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Post by barbarian on Aug 15, 2012 21:11:21 GMT -5
 1.5 Nokton. Really nice lens, which I found (with lens caps thankfully) in the "junk drawer" of a pawn shop. I traded for the camera to use the lens.
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Post by col on Aug 15, 2012 21:52:36 GMT -5
That camera looks very nice
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Post by hansz on Aug 16, 2012 4:42:35 GMT -5
Oh boy, you called it a 'junk drawer'  ? The Prominent comes close to a Contax, and the 1,5 Nokton is famous! |
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Post by nikonbob on Aug 16, 2012 5:54:55 GMT -5
Now that is some junk drawer. Congratulations on a very nice find.
Bob
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 16, 2012 8:52:21 GMT -5
I must check my junk drawer. You find gems. I fear all I will find is junk. Hey! Look at that! A hand operated can opener!!! A box of wooden toothpicks! A --- aah --- ooh yuk. Phooey! Mickey  |
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Post by barbarian on Aug 16, 2012 10:17:07 GMT -5
The camera is very well built, but odd. A knob on the top left focuses by moving the focal plane. A little clunky to use, but it does take good shots.
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Post by grenouille on Aug 17, 2012 5:54:34 GMT -5
Happy shooting and d'ont spare the rolls, Regards
Hye
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 17, 2012 22:33:32 GMT -5
The camera is very well built, but odd. A knob on the top left focuses by moving the focal plane. A little clunky to use, but it does take good shots. That feature must surely make it possible to produce lenses for less as no focusing mechanism is required for each lens. One would, I imagine, quickly grow accustomed to that feature. The beautiful Vitessa L has a similar feature. I think it simplifies focusing and aids in steadying the camera as both hands can be kept on the camera's body which, except for long, heavy lenses is preferable. Mickey It is a most camera like looking camera. Mickey |
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Post by barbarian on Aug 18, 2012 0:50:29 GMT -5
Yes, it looks really "camera-like." All that beautiful design and fine engraving, and so on. The Exakta Varex models have a similar business-like appearance.
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 18, 2012 8:03:15 GMT -5
Yes, it looks really "camera-like." All that beautiful design and fine engraving, and so on. The Exakta Varex models have a similar business-like appearance. I do agree except that the Exaktas although very functional and versatile are ugly. But I think they are still the apex of manual SLR's. The Voigtlander is, to my mind, masculine therefore very handsome. I don't know much about it but would love to get one in my hands and put it through its paces. Mickey |
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Post by hansz on Aug 18, 2012 9:02:53 GMT -5
There are some in this valley-of-tears who think otherwise:-)  IMG_0966 by hanszeiss, on Flickr Hm, besides an over-engineered piece of equipment it urges to exercise yourself daily to lug it around... But it feels great!! (and better than an Exakta, IMHO) Hans |
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 18, 2012 14:05:51 GMT -5
Hans,
The Zeiss Contarex "Bullseye" had a coupled exposure meter so, strictly speaking, it was not completely manual.
I know. I am splitting hairs.
"... But it feels great!!" It also looks great!
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Post by hansz on Aug 18, 2012 14:29:33 GMT -5
Guess you're right, Mickey, certainly in the days it was young...
Today I treat most cameras from the late 40s to early 70s as manual.
Thinking it over, I dislike automation in a camera, except if the family wants to have their fair share of shots... Then a digital EOS is my life-line.
Hans
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Post by daveh on Aug 18, 2012 18:06:49 GMT -5
Manual cameras? Surely only the old-old cameras were truly manual. You know, those that the photographer took the lens cap off, counted to five and put it back on again. Then he, or she, removed the film plate and replaced it with another (in the darkroom of course). Everything else is automation of some sort.  |
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 18, 2012 21:16:51 GMT -5
Dave, "...Everything else is automation of some sort. :
How far back must we go, Dave? The original camera was a darkened room with a hole in the wall. No film. Just some charcoal and paper. Vermeer, it is claimed, used just such a camera to obtain perfect perspective in his paintings. Poor guy. His house must have been drafty (draughty?). I would hate to lose the portability such a camera would impose. I don't think they had nice comfortable, stretchy Op-Tech neck straps in those days. Even my K-5 is starting to get heavier. Mickey |
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