Posted on 07/29/2010 8:46:17 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
Then my brother and I went in on the first of two Canon SLRs, which I later sold and switched to a pair of nice Oly OM2ns and a Mamiya TLR. They were stolen a couple years later.
Time passed. Finally bought my first Canon film EOS (I had met their manager of design). Now it's two film EOSes and two digital EOSes later. Fortunately, I was able to sell or give away all of these, except for the one I use today.
Now I'm getting 7D/60D fever. Of course, I need to get out more--to the Gulf or Atlantic coasts--on pixpeditions to try to justify the investment in what I already have. We'll see what happens.
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Canon stuff is for people with inferiority complexes!
lol...You might be right, but they make good cameras, and I would recommend them if you ever decide to buy another.
Have fun with your current camera!
You probably have a bayonet mount in the middle of your chest.
Like Tony Stark.
BTW, I’ve seen your shots of birds...Great work!
Solid. Remind me to ask you about 35mm film sometime.
A few years back someone was bidding crazy and buying almost every UZ1 that showed up on Ebay. It drove UZ1 prices through the roof. The rumor was that someone wanted them for spy cameras.
I suppose most of them are about worn out now, mine is balky sometimes. It has caught some glorius pictures for a tiny little old camera.
You can buy a scanner for about $150.00, I’m considering an Epson V300. There are really cheap ones but they aren’t much for quality.
It wasn’t for “spying” like you’re thinking.
Like the old Sony videocams, you could put a particular filter on it and “see through” women’s clothes.
Seriously.
[if I ever get desperate for money, I have 2 Sony HandiCams with that “feature” I could sell...but no “X-Ray” filters...sorry]...LOL
Get a scanner that does negatives and slides.
My old Acer is still going strong, 14 years later.
I have it hooked to a spare desk top running WinXP Pro just so the drivers will still work.
They have new ones available and the resolution is however high *you* choose it to be.
The mode dial is a weak point, lots of them would still work if the dial hadn't failed.
It was a $1400.00 camera when it came out although OLY had to reduce prices to get them really moving.
Our darkroom was in the basement bathroom. Sealed the window with cardboard, and caulked the cracks in the door with dark tape and a towel at the bottom. The film processing tank was an Ansco daylight type. We put the Testrite diffuser-type enlarger on the toilet seat, a Brownie safelight in the fixture over the mirror, ran water in the sink to wash the prints, and had a board over that for our three processing trays. All Kodak chemistry as I recall.
Dad had done photo processing at home years before I was born, and still used photographic processes in his work. He built a print drying apparatus from scratch, and we used to have to squeegee the hell out of the prints face down on the ferrotyping tin to get them coming out reasonably glossy when they dried and popped free of the tin.
B&W only in those years.
A few years after that, my brother-in-law, who collected old vehicles, bought a complete Speed Graphic set from an old news photographer. It had a back for 2-1/4 x 3-1/4 pack film.
He wanted to sell his Model A in the Auto Trader; so we went down to the photo shop and got a pack of Plus-X (it held something like 8 or 12 shots—don’t recall). We drove that Model A up to the circular drive in front of the portico of the mansion where his brother-in-law lived.
I positioned myself about 50 feet away, at the front of the lawn, being sure to get a goodly expanse of the mansion behind the car. The best of the bracketed shots turned out beautifully, and made an excellent ad in the Auto Trader. That Ford sold pretty quick!
I think my first one was around $600.
[B&H Photo, IIRC]
We never had problems with the mode dials...it was always the freaking battery compartment covers.
Worst digicam I ever bought was a Fuji that wrote to CDs.
Ugh.
Never again.
They're going on EBay for $20.
I still have a C2500L but it crashes periodically. It was one of the first DSLRs, and an aggravating little machine, LOL. It will take good pics only on certain phases of the moon!
LOL!
[we just used duct tape ‘til we located a cheap dead parts camera]
There are other epoxy products for plastic that don't have the solvent action, they don't bond reliably.
I’ve been off doing and reading other things, but somehow I knew I’d find you right here.
How’d you get it sit still so long?
We can fight about which camera was best. My AE-1 reflected with true accuracy my life and events. If only our current issues were such simple arguments-life would be grand.
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