote:
What I would like to know is whether any Pentax cameras have predictive
focus when using this function. My Z1 doesn't appear to. I've tried
it on a subject moving toward me and the shutter seemed to fire late.
DOF
ensured the prints still came out OK.
I'll bet the shutter
| When the Xs reach the top I get to buy ;)
|
| I have an assortment of stuff to put on eBay in the next
| few weeks that ought to do the trick. I've already sold
| one of my MXs to someone on the list so I'm about 20% there!
|
| I'm going to offer a few select items to the List as
Someone on the rec.photo.digital newsgroup just posted asking if a digital
camera can do infrared photography. I'm pretty sure current ones can't and
wonder if it would ever be possible (even if it's possible technically,
it probably would require a special CCD, for which there wouldn't be enough
Wow! This actually makes me much more interested in getting a digital camera.
Reducing the amount of trial and error (or at least speeding up the process)
in infrared photography is a very good thing.
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HI Mark,
You are wrong
CCD's are extremely sencetive for IR
| The scheme to get an MZ-S continues...
|
| I'm now selling this great 1st-generation k-mount pair,
| a K2 with an original k-series 50mm f1.4 lens.
|
| The K2 is the one I bought from Mike Johnston last year,
| although I've replaced the missing wind lever cap (took me
| a while to
I'm compiling my own collection of memorable PDML quotations. This one just
made the list:
Except for losing the car, I did pretty well from an equipment
reliability standpoint.
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You've inspired me! ... And my cars? Those factory-supplied
speedometers are coming out until I can replace the faceplates
with a scale calibrated in farthings per fortnight. BIG grin
Farthings? Sure you wouldn't be happier with Angstroms?
bigger grin
Too inconvenient. Do you have any
Too inconvenient. Do you have any idea how many Angstroms there are to
a Farthing?
Neither me nor units(1) has ever heard of farthing. But it does know
furlong, which is about 2e+12 Angstroms.
A farthing is an old unit of (British) currency. 1/6 of a penny, I believe
(it was before my
Another potential cause of discrepancy might be the fact that the KM and
K1000 use full-frame averaging meters rather than center-weighted like most
other cameras. The difference should be pretty small in most cases, though.
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Ryan,
The K1000 was a stripped down version of
If you're interested, I'm selling an MX that's in absolutely beautiful condition
as part of my raise money to get an MZ-S program. I'd take $175.00 for
it, which is more than the $100.00 ZX-M you mentioned, but then, you already
own an MX so you know why ;-)
Email me if you're interested.
w/my
Fascinating!
Where did this come from?
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Most fun is definitely a more fun question. Not to mention easier to answer!
For me, an MZ with my Sigma 18-35 zoom is the most fun combo.
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It is a *great* lens optically, and what's more, it's mechanical construction
is simply magnificent. Manual focus at its finest.
Brilliant optics. A joy to hold and use. Anyone who has a K-series camera
(K1000, KM, KX, K2) owes it to themselves to get this lens. Mike Johnston
sold one (recently,
Chris Brogden wrote:
Bucky wrote:
100mm f2.8 macro
Very, very sharp. I prefer the feel of the older, MF-only macros, but
this is a well-built, great lens.
I can confirm this in a big way. Simply outstanding.
of course I would like to pick up a good shape MX to compliment the
electronic
Perhaps we could revise an entire musical or film score with our own lyrics.
Personally, I think we should use This is Spinal Tap as the basis, though
:-P
Mark
Provia, Provia, Provia, Provia, Provia, Provia.
Provia - I just found a film called Provia
and suddenly the view takes on a different
It's because K and M series are 2 different series,
Since there was a screw mount Pentax K before the K1000/KM/KX/K2, you
could say that the K itself is two different series...or one series that
really has no cohesive principle behind it. The MX shared nothing but the
lens mount with the ME/ME
Tonight I'm going to my running club's weekly track workout. I'll time every
lap I run with the stopwatch function of my wrist watch and when I get home
I'll recall them and write all the times down.
I'd really like it if my camera had a similar function for shutter speeds
and apertures. The
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http://www.robertstech.com/erie.htm
...in case anyone's interested
Hi Mark,
The first three shots on that page are super, and #1 is just superb.
Well, why do you think I put that one first? g
I don't know if you sell prints, but I think that one would be hard to
My A20/2.8 is one of my favorite lenses. I use it all the time and have
never found it hard to shoot with. I'm hoping to get the K 15mm some day.
