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Post by keith201 on Mar 21, 2012 0:05:46 GMT -5
If the English language is used correctly, it is capable of more delicate nuances of meaning than any other. Unfortunately, they don't seem to teach grammar any more do they?
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Post by keith201 on Mar 21, 2012 0:01:41 GMT -5
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Post by keith201 on Mar 20, 2012 23:53:49 GMT -5
It was I thik, Karsh who said that the problem with photographing beautiful women is that when you get into the dark room, they've gone home!
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Post by keith201 on Mar 20, 2012 22:37:49 GMT -5
y first 35mm camera was a Voigtlander Vito II I was doing a lot of climbing and tramping and traded my Bessa II 120 rollfilm camera for the 35mm to save space and weight
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Post by keith201 on Mar 20, 2012 20:03:12 GMT -5
I have a Braun Super Paxette, S/N 258435, the one with the coupled rangefinder, Prontor SVS shutter and interchangeable lenses. THe shutter is stuck solid, the film advance mechanism is locked up too. Has anyone any ideas?
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Post by keith201 on Mar 20, 2012 19:46:44 GMT -5
THe road into our Craters of the Moon thermal area is open now after 30 trees were removed, The road is still very rough though. The access to Huka Falls is closed with fallen trees, that should reopen before very long I expect.
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G'day
Mar 20, 2012 18:48:50 GMT -5
Post by keith201 on Mar 20, 2012 18:48:50 GMT -5
I have prices for most of my kodaks from various places on the Net, I am still wanting the price for a 1957 Kodak Brownie Flash II box camera and the 1958 Retinette 022. I'm not sure about the cost of the Brownie Pliant six-20 folder from 1936 or 1939, depends who you believe. The $40 I came across seems high for what it is
It's good to find a familiar face on here Chris, you may have pushed the cost of the Retina up a bit but it's a beautiful little camera, when I compare it with my Retinette 017, the Retina is like a jewel in comparison!
Now I suppose I really should get back to taking some photos, Taupo Camera Club has Macro as this month's subject and I'm still waiting for the insurance to come up with a replacement macro lens for the old Sigma I had which fell on the floor and didn't bounce. Fortunately my camera body survived undamaged, the lens took the shock and the aperture blades all came adrift.
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G'day
Mar 19, 2012 23:05:02 GMT -5
Post by keith201 on Mar 19, 2012 23:05:02 GMT -5
I'm trying to find the original cost price of my cameras, I have most of the Kodaks priced after a lot of searching on the Net. It's difficult to get much information on the others though. I would certainly appreciate anything anyone can tell me, not only about the prices but anything else, the more information I can find, the better!
I;ve updated my list with what I've found so far.
This collecting bug sort of creaped up on me and bit me on the bum!
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G'day
Mar 19, 2012 17:06:56 GMT -5
Post by keith201 on Mar 19, 2012 17:06:56 GMT -5
I began by trying to replace the various cameras I've used during my lif. but decided to expand it to be a collection covering the various periods and styles. I'm still looking for my first two, a Voigtlander Bessa II with a coupled rangefinder. When they are available, they are too pricey for me, also my 2nd camera, a Voigtlander Vito IIa, a 35mm folder. The nearest I have is the Retinette 017 which preceded it. I also have the Retina IIc on its way, I should receive it later this week. Most of the cameras I own have a story to tell, the Sony a350 is my current 'working' camera, my son Cameron who lives with me uses the Nikon P80. He only ever uses it on Auto, ne's a computer wizz and not that interested in photography. However he lent it to Mei, a Maori girl and one of my best mates to take on a trip to the South Island. She sat on it and cracked the rear LCD screen so it's away being repaired.
I am short so far of an APS film camera and my collection will be just about complete. But . . . there's always something interesting just round the corner, isn't there?
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Post by keith201 on Mar 19, 2012 14:48:58 GMT -5
It's Tuesday morning here and I was getting ready to go to work. I work in the kiosk at The Craters of the Moon, a thermal area about 5km (3 miles) north if Taupo. Just had a phone call, there are several trees down across the access road which will take some time to clear so I have the morning off. It's been a wild and windy night, several roads are closed in the central North Island with fallen trees and/or flooding. The power has been off during the night, my UPS has gone flat although it's charging up again now the power is back on. And the Met people say it could stay around for a day or two yet.
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Post by keith201 on Mar 19, 2012 3:45:33 GMT -5
In this neck of the woods we have had the worst summer for years. The South Island had all the good weather, here in the North Island, the La Nina weather pattern brought a lot of wet weather down from the tropics. Here we are in our autumn (fall for you Yanks) we have wet wild weather all weekend, The main road from Bay of Plenty to Povery Bay through the Waioeka Gorge is closed by slips and it's a 3 hour drive round the coast. The Manawatu Gorge (the river is the only other apart from the Brahmaputra/Ganges to cut through a mountain range) is closed until at least the middle of the year with an enormous slip, We are having heavy gales and some places are expecting 7 to 8 inches of rain overnight with 1 to 1,1/4 inches an hour at times. Is the World Series baseball or American football? That seems to me to be all body armour and committee meetings! I prefer Rugby myself. At least in that you really do have to touch the ball down for a try. Just getting to the line isn't good enough, and you can't pass the ball forward.
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Post by keith201 on Mar 18, 2012 23:55:45 GMT -5
One of the best sites I have come across is www.cambridgeincolour.com It has a gallery of lowlight photography that blew me away and the tutorials are the best I've seen.
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Post by keith201 on Mar 18, 2012 23:50:28 GMT -5
Nikon and Sony use identical APS-C sensors, 23.6x15.8mm, the 'crop factor' is 1.5 so a 18mm - 70mm kit zoom will have the same field of view as a 27mm - 105mm lens on a 35mm camera. Canon sensors are very slightly smaller, their crop factor is 1.6. The focal length remains the same, it is just that the image is cropped smaller on APS-C compared with the 35mm so it seems more telephoto.
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Post by keith201 on Mar 18, 2012 23:34:28 GMT -5
The first camera I bought for myself was a Voigtlander Bessa II, a 120 folder with a coupled rangefinder which cost me GBP25 in 1952. I was doing a lot of mountaineering and climbing in those days and traded it for a Voigtlander Vito IIa, a 35mm folder similar to the folding Kodak Retinas. I did that for a smaller camera with 36 exposure cassettes instead of bulky 12 exposure rollfilm
I've been looking for a good Vito folder but the nearest so far is the Retina IIc which has a coupled rangefinder. I eventually swapped the Vito for a Braun Paxette with an extinction light meter and I have been able to replace that for my collection
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Post by keith201 on Mar 18, 2012 23:21:36 GMT -5
And what eventually killed Minolta which was the first company to market a really good combined autofocus and automatic film advance with the Maxxum/Dynax 7000 was the fine of $127million for infringing Honeywell patents. The 7000i was the 2nd generation and is still one of the best even after 24 years! They sold their technology to Sony who are still in the forefront of cmaera design with their SLTs I have a Sony a350, supposedly an 'entry-level' camera, the only 'problem' is that the optical viewfinder feels a bit constricted. I don't know what the latest EVFs are really like, my son has a Nikon P80 with a 230K dot EVF which I find too coarse an image for any fine detailed images
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