Didn't Know We Had One of These
Jun 29, 2015 15:22:29 #
Jun 29, 2015 15:36:01 #
jrh1354
Loc: Dayton, Ohio
rmalarz wrote:
http://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-camera-day-june-29/
--Bob
--Bob
Funny thing - they illustrated the announcement with a USSR Zenit camera (Industar 61 lens!).
Jun 29, 2015 15:56:19 #
Jun 30, 2015 20:33:19 #
Jun 30, 2015 20:53:09 #
rmalarz wrote:
http://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-camera-day-june-29/. --Bob
Bob, absolutely. It's my favorite holiday!!
I took my camera to the finest sushi restaurant in the area. I ordered my camera the finest caviar and sushimi in the house. You're not gonna believe this, but my camera just sat there and wouldn't touch it. Wouldn't even snap a pic or anything! NADA.....
So I gobbled the stuff up my self!!!
Can't wait to take my camera again next year!!! :lol: :lol:
SS
Jun 30, 2015 20:59:09 #
jrh1354 wrote:
Funny thing - they illustrated the announcement with a USSR Zenit camera (Industar 61 lens!).
I don't own an Industar-61, but it is considered to be a rather decent lens by most who have had experience with it.
Jun 30, 2015 21:08:21 #
rmalarz wrote:
http://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-camera-day-june-29/
--Bob
--Bob
How about a "my first serious camera" response?
Jun 30, 2015 21:26:22 #
jrh1354
Loc: Dayton, Ohio
Peterff wrote:
How about a "my first serious camera" response?
These were the cameras that got me started collecting classic cameras. This 1980 Moscow Olympics camera is in my collection - along with about 20 others the USSR designated to honor the Olympics (that the USA boycotted). Now that I'm retired, I'm going to do my best to run one roll of film through every one of these cameras.
Jun 30, 2015 21:30:20 #
jrh1354 wrote:
These were the cameras that got me started collecting classic cameras. This 1980 Moscow Olympics camera is in my collection - along with about 20 others the USSR designated to honor the Olympics (that the USA boycotted). Now that I'm retired, I'm going to do my best to run one roll of film through every one of these cameras.
This is actually a replacement body that I bought on ebay. My original came from around 1971, and the silvering on the pentaprism went bad, but it had a nostalgia value for me, so I got the replacement. The lens is my original one...
Nice description I just found via Google:
"As for Zenit: typical Russian build quality, appeared to have been hammered out of a sheet of tank armour using no tool more sophisticated than a 20 lb sledgehammer. A modern version needs to be rather less agricultural in its appearance, and rather more reliable in its operation."
By the time this Olympic model was produced I already had my Canon AE-1 with four years under its belt...
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