BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

A puerile comment. But, I won't argue with a fool. He will only drag me down to his level.

BTW, did you mean "off topic"?

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

You have my sympathy - and my admiration! And Jitb probably will.

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

I started thinking about my opinions of several of the myriad of cameras I've owned. Although, I thought (and still think) it was an excellent camera, the Mamiya RB67 was one of the most frustrating cameras I ever owned; I took more unintentional multiple exposure pictures than any other camera I've ever had. Fortunately the RZ67 solved the film advance problem I had with the RB.

Jackinthebox Loc: travel the world

jethro779 wrote:
Actually Jackass my wife died in childbirth and I raised my daughter and you may go straight to Hell!




You may both go strait to hell as well. Uptight bozos :mrgreen: Your comments belong in the attic.

James Slick Loc: Pittsburgh,PA

jackinthebox seems obsessed with drugs and alcohol, perhaps that indicates something.

Jackinthebox Loc: travel the world

Hi Slick.

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." Hunter Thompson

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

Let me put this as simply as possible, in words you can understand:

You are a pompous self righteous jerk! But you are correct; your vitriol (and probably our responses) belong in the attic. May I remind you however that this entire misuse of a good topic began with your snide remarks about the personal behavior of a member of this forum, specifically your accusation concerning the use of alcohol and drugs. After a comment that caused another member emotional pain, you were unable to summon anything beyond the most basic (and, I suspect, insincere) responses.

As for your first sentence, I have no doubt that, but for the grace of God, I am destined to such a fate; I'll see you there.

BTW, the word is "straight"......

Jackinthebox Loc: travel the world

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Let me put this as simply as possible, in words you can understand:

You are a pompous self righteous jerk! And your responses belong in the attic. You sound as insincere as it gets. You love to bear down on someone so go ahead but remember, the attic.

R'laine Loc: Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

I'm with Banjonut - worst camera I ever had was the Kodak Disc camera, hands down.

jkm757 Loc: San Diego, Ca.

My second DSLR, D5000, is my most hated camera. Way to much noise above 800 ISO and to many adjustments had to be done through menus.

Paul J. Svetlik Loc: Colorado

Thank you Norman for the interesting look back! The camera name brought up a lot of memories!
Practica FX was also my first SLR camera I bought in the mid Fifties. It looked different, attractive and was a pretty revolutionary, affordable SLR camera design, with Tesar, f 2.8 lens - comparing with my pre-war Voightlander 6x6 format camera.
The manufacturer the Kamera Werke (KW) Dresden after the war brought up the revived pre-war SLR design (with Pentacon and Exakta Varex) and the cameras were an immediate success!
I enjoyed Practica FX for several years and only sometimes later was debating whether to buy - that time the most famous Exacta Varex camera or Praktina IIa. Praktina IIa for its highly efficient modern design was my choice.
I still own two bodies in good working condition resting with several lenses in my small photographic museum. Both cameras Practica and the two Praktinas IIa (with Flexon f 50mm 2.0 lens) worked fine for all those years getting through hundreds of Kodachrome 25 and Ilford TriX rolls without any problem.
I used both Praktinas until the Seventies when I switched to Canon F1 SLR cameras and larger formats - but that would be another story.
Cheers!

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

I didn't start this, but in the interests of the thread, the forum and my own limits of tolerance, I'll end it right now. Have a nice day - and I do mean that!

UNWATCH!

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Sounds like you are waxing nostalgic, as I sometimes do.
So did you like it or hate it?
I remember looking at ads in Popular or Modern Photography magazines back in the late '60's for the Practina cameras before I bought my first SLR, which I think was a Topcon Unirex.

NormanHarley Loc: Colorado

Thank you for that history, Paul! I love learning more about our hobby and how it evolved. In retrospect, I now think that I must have gotten one of the very few lemon Praktica SLR's, everyone else seemed to have had good experiences with them. Every roll of film I tried was a loss, and when the man at the camera store put the shutter speed at 1/30 with the back open, clicked the shutter, and it remained open for around a half second, they immediately refunded my money. I have never had another camera now other than Nikon. I am a little envious of others that have had so many different brands to explore. But I am very happy with my Nikon. ;-)