Together for 50 Years
Dec 26, 2021 11:52:30 #
Dec 26, 2021 12:27:19 #
Farm Boy
Loc: Mendota Illinois
Nice to see you still have it, I still have my Minolta 101 been a while since I used it, last year i shot roll of film just to show my son how we used to do it.
Dec 26, 2021 12:51:25 #
Farm Boy wrote:
Nice to see you still have it, I still have my Minolta 101 been a while since I used it, last year i shot roll of film just to show my son how we used to do it.
Farm Boy, I haven't had a 35mm film camera for a long time, and mostly use a Canon T4i digital descendant of the Rebel series (which started as a film camera). Thinking I would like full frame, I looked around at more recent models, but instead I just bought a Rebel film camera, which is full frame and uses current EF Canon lenses from my T4i. So if I really want the full frame for something, I can use that, with film. What shocked me most was that the camera and lens on the old Rebel (which was $20 on eBay), is practically weightless, about like lifting a pencil. No full frame digital is anything like that. The Canon lenses over 100mm will all fit both EF and EFS mount cameras--long lenses naturally have large image circles that cover full frame. For wide angle, the film camera needs an EF lens.
Dec 26, 2021 13:08:41 #
rmalarz wrote:
Since Christmas Eve 1971
--Bob
--Bob
I bought the same camera in 1971 also. It’s still in good working condition.
Dec 26, 2021 13:22:49 #
JFCoupe
Loc: Kent, Washington
The gold standard of 35 mm SLRs for many years. I love the wore through brass trim.
Dec 26, 2021 13:27:04 #
rmalarz wrote:
Let us all take a bow to Nikon's Battleship. Since Christmas Eve 1971
--Bob
--Bob
Your scarred and beaten, but victorious and trusted old friend is still pulling its weight.
This is from a time when things were built to last.
You worked your way up to the best hardware you could get and then all you ever had to play with was film.
Your hardware became your standard and you always knew you could depend on it.
I shot Canon. Had the original F1 and then the new F1.
These, like your Nikon, were built like a tank. They will probably still be functioning when we are both no longer here.
The new generation will look at this and say, "Look, an old beat up camera, what a piece of junk!"
For us old guys, I would say, "Let's set it on the table, get a cup of coffee, stare at it and think of all the stories it could tell."
Dare someone to ask its shutter count!
Dec 26, 2021 13:44:40 #
Ahhh- what a sweetheart of camera. Interesting fact - I would give my back teeth for a "screw-on" soft release button. I have a Z-6 and I miss more shots being unable to find the release button. Sometimes I even accidentally shut the camera off while sliding my finger around looking for the ridiculously smooth and flat button. I tried the adhesive button attachment available from B&H - but it fell off during handling. Also scares me getting adhesive into the mechanism.
But photo life goes on...
By the way - I still have one of those. Tried to sell it a few years ago and all I got was: "Do you have one with less scratches?" "Do you still have the box?" "How about the instruction manual?" ...and etc...
But photo life goes on...
By the way - I still have one of those. Tried to sell it a few years ago and all I got was: "Do you have one with less scratches?" "Do you still have the box?" "How about the instruction manual?" ...and etc...
Dec 26, 2021 14:00:49 #
Again, thanks for the visits to those who stopped by after my previous acknowledgement.
—Bob
—Bob
Dec 26, 2021 14:17:36 #
[quote=rmalarz]Since Christmas Eve 1971
--Bob[
It was and remains such a beautiful piece of work. Mine was also a Christmas present, 1970, /quote]https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-16222-3.html
Thanks for the memories Bob! I shot a role through mine last month. Don't you wish you were the person that put that shutter release button extension on the market? We all had one.
--Bob[
It was and remains such a beautiful piece of work. Mine was also a Christmas present, 1970, /quote]https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-16222-3.html
Thanks for the memories Bob! I shot a role through mine last month. Don't you wish you were the person that put that shutter release button extension on the market? We all had one.
Dec 26, 2021 14:29:59 #
Dec 26, 2021 14:34:07 #
mrmudshark
Loc: south central illinois
I have several of those in black with penta-prisms...much brassing...never failed...visited the Nikon folks every year for servicing in Asia.
By the way.......how many mega pixels is the model shown...?
By the way.......how many mega pixels is the model shown...?
Dec 26, 2021 14:39:32 #
mrmudshark
Loc: south central illinois
I remember when Nikon changed the film advance lever...it was just metal with serrations. I had a serious callous on my right thumb. Then one year they came out with a lever that had a black plastic cover over the serrations...I had them installed on all four cameras...it was my own little chunk of Heaven........
Dec 26, 2021 15:26:49 #
rmalarz wrote:
Since Christmas Eve 1971
--Bob
--Bob
Looks like you have both aged well together, like old friends. Merry Christmas Bob!
Dec 26, 2021 16:14:45 #
rmalarz wrote:
Since Christmas Eve 1971
--Bob
--Bob
Oh! This picture awakes a lot of very old souvenirs...my first camera was looking like this one, except its "Photomic Sucher" looked a little bit different than this one (a touch not as vintage). You done well to keep it; now this old camera became really a collector! I hope it is still working, is'nt it?
Dec 26, 2021 16:35:08 #
AirWalter
Loc: Tipp City, Ohio
rmalarz wrote:
Since Christmas Eve 1971
--Bob
--Bob
Nothing like a loyal good friend. Merry Christmas and a Happy and safe New Years.
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