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Post by Randy on Apr 29, 2007 21:25:50 GMT -5
Amen Brother....
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Post by Peter S. on Apr 30, 2007 5:06:25 GMT -5
The powers that be have chosen, to ask for M42 for the annual photo contest - they seem to react on excessive Minolta-talk here P
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Post by Randy on Apr 30, 2007 6:52:55 GMT -5
You don't have to use a M42 Screwmount camera, it was just an idea for a theme. That type of camera was so prevalent that it seemed to me almost every camera collector would have at least one camera with that Lens Mount. Minolta cameras are my main interest, but I have about 20 M42 mount SLRs also.
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Post by doubs43 on Apr 30, 2007 11:02:32 GMT -5
You don't have to use a M42 Screwmount camera, it was just an idea for a theme. That type of camera was so prevalent that it seemed to me almost every camera collector would have at least one camera with that Lens Mount. Minolta cameras are my main interest, but I have about 20 M42 mount SLRs also. So then you really do have the best, don't you? Just teasing. "Best" is so subjective that there's really no way to determine which brand or model qualifies except on an individual basis. The apex of M42 cameras is likely the Pentax Spotmatic and the Super-Takumar / SMC Takumar lenses are as good as it gets IMO. Having said that, a Ricoh Singlex II is rapidly becoming my favorite M42 mount camera. Negatives from it are very consistent when using the internal meter. Walker
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Post by larrylmedina on May 14, 2007 1:58:29 GMT -5
Aloha Everyone~
I think at this point of my collecting phase, I'm more enthralled by the quality of photos that come out a camera, than favoring a particular brand. I like the immediacy that my Yashica rangefinders convey; I like the relief I experience when I see all the good prints out of my Argus C3 (only because it's such a bear to take photos with one!); I like the surreal quality of Polaroid packfilm prints. I haven't been collecting and using cameras for long at all (10 years), but I'll share a couple favorites from my limited collection:
I own a single Olympus camera, the OM-1n, and my favorite lens is the Zuiko 28mm Auto-W lens, which is spooky sharp, especially when I'm shooting with 100 ASA film. In fact, ALL of Olympus' lenses are spooky sharp! I like the OM-1n for it's metered manual operation. What I don't like is its small size, which is a little uncomfortable to hold even in my small Asian hands.
I like the Minolta cameras for their lenses which, coupled to their CLC exposure system, renders really sharp, well-exposed photos edge-to-edge which I am always impressed with every time I get prints back from the local lab. Two of my Minolta favorites are the SR-T 303b and the Hi-Matic 11 (I also run film thru a Minolta 126 camera (Autopak 700) and although I've heard some derogatory things about the 126 cartridge format, the Autopak 700 seems to do 126 fair justice). Back to the SR-T: I like its weight, feels as dense as iron - and I know that if I'm in an unfamiliar locale and someone tries to mug me, I can kill him with a good swing of my Minolta.
I guess it would be the Minoltas which I favor now - 110 and 126, to their 35mm rangefinders and SLR's. They're solidly well-made, easy enough to figure out, and THEY WORK. Heck, I even have a Minolta point-and-shoot!
