Recent content by summicron1

This Canon F1, original all-mechanical model, is one I bought back in my accumulation days and now needs a new home. It has, you can see, that lovely "I'm a serious-professional-photographer" brassing look some folks actually try to fake, but this is real -- the camera was purchased from a...

i've had an R4 for a long time and always found the program mode to be the least reliable -- backlighting seems to fool it more than other cameras, so I just use it in either manual or aperture auto mode so I have more control. At this point it's a very old camera and even when new some of the...

still no takers. Unbelievable.

Well, you are getting an insanely well-made and technologically amazing camera for a cupla hundred dollars with the added advantage that it uses Leica R (all cams plus only third cam) lenses. My R4 cost the equivalent of about $5,000 new, more or less. You are getting a camera that really...

One thing not mentioned is that R lenses made by Minolta were made to Leica specifications. Ditto cameras -- my CL was made -- yes -- by Minolta, but 50 years on and a couple trips to the shop and a cupla drops, hey it's still going strong. I was worried once it was wearing out so bought a...

In Utah my first and highest recommendation would be the University's special collections library -- in Utah they are legally charged with collecting stuff like this, and gladly do so. The California Historical Society would also be someplace that would probably gladly give body parts for such...

Out of my price range and I'm too old to be buying more collectibles, but FYI -- when consulting eBay the thing to do is not look at what folks are asking or what things are listed for, look at what they have sold for. You can filter for "sold/completed" listing in the menu on the left side of...

well, in my experience it's not a good sound in any event, and I had an AE1 that died shortly after making that noise. In any event, this does not do that. Thanks. Did I mention this comes with a really cool hippie strap?

Cannot believe I'm letting this gem go, but it's time. This is a Canon A1, the upgraded AE1, with many modes. It is in really wonderful operating condition, which is to say it has NO LIGHT LEAKS, makes proper exposures and does NOT HAVE that annoying squeal which usually indicates these are...

The Sputnik is a pretty good performer -- i have one and enjoy using it. You should flock the interior to cut down on internal reflections, and it takes some fiddling to match the f-stops of the two lenses which, because of the way they're mounted and linked, can get out of synch. Another...

There is no one answer. This is a very subjective thing. The best thing to do is shoot one for 6 months and see how you like it. Then shoot the other for 6 months. Ponder the results. Which results do you like best? There's your answer.

the decaying bodies are at The Body Farm, which is a scientifically run establishment at a university somewhere I forget google it yourself. It is used to study body decomposition, which provides a lot of scientific data -- among other things so that crime labs can tell when a person died. Many...

judging by what's on her web page, anyway, she's a very good technical photographer and a very experimental one and produces some lovely images you either like or you don't, and I can see that being on the extreme ends of that scale. The police removing art in any setting always reminds me of...

God's perfect enlarger.

Can NOT believe the amount of inattention this sale is drawing. Oh well. Time to learn eBay.