I'm coming close on sixty working cameras -- and I just bought an Ensign Commando from Lithuania and a second (!), listed as "serviced" Welta Weltini. I'm not a collector, I just like variety...
That makes me feel a lot betterI'm coming close on sixty working cameras.
I did see a nice SWC the other day that piqued my interestYou COULD buy a Hasselblad 903 or SWC to avoid buy the Nikon.
I did see a nice SWC the other day that piqued my interest
I think I've said this before but you're a horrible influence
I frequently do similar.I beg to differ. I have (for example) two Nikon F2 - one silver and one black . I carry them both with one set of lenses that they can (obviously) share. This allows me to...
1) load one with color (the silver one) and one with B&W (the black one) or,
2) load both with the same film and mount the 28mm lens on one and the 50mm (or 50mm and 105mm) on the other.
When traveling this is very handy and I find it comforting, if not entirely necessary, to have a ready backup.
I beg to differ. I have (for example) two Nikon F2 - one silver and one black . I carry them both with one set of lenses that they can (obviously) share. This allows me to...
1) load one with color (the silver one) and one with B&W (the black one) or,
2) load both with the same film and mount the 28mm lens on one and the 50mm (or 50mm and 105mm) on the other.
When traveling this is very handy and I find it comforting, if not entirely necessary, to have a ready backup.
I frequently do similar.
something like.......Body-1 has a 35 and Body-2 has an 85.
I do not have any zooms, so i look like somebody who is working in 1973.
Somebody help me...
Here, I'll help you . . . by pushing you over . . . black or chrome . . .
You're like the guy with the red suit and the pitchfork on my left shoulder. Unfortunately, there's some guy in a white suit with wings on my other shoulder who's a real downerNo, I am not a horrible influence. I am your personal enabler. Go ahead buy the Nikon and the Hasselblad SWC. You earned the money, you want them, you will use them, you deserve them, and you will enjoy them.
I do not have any zooms, so i look like somebody who is working in 1973.
Wow...... I think i paid about 200 for each of my Canon F-1I have one single zoom in M42 -- but after Monday's processing and last night's scanning (verifying correct slow speeds), I'm ready to look like 1973, as well. Both cameras would have been new-ish then... a pair of Kiev 4 bodies, one from 1971 and the other from 1973, one loaded with B&W, the other with color, each with a 50mm Jupiter-8, and along with filters, extra film, cable release, etc., a 35mm f/2.8 Jupiter-12 and 135mm f/4 Jupiter-11 (plus a Leitz 35-135 shoe mount viewfinder with parallax correction -- yeah, I know, but I needed a viewfinder worse than Soviet Purity).
Best thing about Kievs -- two bodies, two extra lenses, and I've got just about $200 into the kit. Worst thing about Kievs: hardly anyone will work on them, so I'm going to have to learn to do it myself.
Indeed.!Besides being instruments that take pictures, film cameras have much in common with guns and automobiles, in that mechanical design and construction can be appreciated in themselves. Many cameras are attractive in themselves. .
You're like the guy with the red suit and the pitchfork on my left shoulder. Unfortunately, there's some guy in a white suit with wings on my other shoulder who's a real downer
We recently had a terrible dinner experience. $120 wasted. All the time I was thinking "I could have bought film or another lens or film and a lens or another body or.."
Let's look at this objectively. You may not need another camera, but this is the most sophisticated Nikkormat model, and comes with the famous copy of a Summicron, which happens to be the best 50mm that nikon has ever made IMO.
You may find yourself preferring it over the FM in no time!
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