Exactly what is a double reflex camera. When I goggled it, I only saw twin lens reflex cameras.
I assume it has one lens but two mirrors.
How many cameras have you had.....?
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Exactly what is a double reflex camera. When I goggled it, I only saw twin lens reflex cameras.
I assume it has one lens but two mirrors.
Whoops...to finish earlier post: Now have remaining, Nikon F2ASx4, F2A, F2, F3P, F3HP, F5, F6 ; Leica M6x2; Hasselblad 500c/m x2. And still wrestling with the nagging suspicion that I still have too much. Go figure.
Too many.
If only Digital hadn't become prevalent. I'd still be shooting with a black FM and a chrome FM2n. The FM2n is the camera I miss the most. Shot with it from 1991 until 2004 when I bought an F3P and used both bodies, a MD-11, and a beater 55/2.8 as trade fodder for the P. I eventually got the 55/2.8 back, but didn't buy my FM2n back. Probably should've.
I just gave my last Nikkormat to Ralph Javins (a black FT2 that I had overhauled - was the 117th Nikkormat I've owned). Parted out the 35th FM2n (total of 53 FE/FM series bodies) I've owned a couple nights ago. I still have my 12th F2 (out of 23 bodies), a very late model black F2AS that saw Sover Wong, am on my 6th F3P (again, 23 bodies total), and have my 21st F, a late '72 build F FTn with F-36, coming from Toby Fitch on FB. I've also had 24 F4 bodies with a couple of them being parts bodies. 10 F5 bodies, a couple FG bodies, an EM, a N2000 and N2020, two N8008 bodies, and a N90. Pentax-wise, four H3v/SV bodies, three(?) Spotmatics, a Spotmatic II, Spotmatic F parts camera, a ME Super, a Super Program (actually Super A - black version), and possibly something else. I've also had a Maxxum 9000, three Hasselblad 500c bodies (one being an actual c, and the other two being the mismarked transitional c-c/m models), a 500EL that didn't work, and a Canon FTb.
The cameras I regret buying: the 500EL, the latest FM2n (as well as one I bought in late 2005 with warped shutter curtains), some of the Nikkormat bodies that turned out to be crap, and some others that I don't remember.
Regret selling: the aforementioned chrome FM2n, probably my 7768947 serial F2A, the loaded F5 I had in 2011, my original F3P, even though it was the ugliest of the six, and the F4 I wound up trading for the 500EL.
-J
If only Digital hadn't become prevalent. I'd still be shooting with a black FM and a chrome FM2n. The FM2n is the camera I miss the most. Shot with it from 1991 until 2004 when I bought an F3P and used both bodies, a MD-11, and a beater 55/2.8 as trade fodder for the P. I eventually got the 55/2.8 back, but didn't buy my FM2n back. Probably should've.
I just gave my last Nikkormat to Ralph Javins (a black FT2 that I had overhauled - was the 117th Nikkormat I've owned). Parted out the 35th FM2n (total of 53 FE/FM series bodies) I've owned a couple nights ago. I still have my 12th F2 (out of 23 bodies), a very late model black F2AS that saw Sover Wong, am on my 6th F3P (again, 23 bodies total), and have my 21st F, a late '72 build F FTn with F-36, coming from Toby Fitch on FB. I've also had 24 F4 bodies with a couple of them being parts bodies. 10 F5 bodies, a couple FG bodies, an EM, a N2000 and N2020, two N8008 bodies, and a N90. Pentax-wise, four H3v/SV bodies, three(?) Spotmatics, a Spotmatic II, Spotmatic F parts camera, a ME Super, a Super Program (actually Super A - black version), and possibly something else. I've also had a Maxxum 9000, three Hasselblad 500c bodies (one being an actual c, and the other two being the mismarked transitional c-c/m models), a 500EL that didn't work, and a Canon FTb.
The cameras I regret buying: the 500EL, the latest FM2n (as well as one I bought in late 2005 with warped shutter curtains), some of the Nikkormat bodies that turned out to be crap, and some others that I don't remember.
Regret selling: the aforementioned chrome FM2n, probably my 7768947 serial F2A, the loaded F5 I had in 2011, my original F3P, even though it was the ugliest of the six, and the F4 I wound up trading for the 500EL.
-J
Thanks, John. I stand corrected.
As I mentioned above, there is that lingering feeling that I am still over-equipped. lol And I also forgot to mention my original F3/MD4, purchased new in 1981, that I traded for an F2 w/24mm F2 Ai Nikkor and a Halliburton 103.
As I mentioned above, there is that lingering feeling that I am still over-equipped. lol And I also forgot to mention my original F3/MD4, purchased new in 1981, that I traded for an F2 w/24mm F2 Ai Nikkor and a Halliburton 103.
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All I know is that if anyone is concerned that they might have too many Nikons, John and Bradley are not the people I would suggest they talk to.
Take a look at the Tessina. It is a double reflex camera. One mirror for the viewfinder and one for the film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessina
Nor Ralph (Ralph Javins). In his case, probably not a good idea to discuss having too many Russian or Minolta cameras as well. At least, in my case, I haven't owned them all at once. The most bodies I've had at one time was 11 or 12. I caught flack from a former Nikonians member for not taking every single camera and lens that I owned with me on a roadtrip to Oregon at the end of 2007 and beginning of 2008. I did have an F2 and an F5, in addition to the FM2n, in the bag, but, the only camera I shot with was the FM2n. Used it to take a few photos at the state capitol in Salem, with a 50/1.4 Nikkor-S. Even removed the MD-12 and left that in the bag, which was left under a table in the hotel room. When I get above four or five film cameras total, it gets hard to decide what I want to shoot with. I frequently don't wind up shooting at all.
-J
What a fascinating little thing!
Ahh, the dreaded "paralysis of choice".
Fortunately, having multiple cameras manifests itself in many people including myself, as the luxury of choice.
I've had eight cameras and have settled on two: a Canon F1N with standard prism and a Leica M6. Both are tremendous cameras that compliment each other nicely. The weakness of one is the strength of the other.
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