Another one from Italy

davdesmo

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Well, I'm here! Nice

Now I have to tell you who I am, hoping my english is good enough for you to understand...

I'm italian, born in north Italy (Genova) and now living in south Italy (Palermo).
46 yo, working in a Fiat plant testing new cars before they are on the market.
Loving life, motorcycles and photograpy of course!

My cameras are some old Canon FD-system (F1, FTb and FT) with different lenses in FL and old-FD series, plus a Nikon kit with a f801s camera (f8008 in USA) and three zoom lenses by Sigma and Tokina

I digitalize my pictures with two old film-scanners, a Canon FS2720 and an Acer ScanWit 2720s, using Vuescan in a Linux pc

That's all, for the moment...
Ciao from Italy
 

holmburgers

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Welcome! You were wise to join APUG. I hope you enjoy the community.
 

Ian Grant

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fotch said:
Hi and welcome to APUG. Your English is fine.
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What he means is much better than most Americans

Welcome to Apug, I'll be in Italy again in a few weeks, great country, and warm hearted people always friendly. My wife works for an Italian company and when you get a crowd of Italians together they can be great fun, breaking out into collective song at the least excuse, jokes flying left right and centre.

Ian
 

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Welcome to APUG. I think that you will find a lot of useful information here, along with the camaraderie of other film users.
 

papagene

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Hello and welcome to APUG from western Massachusetts USA.
 

Craig Swensson

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welcome davdesmo, you will enjoy it here. now, we just got a fiat, any chance you were the guy who tested it?....where have the smileys gone?
regards, Craig
 

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Ian Grant said:
when you get a crowd of Italians together they can be great fun, breaking out into collective song at the least excuse

Ian
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Good Lord!
Stop please, you make me feel so ashamed ...

Lorenzo (Italian)
 

faustotesta

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Benvenuto.
Fotograficamente parlando sei molto fortunato a vivere in Sicilia (beh vivere laggiù deve essere bello anche per altri motivi. Conosco un pò di Siciliani e devo dire che sono eccezionali).

English speakers ! We're about to conquer apug ! Shortly the official language here will be Latin ...
 

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Ian Grant said:
... when you get a crowd of Italians together they can be great fun, breaking out into collective song at the least excuse, jokes flying left right and centre. ...
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Benvenuto, davdesmo.

I hope there's room for a Norwegian in the chorus.
 

Sirius Glass

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Ciao e Benvenuto!

Welcome to APUG

Steve
 
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davdesmo

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Hi! Many thanks to all the friends who welcome me

I'll not be a frequently user of Apug, due to my work time, but I'm happy to be here

Ciao!
 

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Welcome from Southern California, davdesmo. So, which Ducati do you have?
 

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HI from Norway!

You might be interested that oine of my first cameras, and certainly my first 35mm camera was a Ferrania Lince3, with a Steinheil Cassar 2,8/45mm lens, and a vario shutter. Had it for 30 years, then stupidly gave it away, now have another that was recently excercised, with good results!

Im *kinda* interested in post-war italian cameras (the Lince3 was german-built, by Daccora), can you point us in the right direction?

Erik
 
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davdesmo

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@ lxdude: I own a '95 900SS, a '89 750 Indiana and a '71 450 Scrambler

@ Erik: before coming in Sicily I was living 50km far from Ferrania plant, near Savona (NW Italy) and I remember when I was young (SOB, it's a lot of time ago!) people using Ferrania cameras. But I never use it, only Ferrania films sometime (the most important was the ScotchColor 3200, made in Ferrania plant, simply fantastic!)
I don' know who can help you for your research, but I can try to ask some friend in an Italian photo forum

Ciao from Sicily
 

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I have book in the UK with a huge number of makes listed & described and more than 50% had disappeared in 2 or 3 years. I have many BJP Almanacs (yer books) with the camers as well. I'll look when I'm back late Autumn for you.

Ian
 

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Ciao from New Jersey!

Welcome to APUG!
 
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