I also have a cheap Sigma 18-35mm zoom that's a ton of fun to use. I take
it out when I'm hiking or shooting trail/cross-country races and any time
I
For the person who was considering the SMC-FA50/1.4 at $189.00:
I was just browsing keh.com's new equipment section (yes, they sell new
gear as well as used) and noticed they sell this lens new for $169.
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Why does everything have to be adversarial around here?
Doug
Them's fightin' words!
They are not!
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Got my slides back from my first attempt at motorsports photography and
they're generally better than I expected. I definitely underestimated the
autofocus capability of the PZ-1p: Many of the shots I thought were out
of focus turned out fine. I'm guessing that the camera nailed the focus
for the
Have you looked into having the AF500FTZ repaired? That's not a cheap piece
of gear and it might be worth it.
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Hello guys/girls,
I am looking for a replacement of my AF500FTZ flash for my
pentax PZ1-P. The flash was dropped and died :(
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Great shots.Love the one of bike 32 coming over the rise
in the track.
That's Eric Bostrom. He was a championship contender until his tire came
apart in Sunday's race. Barring a freak disaster of some sort, Mat Mladin
is going to get to keep his #1 plate another year.
You might notice that
Stephen Moore wrote:
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Got my slides back from my first attempt at motorsports photography and
they're generally better than I expected ...
Big understatement there, Mark! Excellent stuff!
Been wanting to go to Mid-Ohio. Where is the left turn where they're
cresting
Mostly haze humidity in the air. It was *nasty* out there.
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Very cool pics, Mark.
The colors seem subdued. The Sensia 400? My monitor?
The light? Your scans?
--John
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I've been searching for ages for one at a reasonable price.
The auction listing said Buy It Now for $65.00 so I did!
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Verry interesting. And it brings to mind something I've wanted to bring
up on this list for a while: The book that re-sparked my interest in photography
after many years of dormancy.
The book is Nowhere is a Place (ISBN: 0871563592) by Paul Theroux and
Bruce Chatwin, with photos by Jeff Gnass.
Amita Guha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, my boyfriend and I are in disagreement over which speed film to
use
for this - I say 400 to freeze the action, he says slower to capture
greater detail. We are going to shoot during the day and in the early
morning.
From what I've seen of
I'm pretty sure that's the way I'm going to go. Perhaps the price of the
MZ-S will come down a little in a few months, too. No hope of that happening
with the lens. On the other hand, I'm kinda peeved with my local camera
shop because when I asked them about the MZ-S they said they had no plans
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
[what to buy]
My candidates are:
MZ-S (of course)
80-200/2.8 zoom (Tokina is the most likely one at this point)
PZ-1p (a second one)
If you are buying the body for the AF capabilities, get the MZ-S.
That's the primary reason I've got an
MX
SMC-M28/3.5
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You also need to take focal length into account.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I've had a critically sharp handheld
shot (on ISO 100 film). A 12 by 18 enlargement of this photo looks fabulous.
But that was with a 28mm in great light. (It's for this reason that, whenever
I do go on a casual
I'll give you that. In street photography a tripod
is a hinderance but in
most situations, I maintain that a tripod is vital
to good photographs. With
the exception of a few cases, photographers who
argue otherwise are lazy or
are willing to accept fuzzy pictures.
You just haven't looked
Pål wrote:
The photographers lack of discipline is independent of the camera.
Think I'll print that out and frame it
;-)
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Hi Folks.
dumb question I know, but I cant find my manual anywhere. Seems to be
1/60th of a second, but that seems a tad slow. From playing around, it
can
work at 1/125th, but I need to open up a stop vs. what my flash tells me.
Can it go the whole way up to 1/250th for X-Sync?
Yep. 1/250
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M. Johnston wrote:
The #1 annoyance/frustration of AF cameras
for me, which is that sometimes the camera will
decide that it's not focussed to its satisfaction
and will not fire when you want it to. This drives me
crazy. In fact, just the _possibility_ of this
happening drives me crazy.
With
I've noticed that this lens isn't listed on Stan's Pentax page. He's got
the earlier SMC 50/4.0 Macro, the FA 50/2.8 Macro and the A 50/2.8 Macro
(which appears in the comments section but isn't listed in the navigation
column).
