"Venerable" Cameras
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PeriFromIL wrote:
I would like to add my Pentax-K1000 to the list.
With the added benefit thatt he k-1000 is virtually indestructible.
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Jun 18, 2017 05:42:43 #
PeriFromIL wrote:
I would like to add my Pentax-K1000 to the list.
Yes, K1000. Hope you have a Japanese one and not a Chinese Assembled one. From what I can tell and see the newer ones are not as well made. At one time I owned a Pentax K1000SE (nicer than the regular model), but it was stolen from me in 1987. I have a K1000 as a replacement. Not that I actually use it today but the mirroring on the pentaprism is desilvering on its own, soon to be junk. I also have Pentax K2 DMD body if I ever really wanted to shoot film again.
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Jun 18, 2017 06:11:46 #
WillieWisconsin wrote:
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The reviewer is allowed to use almost any word he wants. I see nothing venerable about a camera that's a few years old. Was it venerable before its replacement was introduced. When did it become venerable. It's just a previous camera model.
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WillieWisconsin wrote:
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I bought a Nikon F-2 back in 1977 and used it until I gave it to my daughter on "permanent loan". She uses it today for B&W. She does her own processing. That's pretty venerable.
Jun 18, 2017 06:28:02 #
Pablo8
Loc: Nottingham UK.
Akronrog wrote:
What about the Argus C3?
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You just beat me to it..My very first 35mm camera, before 1959, when I got the Nikon F.
Jun 18, 2017 06:28:56 #
YES! I believe it was affectionately called "The Brick" (about the size and shape of a brick). My dad took hundreds of slides using this, and I continued using it until I ruined it at Niagra Falls. I found another one on eBay and should find it and shoot a roll. With 25 speed film this camera took very nice pictures of western landscape.
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