Help me decide between Minolta Hi-Matic 9 and Canonet QL19

[narsuitus]

I hope 2015 posters realize that this is a resurrected 2008 thread and the original poster has probably made a decision by now.

https://flic.kr/p/8XWY9C

 

[pentaxuser]

I hope 2015 posters realize that this is a resurrected 2008 thread and the original poster has probably made a decision by now.

https://flic.kr/p/8XWY9C

One decision the OP has definitely made is not to post since 2009. Sometimes on APUG we get to the point of still replying to a 1945 post which asks: Is it dangerous to have Joe Stalin in charge of the USSR?

pentaxuser

 

[Paul Howell]

I would like to ask, what model you're talking about -
those old beauties like Konika I, II, and III(a) with their Hexanon lenses ?
Like them a lot !!

I had a late model III, I got it used and it was well worn, I already had a Kodak Retina III C big so at some point I either sold it or gave it away. The lens was either a 5 or 6 element, 6 element comes to mind, tack sharp at F 2. The viewfinder was better than the Retina and is easy to use.

 

[macfred]

^ - @PDH :

Thank you !

 

[Paul Howell]

^ - @PDH :

Thank you !

I checked on line to refresh my memory, the earlier IIIs were a 48mm F2, unmetered, the later IIIs were 50 1.8 and metered, had a cell that flipped up and when down acted as a cover for the rangefinder lens. I had the 48 F 2. Don't know how good the meter was or is on the later models.

 

[macfred]

^ The metered model was the IIIm with the 50/1.8 Hexanon lens http://www.pacificrimcamera.com/pp/konica/3m.htm

 

[macfred]

^ Konica III, IIIa and IIIm - an overview : http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Konica_(I),_II_and_III#Konica_III

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I am lusting for a Konica III with the Hexanon 48mm f/2 ...

 

[1L6E6VHF]

I hope 2015 posters realize that this is a resurrected 2008 thread and the original poster has probably made a decision by now.

I've been thinking of making lasting images with a camera obscura, but I can't decide whether to go for the vivid image of the daguerreotype, or just use the far simpler albumen paper.