Perhaps I'll have to borrow this lens from my S.O. after she's had a
I do basically agree with what you are saying. It is worth noting, however,
that the doubt directed at JD Colour was much more reasonable as Albano
had proof that he paid (cancelled check or money order receipt, I expect)
and JD Colour never (to my knowledge) offered any proof that they shipped
Those were my conclusions in the end. She has a bit of trouble with her
vision in low light, but I'm sure she'll be shooting outdoors 99% of the
time.(And she can borrow my M50/1.4 if she really needs it.)
I'll be keeping my eye open for an A50/2.8 Macro, though ;)
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I
OK all you dogs... knock it off!!! :-) :-) :-)
ARF!
Who is it who owns the bow-wow Takumar 20mm?
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I'm probably going to be shooting Fuji Sensia 400 for Mid-Ohio. I doubt
I'll need to push it but it's nice to know it's an option.
John Francis wrote:
I haven't used the Fuji Multispeed very much. It's not a true
1000-speed film; you only get that by push processing. I'd be
more inclined
I received the following reply to my June 28 post (cc to the offending
store)
from the store concerning Albano's shipment. He believes that Alberta,
Canada
law relieves him of his responsibility ends when he puts the shipment in
the
hands of the carrier. Tell me it isn't so. Why would I buy
I left 3 roll of Kodak Max 800 (in the plastic tubes)on
the seat yeaterday for a few hours(i forgot to put them back
in the bag)the truck was not in shade and the tubes would have been
in direct sun for about 5-6 hours.
Are these still ok or am i toast
IMNSHO, those rolls are toast. Oh,
I may be going to the AMA Superbike races at Mid-Ohio on July 21-22 so I
thought I'd take the camera gear and try my hand at some mostorsports photography
for the first time.
I'll be using my PZ-1p and I expect the 300/2.8 and teleconverters (1.7x
and 2x) will be getting a workout but any advice
Mike wrote:
Greetings, Pentaxians!
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I spent an enjoyable half hour talking about all things Pentax
with the knowledgable and Pentax-loving salesguy, while dry-firing the
MZ-S
and exploring its features. I had some strong reactions to it.
Oh, you're going to leave us hanging with just that?
Isaac Crawford wrote:
In my experience of buying and selling used equipment, most lenses
aren't built very well today regardless of who made them. The FA* lenses
are an exception, along with other camera manufacturers top end lenses.
I've never seen a third party manufactured lens that
Yeah yeah... :-) I didn't mean to start a thread about manipulation vs.
non-manipulation (or did I)? No, I didn't really. Not without Mafud!!!
I agree that there are various forms of manipulation. Any printing of
a
negative, is a manipulation of sorts, as it's an interpretation of the
I bought a used Minolta Scan Multi II a few months ago and absolutely love
it but I've discovered I didn't get all the software that should have been
bundled with it. Hoping someone can help me out.
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Anyone have any experience selling images for web pages? I have lots of
good photographs that would be suitable for use by local businesses on their
web pages (many of which are in desperate need of *some* kind of graphic
enlivenment!) and I'm thinking of approaching a few of them soon. I'm
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Do any of these cameras have a full frame 6 meg sensors? I'm assuming
the Casio, Toshiba and Sony don't have interchangeable lenses.
As far as I know, and I don't pay too much attention, the only
competitor is the Contax that uses the same chip that's due out.
Both Canon
Hi Mark,
I picked up that Rohn Engh book, How to Sell (and Resell) Your Photos,
that someone on the list suggested several months ago. I think he's got
pretty detailed information about pricing and contracts in there. In fact,
I'm trying to remember if you were the one who recommended this
I visited minolta site and was surprised to see that software for Minolta
Scan Multi II is not FREE.
Yes. Fortunately it's not the scanner software itself that I'm looking for
(I have that) but rather the extra software that came bundled with it.
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Anyone know how the Slinky was invented?
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Obviously an engineer, Bill. How about just unwinding
it back on itself. Although I think it is going to be
impossible to describe over email.
Jody.
Collin wrote:
Anyone know how to untangle a Slinky?
Hi Collin,
HA! I've
Paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
How rare are black MX bodies? i have one, but its not mint, i assumed
they were just as common as silver.
They were an extra US$ 5 or so when the MX was new.
Of course, we frugal Yank's bought only the silver ones.
So the black are more rare and
I finally got around to developing and scanning my black and white (Pentax
645, Ilford Pan-F) from Grandfather Mountain. I'm still not thrilled with
my bw scans; although I'm getting quite good at color work in Photoshop,
I find that I have a much easier time getting my black white work to look
These adapters do exist. Smile Photo (one of the less reputable places that
advertise in the back of every U.S. photo magazine) sells them for $49.95.
