markplawchan

Just learn one lens at at time..it doesn't make any difference which one you start with. After 31 years, I feel that I'm close to feeling good about a short zoom...

that the cheapest, oldest camera in your hand will take superior

photos to the $9,000. outfit in your closet?

re; polarizer removal, I have no idea--however the TSA lock was also missing when I reached my destination...the body cap was off the camera body and the mirrors marred inside--but nothing was missing.(except the lock).

I kinda think I'll be trying to bill the TSA...

I bought a Rolleiflex lens hood for my Yashicamat (Bay 1)...then had to buy two Rolleiflex cameras to go with it...

...Canon EF 100mm f/2.0 lens be rethreaded or repaired after having

a TSA inspector "cross thread" a polarizer back on? Both lens

threads and polarizer seem to be badly stripped.....

Last Monday I checked a Pelican case (filled with photo gear)into

checked luggage at the Boise ID airport--with a TSA lock on the

case.

When I arrive in Reno NV, I found a) the TSA lock missing, b)my EOS3

body with the body cap removed-mirror marred in two places and

filled with particulate matter from the foam liner and c) a 100mm

f/2 lens with the polarizer "cross threaded" so badly I was forced

to buy a set of filter wrenches in Grants Pass OR to remove it--both

the polarizer and the lens threads seem to be "stripped"....rather

badly.

 

Now, what is my recourse?

I dunno...<div></div>

More color..<div></div>

More like "perspiring"....

Yep--Desert Botannical Gardens it is....and yes it was.

Took a short walk...<div></div>

Then some B & W...<div></div>

Yes.it was hot.<div></div>

I guess you could make it into a 'pin-hole".....

Mailed Arizona's negs to C.E. today..I'm hoping he can convert the "ugly" into merely "bad" and the "bad" into acceptable.....

I think it may have something to do with a natural human rebellion, (either conscious or unconscious), against the increasing depersonalization and acceleration of life through technology. Cell phones, Fax's, email, internet access, faster-bigger-better digital bodies every 3-4 months, instantaneous viewing of results--you get the drift. there may be something reassuring emotionally in using a 60-70 year old camera-"quality in construction" and "near permanent utility".....

 

Of course my, 1939 Rolleiflex looks pretty cool also....

Xenotar=Tessar, Xenar=Planar, right?

Beware of "TLRAS" (Twin Lens Reflex Acquisition Syndrome), it starts with a Yashicamat (or two), progresses to Ikoflex ownership--then multiple Rolleiflex ownership..the terminal phase is evidenced by, a) an overwhelming desire to own everyone else's TLR's (at any cost), and b)cancelled checks payable to Harry Fleenor...

....what about the mythological "Leica Glow"?

I just "got it " too...what's with the giant Circut City ad? Didn't close for me...had to find the togle...

Should be fine...(mark in Scottsdale, currently 112-115....)

Harvey--clearly a management candidate, practicing delegating...

Come on down to "The Surface of the Sun", er- I mean, "The Valley of the Sun" (112 and 6%---turn the inside of your nose into a box of corn flakes)....BTW, any word on where the SureFlash is?

Rather than a feeder--try a really LOUD Hawaiian shirt (red w/floral pattern), no fooling, I get "buzzed' regularly here in AZ (with the birds "hanging approx 2 feet in front of me), until they figure out I'm not a Hibiscus