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Good to see some Ricoh images, Cory. During the peak of production Ricoh offered a good feature set for the money on several models. The KR-5 Super II I think was actually made by Cosina, but it was well made for a budget camera. It was a lower cost alternative to the Pentax K1000 for photography classes. The Cosina made 35-70 f 3.5-4.8 was often sold as a kit lens labeled under the brand of camera it was sold with. Actually a pretty decent performer.
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Robert, that is a very interesting photo. Without the two people off to the right to give it perspective, It looks like a path next to a four foot high wall. One would think that the stone in the foreground would be the right size for a stroller to sit upon. Or, is the perspective thrown off by the two people being much, much further off than appears in the photo?
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Robert, that is a very interesting photo. Without the two people off to the right to give it perspective, It looks like a path next to a four foot high wall. One would think that the stone in the foreground would be the right size for a stroller to sit upon. Or, is the perspective thrown off by the two people being much, much further off than appears in the photo?

Yeh, where is that? Those stone blocks on the LHS look like they’ve been cut so you can’t get a fag paper between them?!

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Good to see some Ricoh images, Cory. During the peak of production Ricoh offered a good feature set for the money on several models. The KR-5 Super II I think was actually made by Cosina, but it was well made for a budget camera. It was a lower cost alternative to the Pentax K1000 for photography classes. The Cosina made 35-70 f 3.5-4.8 was often sold as a kit lens labeled under the brand of camera it was sold with. Actually a pretty decent performer.

 

Thanks Mike. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the images I got from the Ricoh. I've got a Sears KS500, which I believe is also made by Ricoh, that's now in the queue to be taken out for a spin.

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