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Post by aceroadholder on Aug 7, 2008 20:25:52 GMT -5
Very good!.... but you don't get ALL the extra points.
Look carefully at the lens on the cameras. The Sears and Tower have a large button on the left hand side of the lens, while the Argus has a very small button to the lower right of the lens. The lenses on the Sears and Tower won't fit the Argus. The Sears and Tower are Exacta mounts with the actuation bolt like the Mamiya flavored Prismat, but the Argus is bayonet mount (special to this ONE camera as best anyone can tell) with a small unlock button on the front. There are mechanical differences in the camera's front ends to allow for the different types of mounts.
Now... everybody go get a life!! We know entirely too much about extraordinarily obscure topics.... but you never can tell.. maybe 'Know your Prismats' will be a category on Jepardy next week!
Orlin "I'll take 'Prismats' for $800, Alex" Pettit
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Post by aceroadholder on Aug 4, 2008 18:58:17 GMT -5
And now for the bonus round: The Sears, Tower, and Argus are Mamiya Prismat cameras. If you look closely they appear identical except for the rebadge plates. The speed coupled light meter perched on the Argus works perfectly on both of the other cameras. However, the cameras are not identical. Why?
Orlin in SC/USA
ps: the Prismat is my favorite 35mm camera.
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Post by aceroadholder on Apr 13, 2008 19:33:31 GMT -5
Well, you could always calculate your fuel economy in firkins per furlong per fortnight. The metric system is not all it's cracked up to be as far as usefulness is concerned. An example would be the present metric unit for pressure, the Pascal. One Pascal is less than 1/100,000 the standard atmospheric pressure. They used to use kg/cm**, but that must have made too much sense for the French. I think the Imperial system makes better sense.. e.g. air conditioning systems rated in tons.
Orlin in SC/USA
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Post by aceroadholder on Dec 16, 2006 11:55:52 GMT -5
Gene, it just dawned on me that your photo of your new Bessaflex is the most attractive illustration of this camera that I've seen. I think more black ones would have been sold if your picture had been used to advertise it. I had been of the opinion that the Topcon styled model was the better looking.... now I'm not so sure. This may very well be the last new 35mm SLR camera made. From what I can gather, this camera fortunately shares a lot of components with the Cosina rangefinder cameras. Cosina may be able to keep making these 35mm cameras for a time if a tiny portion of the photographic market still wants them. I imagine the total number of cameras Cosina makes every year must be small.
Orlin in SC/USA
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Post by aceroadholder on Feb 7, 2008 0:49:29 GMT -5
J.D., I always assume that a camera will have to be worked on to be usable. Whatever you pay on ebay, assume that you will have to spend an additional $90-$125 to have it cleaned and sorted out. Sometimes you get lucky, but generally a 40 year old SLR needs a good clean/lube/adjustment no matter how pretty it is. In my opinion, having a marginal working camera is a waste of your time... and it is miserable to have your photographs ruined by equipment when the photographer (me) isn't all that good to begin with.
Orlin Pettit, SC/USA
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Post by aceroadholder on Nov 2, 2007 11:06:47 GMT -5
Bob, my guess is that with the current camera SLR market the chances of such a camera being developed is somewhat less than zero. You have to keep reminding yourself of what a tiny portion of the picture taking market that we are.
Orlin in SC/USA
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Post by aceroadholder on Nov 6, 2007 12:56:47 GMT -5
The Wal-Marts here in upstate South Carolina have done the same thing. They've done away with the B41 B&W and Tri-X B&W. The drug stores and supermarkets around here have cut back well. This is bad news as the individual 24 exp. rolls are now $3.50 a pop.
Orlin in SC/USA
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Post by aceroadholder on Jan 14, 2008 1:23:23 GMT -5
Michael, if you need parts for the Velo let me know. My son's grandfather has several mid thirties 350's. He's been selling off bikes but keeps the Velo's as he does ride them a bit. He just sold his '37 250 Rudge Whitworth... I would have really liked to have bought it from him but really couldn't afford it... his stuff is all oily rag ridable.. he usually doesn't bother with restorations. His oldest bike was a 1914 Sears & Roebuck 1000cc Vee Twin. I rebuilt the hand oil pump for the total loss oiling system... he did have to do a lot of work on the machine as it had been in a fire a long time ago which burned up the tinware.
Orlin in South Carolina/USA
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Post by aceroadholder on Jan 10, 2008 0:40:58 GMT -5
Dan, Old motorcycles are just like old cameras... there are plenty that need good homes. I removed the rods from my '73 Norton's crankshaft this evening and was amazed to see that the rod bearings I installed 50,000 miles ago in 1984 looked like they only had 100 miles on them. My secret plan is to renew the bearings and rings ... then when it needs to be done again, I'll be dead and someone else will be stuck with fixing it! I just wish I was as good at fixing cameras as I am at fixing motorcycles... I'd go to school at age 60 to learn how to do a proper job... if there were someplace to go. I was visiting friends at Christmas and they marveled that I still used a film camera... welllll.. they said " here: do you want these, we don't".. so came home with a cardboard box with 5 Nikon lenses (they couldn't remember where the body was), a Rolleiflex 3.5e TLR with sheet film adapter, a functional Olympus Om77AF, and a 1936 Kodak Model 20 8mm camera (and the original projector that went with it)... I guess you are getting old when the stuff you could never afford as a young man is going to the church charity sale if you won't take it.
Orlin 'maybe I should go digital' in SC/USA..
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Post by aceroadholder on Feb 28, 2008 23:31:38 GMT -5
The news here in the US says Harry was outed by an Australian Magazine. Sorry about dragging all of you into Afghanistan....But you know America.. If we'd just have minded our own business, my grandfather and father wouldn't have had to have gone on the 1917 and 1943 'Visit England, then see France and die' tour. I missed out on England and France. All I got was the 'See what a wonderful job Europeans did in French Indo-China' tour... at least all the road signs were still in French, so it was a little bit of France after all.
Orlin in SC/USA
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Post by aceroadholder on Jan 17, 2008 23:47:09 GMT -5
Ouch! Isn't technology wonderful? Getting satisfaction when everyone else has your money is problematic. I don't think I will be buying anything from B&H any time soon. There is something to be said for buying from your local camera store.... not as cheap, but at least you would have a camera.
Orlin in SC/USA
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Post by aceroadholder on Jun 20, 2007 23:03:44 GMT -5
That F5 was $189 in '62.... about $1500/$2000 now...Makes it kinda hard to complain about the price of a good DSLR.
Orlin in SC/USA
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Post by aceroadholder on Jun 5, 2007 23:59:56 GMT -5
Must be a new gang at it. I got a very similar email just a few minutes ago... but this one was purporting to be from my mortgage company. They must have gotten into some data base that has some basic information about their targets.
Orlin in SC/USA
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Post by aceroadholder on Mar 13, 2007 22:05:49 GMT -5
Wayne, excellent picture.. the reflected light from the right illuminates her face (very cute too, by the way) giving good definition to her face without dark shadows.
Orlin in SC/USA
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Post by aceroadholder on Mar 13, 2007 21:54:39 GMT -5
I guess I'm getting old... but I can't get past the fact that digital cameras and especially DSLR's look like rejected Spartus designs. They are all pretty much butt ugly.... but I suppose we should be happy that they aren't made from Bakelite.... no, wait! Bakelite can be made in interesting colors instead of that dreary stove black plastic DSLR's use... and that would improve the looks way too much!!
Orlin in SC/USA
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