I've been somewhat busy lately. Shopping at shopgoodwill.com again. Sometimes you wins and sometimes you loses. For me, it was a mixed bag. Bought a Nikon FE2 with an AIs 55mm f/2.8 Micro Nikkor. Paid quite a bit for the outfit. The lens works perfectly but the camera is shot. Mechanically worn out and meter's dead. Good for parts only. Next I bought a Nikon N80 with the rare as hens teeth MB-16 battery pack. That was a good buy. Camera and battery pack are minty. And then there was the above EL2 I discussed. Finally, yesterday, a 4-camera lot I won arrived. I didn't pay much for it at all. The lot consisted of a Pentax Super Program, a Nikon FG, a Canon T70, and a Fuji STX-1n. All cameras came with lenses, except the Pentax. All cameras work, too. Whew!
I bid on this outfit mostly for all but the Pentax. Nothing wrong with it, it's just never a model that's appealed to me. I've been curious about Fuji cameras for quite a while -- heard great things about them, so I decided to pick one up. This one is a more modern one -- has the Fuji bayonet mount. A basic camera with Aperture priority AE and manual modes. Rather light and compact, but very solid feeling. I'm looking forward to putting a roll of film through it. I bought the Canon T70 because, even though I've been a Canon user for over 30 years, I've never owned a T70. The one aspect of the T70 that I find interesting, and that I want to investigate, is its partial metering mode. So I'll be trying that out. And then there's the Nikon FG. Honestly, I wanted the FG because I have an MD-14 sitting here -- I've had it for months; it came as part of another shopgoodwill package deal -- and I wanted to make sure it worked before I tried to sell it. Well, it works. So well, in fact, that I'm wondering if I should sell the FG as an outfit or piecemeal them out. So of this lot, I'll most likely be keeping the T70 and adding it to my sizable Canon FD collection, and I'll also be keeping the Fuji just because. I actually like the FG/MD-14 outfit a lot, but I also have an FE/MD12 and an FE2/MD12 and I much prefer the FE and FE2 over the FG. And now, more recently, I have the EL2, which I also prefer over the FG. So if I kept the FG, I know it will seldom, if ever, get used. So I might as well just sell it.
I'd like to state I'm quit of shopgoodwill.com for a while, but that isn't likely. I visit that place almost every day, keeping my eyes peeled for various gems that may appear.
I bid on this outfit mostly for all but the Pentax. Nothing wrong with it, it's just never a model that's appealed to me. I've been curious about Fuji cameras for quite a while -- heard great things about them, so I decided to pick one up. This one is a more modern one -- has the Fuji bayonet mount. A basic camera with Aperture priority AE and manual modes. Rather light and compact, but very solid feeling. I'm looking forward to putting a roll of film through it. I bought the Canon T70 because, even though I've been a Canon user for over 30 years, I've never owned a T70. The one aspect of the T70 that I find interesting, and that I want to investigate, is its partial metering mode. So I'll be trying that out. And then there's the Nikon FG. Honestly, I wanted the FG because I have an MD-14 sitting here -- I've had it for months; it came as part of another shopgoodwill package deal -- and I wanted to make sure it worked before I tried to sell it. Well, it works. So well, in fact, that I'm wondering if I should sell the FG as an outfit or piecemeal them out. So of this lot, I'll most likely be keeping the T70 and adding it to my sizable Canon FD collection, and I'll also be keeping the Fuji just because. I actually like the FG/MD-14 outfit a lot, but I also have an FE/MD12 and an FE2/MD12 and I much prefer the FE and FE2 over the FG. And now, more recently, I have the EL2, which I also prefer over the FG. So if I kept the FG, I know it will seldom, if ever, get used. So I might as well just sell it.
I'd like to state I'm quit of shopgoodwill.com for a while, but that isn't likely. I visit that place almost every day, keeping my eyes peeled for various gems that may appear.