M42(-compatible) camera with spot metering?

Autonerd · Feb 16, 2023

xkaes said:
As I've already mentioned twice, they were L'EGGs pantyhose. L'EGGs is called L'EGGs because it's pantyhose, not bras.

One can only imagine, if the same company did make bras, what they would have called them.

It does remind me of an old Gallagher joke, which I hope is not too racy for this forum (mods, yellow alert). I'm paraphrasing: "Do the people who make cigarettes called Dorals also make suppositories called Danals?"

Aaron

George Mann · Feb 16, 2023

xkaes said:
Have you checked out the Minolta MAXXUM 5? That's the most full-featured film camera I have, and also the smallest and lightest -- and has spot metering.

I use to have a Nikon N70, and although capable, I find these plastic laden marvels to feel like toys. And the weight of the better made cameras help to achieve a steady shot.

MattKing · Feb 16, 2023

Autonerd said:
One can only imagine, if the same company did make bras, what they would have called them.

Apparently Hanes (who made L'Eggs) actually did co-market bras along with the pantyhose under the L'Eggs name, but yes, the container you want is the one that the pantyhose came in.

eli griggs · Feb 16, 2023

I though I've already posted in this thread, but the best 42mm camera with spot metering or other metering paradigm and layout is the Canon F1n and F1N are which have excellent interchangeable focusing screens in three different metering patterns, including six spot patterns and layouts for a total of 32 choices

I've never had a FD spot screen, preferring stand alone meters, but the Canon FD system F1's are also easily adaptable to M42 lenses and I use Pentax lenses regularly on my F1's.

Cheers.

xkaes · Feb 17, 2023

....and weigh a ton.

BrianShaw · Feb 17, 2023

MattKing said:
... but yes, the container you want is the one that the pantyhose came in.

Good luck with that; 30+ year old memories...

Though the L'eggs egg was integral to the brand image, in 1991 Hanes ceased packaging the hosiery in plastic eggs as sustainable packaging became the industry norm; the package was redesigned into an egg-shaped cardboard form which is much more easily recycled.[4]

[4] Ramirez, Anthony (July 10, 1991). "L'eggs Makes Big Switch: From Plastic to Cardboard". The New York Times. p. D7. Retrieved May 31, 2015.

eli griggs · Feb 17, 2023

xkaes said:
....and weigh a ton.

The thing that gives the Legendary F1 cameras their high quality and endurance IS the weight of that heavy material.

Which is more desirable gift, a used plastic camera that will be disposed of in a few years or a used 'old' F1 that can still be shooting fifty years from now?

Which memory would cherished more as a working heirloom?

eli griggs · Feb 17, 2023

BrianShaw said:
Good luck with that; 30+ year old memories...

Though the L'eggs egg was integral to the brand image, in 1991 Hanes ceased packaging the hosiery in plastic eggs as sustainable packaging became the industry norm; the package was redesigned into an egg-shaped cardboard form which is much more easily recycled.[4]

[4] Ramirez, Anthony (July 10, 1991). "L'eggs Makes Big Switch: From Plastic to Cardboard". The New York Times. p. D7. Retrieved May 31, 2015.

I have seen L'eggs plastic egg cases in many, low rent junk shops, usually with the toys and, stuffed animals and in baggies of toys in Value Villages, etc.

xkaes · Feb 17, 2023

eli griggs said:
The thing that gives the Legendary F1 cameras their high quality and endurance IS the weight of that heavy material.

I don't disagree, but I didn't make up Lucius' request. In the OP it's stated:

"...there are the Mamiyas (DTL, DSX): I got a DSX almost for free, but haven't tried it so far (its meter behaves weirdly), and anyway it's heavier than I like."

"There's a Miranda model with spot metering, but it's quite heavy too (i.e. like a Mamiya DSX)."

The Canon F cameras are DOA for consideration, regardless of their abilities. Hence my suggestion for the Minolta MAXXUM 5. Does eveything that the Canon F does -- and more -- in a much smaller body that weight less than half as much.

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