ken_jeanette1

<p>Beautiful condition. Wonderful price. Hog heaven!!! Enjoy.</p>

<p>WOW, very upsetting to see the old KEH out the door. They were the best for used (B&H for new). RIP--KEH</p>

<p>I have one of those myself, with the viewer. Bought it several years ago (horribly expensive then) haven't used it for more that 12 pics in the years I've had it. Too bad, because they seem to take high quality photos.</p>

<p>Excellent company, with stellar reputation. I've bought several BGN bodies, and all have exceeded my expectation. Plus, their guarantee is best I've heard. Certainly better than auctions, where they never seem to know if something works, and grade minty to things that were used as hockey pucks.</p>

<p>Marc, Thank you for taking the time and effort to do this. Very enjoyable. I didn't know they had Viagra back then, and what relevance to photography? I had to read the article on the electrostatic camera. Foreshadow of today's digital age, albeit primitive.</p>

<p>Interesting that they let online bids. Seems like that auction house has their stuff right.</p>

<p>Dang you guys always make me salivate. How is the workings? Does it compare to say an M3 favorably? I used a Canon EP (older LTM style), but never one of the more modern versions. have fun!</p>

<p>If the C3 shutter is working, you will know it. Scratchy THUNK. But the open back test will confirm as Brian suggested.</p>

<p>Tim, There will be Secret service stalking you for life with a statement like that. In politics, EVERYTHING is taken out of context, blown out of proportion, and totally misinterpreted, and misrepresented.</p>

<p>Perhaps in means in steps, like 1/3 or 1/2 stop increments. So someone wouldn't have to say the shutter speed was 1/263 second. It was probably done as a convention to make shutter testing conform to standards, and repairmen didn't go crazy trying to adjust a continuously variable speed.</p>

<p>Does anyone have a link to a "quality" fake gold copy. Some folks like to collect belly button lint, I like odd cameras. Real or fake, who has a gold camera!</p>

<p>Word on the street is the next picture was French Fries. Very transformative.</p>

<p>Those big medium format SLRs are great toys. Great weapons too, in the right hands. My personal favorite was the Norita. I believe Nikkor lenses on a robust body, that just seemed to work. if you see any for sale today, they are almost complete brass and dings. I guess that attests to the amount of usage they were given.</p>

<p>The cover was great. Birth of the XGAMES???</p>

<p>I want a Mikroma! Thank you for these Marc. Great fun. </p>

<p>This is just personal preference, but my money would buy the Nikon. Decent lens, VG range of shutter speeds. </p>

<p>Does anyone know what this is? <a href="http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions/KOWA-anamorphic-35-5-500FT-lens-26333150.html">KOWA anamorphic .35 5-500FT. lens?</a><br> It's in an auction ending today on Shopgoodwill.com, and the site has a minimum bid of $75.00. They usually don't know very much about their items, so that could be a bogus asking price. The lens looks interesting to me. All gold, but I don't see any means of focus or f-stops.</p>

<p>John, I think the reference to Eisenhower in the caption is the name of the street after 1951.</p>

<p>I also found this statement on Lomography.com. "Shutter-Speed" is an iPhone-App that allows you to measure the shutter speed of a camera. With this app you can check whether your camera is exposing the film correctly, or if there are any deviations. If there are, then the App tells you how to correct it !</p>

<p>There is an application I remember on the internet that did shutter timing. I also fount this statement<br> Wondering whether or not the shutter speeds on your camera are accurate? Instead of taking it to a shop or buying expensive testing equipment, you can use an old television or CRT monitor as a simple shutter speed tester! Camera enthusiast <a title="" href="http://www.flickr.com/people/26262745@N08/" target="_blank">Rick Oleson</a> has <a title="" href="http://rick_oleson.tripod.com/index-135.html" target="_blank">an easy to understand diagram</a> showing what you can expect to see from the screen at different shutter speeds. For a more technical explanation and tutorial, check out <a title="" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ASoDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA106&ots=ICDJgXUqvl&dq=check%20shutter%20speed%20tv%20screen&pg=PA106#v=twopage&q=check%20shutter%20speed%20tv%20screen&f=true" target="_blank">this article</a> that appeared in a 1967 issue of Popular Science.<br> Check Rick Oleson pages to see what he had to say on the subject</p>

<p>No Pentax, No Miranda? I thought they had their SLRs out by 1955.</p>

<p>Check your local cam shops, they may have some way outdated SX70 film laying around that you can have for a song. The battery should be good even if out of date. Exposure may not look great, but you get to test functions over a couple of iterations.</p>

<p>Kent, you mean you wouldn't purchase the deposed prince's gold Leica with several matching lenses, all never used for the mere $200 they are asking?</p>

<p>I wonder why the big guys haven't thought of this, or if they have. My Digital SLRs and better point and shoots are so full of bells and whistles that every time I take one out, I practically have to read the manual. I remember the day when match needle, manual focus, and lever advance used to seem like state of the art.</p>

<p>That Rectaflex was a hefty priced camera for the day!! If these ads were from 1950, does that make the Rectaflex the first SLR?</p>