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Post by unclebill on Dec 27, 2007 20:15:07 GMT -5
I love my new camera: a Nikon F3 HP with a Nikkor AiS 50 f1.8 Also got some film to go with it:
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Post by GeneW on Dec 27, 2007 20:34:40 GMT -5
Lovely Christmas gifts, Bill! And I see you've already posted pics on Flickr. Great results! (I love my F3 HP too)
Gene
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Post by SidW on Dec 27, 2007 20:34:48 GMT -5
Lovely. Santa's getting more and more knowledgeable every day.
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Post by nikonbob on Dec 27, 2007 21:10:40 GMT -5
Wow, wish I knew your Santa Claus. I am sure you will really enjoy that gift.
Bob
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Post by kiev4a on Dec 27, 2007 22:12:35 GMT -5
There's a reason they made the F3 from the early '80s to the turn of the century. It set thye final standard for manual focus SLRs. The film advance is as smooth a velvet. I have a MD for mine but never use it because the manual film advance is so wonderful.
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Post by doubs43 on Dec 28, 2007 3:12:29 GMT -5
What a wonderful Christmas gift, Bill. That should give you years of pleasure and first class pictures. I'm sure you'll put it to good use.
Walker
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Post by minoltaman on Dec 28, 2007 9:23:39 GMT -5
Nice freakin' camera!! Good shooting and Happy New Year!!
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Post by Randy on Dec 28, 2007 9:59:01 GMT -5
Very Nice! I got two lumps of coal. ;D
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Post by doubs43 on Dec 28, 2007 12:48:33 GMT -5
Very Nice! I got two lumps of coal. ;D What...... no bundle of switches with the coal? Walker
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Post by PeterW on Dec 28, 2007 17:45:47 GMT -5
Randy: Better than one lump - and twice as good as no coal at all. I didn't get any cameras. I specially asked not as I'm desperately trying to get some space, do some pruning, concentrate on my favourite era and put some sort of order into a smaller collection. At the moment I've got so many cameras wrapped and packed away in boxes it's a major logistics operation even to look at them, let alone get a chance to use them. I reckon in the first few months of next year I'll be saying: "Oh, Hello camera. Long time no see!". Some one once said: "A photographer takes pictures with his cameras. A collector takes pictures of his cameras". Very astute observation. As I dig out half-forgotten cameras and pieces of photophernalia over the next few months I'll take some pictures of them and post them. However, among my presents from Santa (via my son and daughter-in-law) was a lovely book about the life of ordinary working people in Britain from 1900 to 1960. Very few celebrities, no posed portraits, no 'pretties', no great historic events, but well-written text and masses of really great photographs with well-researched captions of ordinary people at home, at work, at play, in the street - nearly all of which I had never seen before. The author, a lady from New Zealand, really studied her subject. Each time I open it I find more to look at in each picture. Just one very small niggle - no photographer credits. So many of them have got that (to me) unmistakable 'pro' stamp about them and I'd love to know who they were. But then, possibly most of them were staffers, and staffers, it's well known, never got credits. PeterW
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Post by GeneW on Dec 29, 2007 6:56:30 GMT -5
Some one once said: "A photographer takes pictures with his cameras. A collector takes pictures of his cameras". Ouch! You mean like this? :-) I didn't get this FM10 for Christmas. It had been on loan to me from a friend so I'd have a lightweight Nikon body to carry around during my cardio rehab. A couple of days ago we did a trade and I got this for a Bessa L. Cosina for Cosina :-) Gene
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Post by mickeyobe on Dec 29, 2007 11:06:52 GMT -5
Bill,
The thought of sitting on Santa's lap never appealed to me but if your results are an example of the rewards well ....... ..... next year ......
Mickey
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Post by SidW on Dec 30, 2007 20:26:00 GMT -5
Very Nice! I got two lumps of coal. ;D Say nuggets of coal, Randy, that stuff is going to be scarce in the future, when the wealthy have to ride horses again and the resto of us are crawling on our hands and knees. Your great grandchildren will bless you for making them into millionaires.
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Post by drako on Jan 8, 2008 14:21:37 GMT -5
Very nice, indeed. This one is on my wish list (along with 22 others)
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Post by kiev4a on Jan 8, 2008 16:11:27 GMT -5
As much as I like the F3HP, I think I miss my F4 more than I would miss the F3. The F4 felt like it had been machined out of a single steel billet. An awesome camera.
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