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The FT2 was a freebie that came with the Spotmatic. The Spottie with the 135/3.5 was $15, and the Spot II was $12. All items were acquired at the swap meet.
-J
What can I say...? The Retina IIIc is a much better designed camera (than the agfa), but the Solagon renders 3x more beautiful images than the Retina-Xenar. It gets easily evident in prints.Hey, at least the back is attached! I love my Vitessa L, but who ever thought a fully detachable back was a good idea? If the Solagon is as good as the Vitessa's f 2 Ultron I'll be happy.
What can I say...? The Retina IIIc is a much better designed camera (than the agfa), but the Solagon renders 3x more beautiful images than the Retina-Xenar. It gets easily evident in prints.
Them's fighting words!What can I say...? The Retina IIIc is a much better designed camera (than the agfa), but the Solagon renders 3x more beautiful images than the Retina-Xenar. It gets easily evident in prints.
Them's fighting words!
All Retina IIIc product:
Them's fighting words!
All Retina IIIc product:
Also, why did Agfa omit strap lugs/eyelets from at least the IV?
Crazy low prices for good equipment - congratulations.
How was the swap meet? Attendance (by visitors) good? What were the coolest things there?
From Puyallup days I miss the Friday evening unpacking event and looking at other vendors' stuff. Sadly, the seller I used to go with passed away (WWII vet - took reconnaissance photos in the Pacific south sea islands).
I'm not familiar with this model, but something occurred to me. Do you have the case for this camera? Might the case design be such that the strap attaches exclusively to the case, thus obviating the apparent need for attachment points at the camera? I agree with you, btw, just trying to figurre out why they would do such a thing.
Them's fighting words!
All Retina IIIc product:
Olympus 35 RC. Lens is at the sweet 42mm focal length, the selected aperture and shutter speeds are visible in the viewfinder, all shutter speeds work, auto-aperture works (i.e. shutter priority), rangefinder is accurate, self-timer works. This is the first clean, fully functioning 35 RC I've found. Nice!
Wow.!Olympus 35 RC. Lens is at the sweet 42mm focal length, the selected aperture and shutter speeds are visible in the viewfinder, all shutter speeds work, auto-aperture works (i.e. shutter priority), rangefinder is accurate, self-timer works. This is the first clean, fully functioning 35 RC I've found. Nice!
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An absolutely mint like new Canon F1n body I paid a very reasonable price for, the only marks on the body are two feint scratches on the base. I'm just shooting a test slide film with it at the moment, but by the cosmetic condition of the camera it's hard to believe it's about forty years old, and it certainly hasn't had professional use.
I love Canon F1's and decided to use them just about exclusively because after nearly thirty years of using the model I can use them instinctively, I now have five (3 New F1's and 2 F1n's) I don't have fifty cameras like some members of this forum and I have sold three cameras recently because I decided to get rid of stuff I didn't use and to replace it with stuff I would.You lucky boy!!
A local photo studio had a going out of business sale, 70 years worth of gear. That is where both Graflex cameras, the Mamiyas, the Korona, and the Century Studio camera came from. I am probably going to re-home the big studio camera, and one or both of the Mamiya bodies. I also bought this 14 1/2" Verito lens for the studio camera.I'll say you've been busy!
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