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<p>Thanks for the thread. I was never seduced by Olympus. However I almost bought an XA-1. I recall dimly the controls were very small and my mits aare not. Made me hesitate. Thanks for the reminder.</p>

I admired Al greatly. I am one who bought the tshirt with his image. I still wear it now and then. When I posted a couple

photos when I first began using my Leica IIIf, he was kind and supportive. Thanks for y our post with this information.

I admire your photos. Not sure about your judgement. Glad they didn't knock you down and depart with your Leica.

Applause to your bravery.

Interesting. I read the Nikon link. Very interesting. Thanks.

Great photos all.

Very fine, informative thread.

<p>am i silly to sasy use dx camera and wide angle lens and use software to correct shift tilt?</p>

 

<p>used one, very handy</p>

 

<p>what a nice thread.</p>

Take your best gear, you will get better photographs.

 

The last time I ever seriously debated this was back in the end of film days and a trip to London, England. Took my best

slr.

 

Time I didn't take my best gear and regretted it. A trip to Arizona where I went to an Anazazi archaeological ruin and an

1880s US ARMY post. I still kick myself about that chouce.

 

Have a great trip.

<p>switch mode to P and try to close it. remove andreinsert battery. two thingsto try.</p>

 

<p>great pix, looks like you have a good shooter in the Lord</p>

<p>i have shot the ltm jupiter 9 and it is good lens.</p>

<p>well, not Canon, but I would recommend for a trip the relatively compact, Sony Nex F3 with the 18-55 lens and the 55-200. I was quite pleased to find how good the images are. The one function it took me a short while to figure out was the sunny weather setting for the display which works incredibly well in bright sunlight ot make the screen easy to use. I have added some inexpenive lens adapters to reuse some old film lenses and that also works very well, with the zoom to focus manually the old lenses. I am leaving my DSLR at home and toting the F3 daily.</p>

<p>Coldwater Canadiana Museum, Coldwater, Ontario, Canada - Sony NEX F3 with kit 18-55</p><div></div>

<p>enjoyed this, thanks for posting, the "sea monster" in the bath tub made me laugh out loud</p>

<p>best viewfinder in a SLR I ever encountered, Nikon F801S</p>

<p><img src="http://wjjgibson.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/balda-baldinette-triplet-1000-pixels.jpg?w=640" alt="" width="640" height="165" />pictures of the Baldinette</p>

<p>thanks for the help, much appreciated..... in the next month or so I will probably have a few more questions to post on this little id project. thanks again.</p>

<p>here is the unknown to me model from Eastman Kodak</p><div></div>

<p>I got a chance today to begin going through four boxes of cameras, the personal collection of professional photographer Budd Watson, son of Lorne Watson. These two did a lot of pioneering work in mural sized photographic printing. Budd sold a lot of mural sized landscape photos of Canada's natural beauty to corporate offices.<br>

The collection has a range of Kodak cameras from the 20s to 60s, some consumer family cameras, some more high end. also a group of Polaroid models, a few movie cameras. I am just digging in on this project.<br>

Today I have one question. see the large folding camera below. I need help identifying this specific model and the fim it used.<br>

I am posting two photos here from box 1. one is a Kodak Duaflex III a 620 fim camera, the other is a Eastman Kodak camera that has very little model information on it. </p><div></div>

<p>Leitz plant in Midland, Ontario, (where I am sitting as I type this), started in 53o r was it 54, they assembled M4-P bodies. The company is still here called ELCAN, as in Ernest Leitz Canada. They started work temporarily housed in the curling rink on King Street.</p>

<p>solid points Arthur, but we should refocus on things Leica....<br>

some details of loading the IIIF, particularly the trimming of the film leader<br>

<img src="../photo/15978512" alt="" /></p><div></div>

<p>thanks for your reply, <br>

there were a lot of attitudes at the time of the War of 1812 that seem to have fallen out of the school texts<br>

there were a lot of Americans in Canada then, and which side they favoured was an open question. <br>

there was a recent article in the Globe and Mail which goes into detail about worries about divided loyalties at the time of the war, and then goes on to describe immigration policies that were undertaken to keep the demon Yanks numbers down, see article here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/my-ancestors-and-the-worst-thing-that-has-ever-happened-to-this-country/article4285769/</p>

<p>the link is at the top of the post here, see (link)</p>

<p>or this: http://gnawledgewurker.wordpress.com/2012/06/24/old-photographic-adventure-leica-iiif-35mm-film-rangefinder-camera/</p>

<p>or did you mean the links over on my blog? checked those and they seem to work ok.<br>

thanks for the reply, Jerry</p>