At least one person on the list has one (Tiger Moses, I think?) so you may
get some actual use impressions.
I believe someone used one of these
URL didn't work for me (even after cutting and pasting it together).
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http://www.tradingpost.com.au/search-
results/ad_view/1,,,00.html?CD_CPD=%21trvC4b3nskdtCD_NPD=%21trOu
9DvVNIVQitemNum=13
Might have to cut and paste the URL.
Cheers,
Rob Studdert
HURSTVILLE
Another question about the 645 lens adapter for k-mount bodies: Is it still
available? (And if so, how much does it cost?)
Now here's the interesting part: Since the 645 lenses project a much larger
image circle than k-mount (35mm) lenses, I'm thinking about having a machinist
make or modify me
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At GFM one of the speakers was
John Ashburn, who uses Canon. He had the 100-400 IS, or whatever it is,
and it's pretty amazing...you can handhold it at 1/60 at *400mm*...I
tried it and it's un-freaking-believable.
I have no idea whether or not the glass is any good, but I
Just downloaded my seb server stats for the past month. My Pentax service
manual page must have hit the search engines pretty well. Looks like I'm
probably taking a bit of income away from the eBay photocopier profiteers
selling service manual copies.
Here are the files and the download numbers
I'll bet you within a year every SLR manufacturer will be copying the MZ-s's
data imprinting feature. It just absolutely rocks.
Might be a problem for people who shoot reversal film and don't do their
own slide mounting though. (I can see a market for some kind of gizmo that
pries open your
Yes, but the filters that slide into Cokin holders are rectangular; what
he's looking for is an ND grad with the dividing line between light and
dark running through the *long* axis of the rectangle. If he rotates a standard
ND grad he'll have the left side of the sky dark and the right side
Just got my two rolls of pushed film from the Grandfather Mountain weekend
and I can report that E100VS and E100SW both seem to push 1 stop very nicely
indeed. I'll be scanning them for my Grandfather Weekend web page shortly.
I have more film undeveloped. They'll be following shortly.
Mark
Does anyone know if you can get a Cokin P mount ND grad where the grad
runs 90 degrees to the normal?
This would allow for the filter to be mounted sideways and have less
of
a problem with Vignetting on Wideangle lenses.
I don't know if I understand you...you're saying you want to have the
Got home from the Grandfather Mountain Nature Photography Weekend last night.
It was definitely something I'd recommend to anyone who's interested in
nature photography or just enjoying the outdoors in a spectacular setting.
Very nice to meet several PDML people in person. Got to see some very
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K105/2.8 - $230+? (this I would call semi-rare,
it's old and some folks love it)
That's about what I paid for mine about a year ago, KEH EX+
condition - and I love it!
Does this mean I got a deal? I paid $110.00 Canadian for mine,
in EX+ condition.
Oh no, not at
Peter Alling writes:
The third place photo while technically very good is a bit to cluttered.
(Are the photo credits correct did the same photographer submit both 1st
and 3rd? Hard to believe...)
He actually won last month as well with a shot I thought was pretty good
(but still outdone by at
...and it looks like I'll be leaving the sunscreen at home and packing my
Gore-Tex.
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As part of a recent eBay purchase I received a nice SMC-M50/1.7. It's in
very nice condition indeed except for one odd thing: It's missing the rubber
grip on the focusing ring.
Anyone got anything like this (possibly from a junk lens)? I suspect one
from a 50/2.0 would be the same.
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I'd like to check the weather forecast for the Grandfather Mountain Nature
Photography weekend but I'm wondering what city I should be looking up.
Any suggestions anyone?
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Make sure the shutter works and that the film wind feels smooth. Check that
the meter and autoexposure respond to light changes. You might also check
the condition of the mirror cushion foam.
Download yourself an owner's manual and service manual if you like at
Black ME Supers weren't particularly rare when they were made but ones in
good condition are kind of rare now because the black finish wasn't very
durable.
That would be a good price if the camera is in good shape. If it's got any
significant paint wear on the trim or any brassing on the top or
ehm, probably a few kilometers at most. If I make it I'll be at Kala Patar
near Everest Base camp!!!
ie. I'll be in the Himalaya's, hehehe.
I'd say there are two diffenent possibilities for your ideal lens:
1. Just your *best* lens, whatever the focal length (and whatever your definition
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