//Larry =)
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Post by olroy2044 on Jul 8, 2007 14:12:53 GMT -5
When I was a kid, just wanting to start taking pictures, I went into a camera shop in San Jose, Ca with my first ever IRS refund check (all of $65.00) and told the nice man I wanted the best 35mm camera I could get for that amount of money. I thought I wanted a Minolta automatic something- or- other (don't remember now what it was--back in the dark ages dontcha know :-) ) He pointed me to a like new Contaflex II. I have been forever grateful to that man because that camera taught me to be a photographer, not a snapper. That camera is still in my family, 40 plus yrs later. My son's widow has it now, and it is still soldiering on. Shot airshows with that camera using the 8x monocular screwed into the filter ring. You haven't lived until you have tried to track a P-51 moving at about the speed of light in a low pass with an f16 monocular! Got a Mamiya 1000DTL. Through the lens metering? Interchangeble lenses? I was in heaven! Used that camera for years-rebuilt twice, finally gave it up when the tech told me he could no longer fix it. At the time, I was the crime scene photog for the small PD where I was working, because no-one else could figure out how to use the sheet-film Graflex that had been given to the dept. by the Feds. I wound up using the Mamiya bacause I could carry all the goodies by myself instead of needing help with the steamer trunk full of stuff for the Graflex! After the Mamiya finally died for good, I bought a Pentax ME on sale, and an M42-K adapter ring and now own several k-mount Pentaxes, a Spot F, other K-mount bodies, the diminutive Pentax auto 110, a Rollei 35s, and what has become my favorite shooter of all time, a mint SRT202 given to me by a friend. That seems to be the camera I reach for when I am serious about what I'm shooting. Don't really know why, except that it's the one that feels "right." I use all my superb M-42 glass on it via adapter rings. and the manual meter system hasn't failed me yet. I think of myself as a user rather than a collector, but then my wife asks me why I have all these cameras if I'm not collecting them? O-o-o-ps. :-) Roy
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Post by Randy on Jul 8, 2007 14:46:51 GMT -5
Oh Oh..another member with Minolta fingers. LOL! Welcome to the Camera Collector Roy!
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Post by PeterW on Jul 8, 2007 15:25:40 GMT -5
Hi Roy, and welcome to the addicts club. If I were you I'd tell your wife that you think she was right after all - you are a collector. She can't very well say much about being right! . PeterW
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Post by herron on Jul 8, 2007 20:42:41 GMT -5
Roy: Welcome to the Camera Collector. Shame you don't still have that Mamiya...neat cameras, if I do say so myself... and they can be fixed......
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Post by pancake on Oct 3, 2007 16:54:38 GMT -5
Wow, reading this thread is like reading a chapter out of history book. The interesting kind, not the boring ones Olympus for me. Olympus OM's specifically. Why Olympus? because it is one of the old camera makers who survived, plus they have a tendency to do things contrarily and be successful at them. That and I've never seen any other camera in the same vintage as the OM's that has that same brightness and minimalism in their viewfinder. It always bring a smile to my face when I peered through and get ready to take the picture. And also the Olympus Pen FT. Now that's a handsome camera. And also the rangefinders... I have about 20 of them now. All of them working smoothly and produces excellent pictures.
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Post by herron on Oct 3, 2007 19:38:09 GMT -5
Will -- that Olympus-Pen F is a handsome little camera! Makes me wonder if there's one listed on evilBay.................
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Post by camerastoomany on Oct 3, 2007 22:12:52 GMT -5
Seeing the photo of the Pen F reminds that I want one, I haven't got one and I really have to have one. There was a listing on Ebay very very recently but as usual the price was too rich for my blood. I've still gotta have one ........ oh dear!
In regards this thread, its Minolta for me. A sentimental favourite, I guess, since it was my first system brand. I bought a Minolta 7000, 50mm 1.7, 35-105mm and Program 2800 AF flash about a month ago. AUD$72.00 on Ebay Australia. What a fantastic camera.
Having named Minolta, I must admit it is difficult not to mention my other favourite system: my extensive collection of Fujicanica. Then there's the system which is almost as well-rounded, the Pennikiya Yashicoh ........... Sigh!
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Post by pancake on Oct 4, 2007 13:25:13 GMT -5
Ron, go for the black one... it's delicious Geoff, I also am a fan of Konica's Hexanon lenses (too bad their camera bodies are nothing to write home about). And lately, I am smitten by Contax' RTS series of cameras. Sleek, they are
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Post by herron on Oct 4, 2007 14:47:15 GMT -5
Wow! IT IS! My Mamiya's are going to be jealous...............
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Post by GeneW on Oct 4, 2007 18:40:06 GMT -5
pancake, in all my time as a photographer, I've never lusted after a Pen F. Until now!
Gene
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