Slowly progressing to the uselessness of Rolex
Leica’s new $23,000 film camera is platinum-plated and destined for collector shelves
A platinum anniversary that costs more than a wedding.www.theverge.com
After watching some videos about contemporary mechanical watch production [and the fact that the watch makers are thriving ] I wish more people would buy those collector cameras. Personally I'd rather have the collector camera than a fine watch.
After watching some videos about contemporary mechanical watch production [and the fact that the watch makers are thriving ] I wish more people would buy those collector cameras. Personally I'd rather have the collector camera than a fine watch.
Rangefinders and periscopes are mutually exclusive. wink..
I am also wondering why cameras don't have jewels, ...
That would be me. I've actually built a couple mechanical watches from parts (movement, dial, hands, case, crystal). Setting hands is tedious, but doable with 6x magnification reading glasses. Both of my watches are based on the Seiko NH34 movement in a 36mm case (I like smaller watches). One is a daily wear watch based loosely on a Sinn 556 field watch. The other is a little dressier and only comes out when I need something a little "prettier".3) People that just like cool mechanical things
Holy cow.... so maybe Compass camera has about 100 quartz ?...actually...if you look closely at the escapement of this mechanical Yashica that takes Minox film...
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Aliexpress has tons of watch parts and there's a DIY watchmakers community as their consumer. I am currently browsing around but most of the cases are 40mm. I can't stand a "wall clock on the wrist trend", the trend has been going on forever. I am a practical person so I would not need more than 1 automatic watch.That would be me. I've actually built a couple mechanical watches from parts (movement, dial, hands, case, crystal). Setting hands is tedious, but doable with 6x magnification reading glasses. Both of my watches are based on the Seiko NH34 movement in a 36mm case (I like smaller watches). One is a daily wear watch based loosely on a Sinn 556 field watch. The other is a little dressier and only comes out when I need something a little "prettier".
Chris
I only recently became aware of the market for watch parts at Aliexpress. I got my parts from boutique providers when I was building mine. Actually, one of my watches started out as a Seiko 5 field watch, but I didn't care for the dial or strap. Next thing I knew, I had replaced everything but the movement and case. Then, I decided I *must* have a hand-winding and hacking movement, so here came the NH34 movement.Aliexpress has tons of watch parts and there's a DIY watchmakers community as their consumer. I am currently browsing around but most of the cases are 40mm. I can't stand a "wall clock on the wrist trend", the trend has been going on forever. I am a practical person so I would not need more than 1 automatic watch.
Imagine if we can just buy assemblies for our DIY Leica M3 or Canon FTb. That will be cool.
That would be cool. There were graticules visible thru the scope. Those lines. And a stadimeter built onto the bottom of the scope. You could calculate range with a known masthead height of the ship you were looking at. But all that was a long time ago…. I‘d call this two divisions in high power.IIRC, the periscopes on submarines actually have rangefinders built in to them
Slowly progressing to the uselessness of Rolex
Leica’s new $23,000 film camera is platinum-plated and destined for collector shelves
A platinum anniversary that costs more than a wedding.www.theverge.com
They're on the downhill again now. The people who bought the products using excess money from Pandemic are now having other interests.
I am also wondering why cameras don't have jewels, if we do maybe we won't need CLA
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