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<p>Good points, Larry West, about the difference in the Super 8 cartridge and the standard 8mm movie camera.</p>

<p>When the shutter on my Nikon S2 (manufactured in the early to mid-1950s) wears out, bing huey, I'll let you know. I know plenty of professional photographers who have "used up" their shutter actuations on dSLRs in just a couple of years.</p>

<p>Remember, too, that because someone failed at something in the past doesn't mean that invention won't be successful in the future. There are all kinds of reasons why inventions fail that don't have anything to do with whether the inventions could prove useful. Why would <em>I</em> want a digital back for my film cameras? Because I began taking photographs and buying film gear in the 1970s and I have a lot invested in it. I also know the equipment so well I could operate it in my sleep.</p>

<p>Here is an article from the same Web site from a year ago about Nikon patenting a digital back for its 35mm film SLRs: http://petapixel.com/2012/12/17/nikon-patent-shows-a-back-for-turning-film-slrs-into-digital-cameras/<br>

Then again, maybe Nikon decided to just create the Dƒ.</p>

 

<p>Yes, Craig Dickson, my guess is that the company is going to make a gadget that will replace the film back, which could mean the product may be limited to certain lines of 35mm SLRs. We'll see.</p>

<p>Interesting story about a digital "film pack" for Super 8 movie cameras. The story also mentions that a version might be made for 35mm film cameras as well. I also wish the company would make one for standard 8mm movie cameras.<br>

http://petapixel.com/2013/12/09/startup-nolab-building-hd-digital-adapter-super-8-film-cameras/</p>

<p>Excellent set of photos. I particularly like your photos of the Corsair, one of the great fighters of the World War II-era.</p>

<p>Beautiful images you have made! I became aware of the Contax RTS SLRs in the 1970s, but they were tremendously expensive in the United States, even used, so I never once met a photographer (and I knew quite a lot of them over the years), amateur or professional, over the years who owned them.</p>

<p>Odd name for a camera! Glad they're working out for you all.</p>

<p>When "Hoarders" shows up at your door with a camera crew?</p>

<p>Unemployment for four years and moving twice in the past year helped me decide. I sold a lot of gear to help make ends meet. A year ago my wife and I moved from a large two-bedroom apartment to a small one-bedroom apartment to save on rent. Then in May we finally broke a spell of unemployment by moving from Phoenix, Ariz., to Des Moines, Iowa. Which is not to say I still don't have a lot of gear -- I have four Domke bags and a couple of sizeable boxes filled with stuff. But I did get rid of more than a dozen cameras, numerous lens and flashes and other miscellaneous items. I still have most of the gear I dearly love, except for the 10.5 cm and 8.5 cm Nikkor lenses for my Nikon S2 rangefinder. I really miss those.</p>

<p>I have had Essex work on Nikon rangefinders, Olympus Pen SLRs and Olympus OMs. Great work on all.<br>

http://essexcamera.com/</p>

<p>So did fresh batteries take care of the problem?</p>

<p>I own a Pen F, a Pen FT and two Pen FV bodies (one of which works well and another I bought as a parts camera). I love them. If you shoot with fast shutter speeds and, as I often do, use a monopod with the lower speeds, you can minimize camera shake and get sharp prints up to 5X7.</p>

<p>...And, yes, I'd have to agree with you, Lex Jenkins. The OM system that went to market is of much more use to me, and I'm certain most photographers, than a "mini-Hasselblad." Still interesting, though.</p>

<p>Yes, I should have said, it is a 35mm-film camera in the style of a medium-format camera. Still wondering whether any of them ever left Olympus.</p>

<p>Great work, Mr. Meluso! And you have it right with respect to the usage of the term "single frame," which is the format on which 35mm movies were shot.<br /><br /></p>

<p>I usually visit the Olympus Camera Wallpaper Library every other month or so but hadn't been there for a few months until today, when I saw this<br>

http://www.olympus.co.jp/jp/fun/wallpaper/camera/dl.cfm?id=372&type_id=1&la=en<br>

It looks, of course, like a medium format SLR. I found one very old thread here on photo.net that likely was about this camera but all of the links posted on there for information are dead. Anyone have any idea whether any of these cameras ever got loose to the public?</p>

 

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<p>Yes, a colleague of mine about five years ago gave me his late father's Olympus OM-2N with several lenses. He said a pawn shop had offered to buy the whole kit for $5, so he asked around the newsroom for anyone who liked Olympus gear. I was the only prospective taker.</p>

<p>In my experience, leather cases are more likely to encourage fungus growth, more so than their synthetic counterparts. People say leather isn't a problem if it's properly tanned. Unless you're experienced at tanning, I'm not sure how you would know if it is properly tanned.</p>

<p>How did you avoid converging lines on the vertical in the first photo?</p>

<p>I know this is an old post but I figured I would continue the discussion rather than start a new post. Anyway, when I put a battery (and I have four of them) into the charger, I thought it was supposed to blink until the battery was 90 percent charged. The charger doesn't blink at all, even though I know the batteries are dead. Is there a typical time period that it takes to fully charge a battery so I can avoid over-charging?</p>

<p>I've never been there but what's funny is how much this shop resembles the first location of Davis Camera in my hometown of Indianapolis from the same era. Did your dad's store offer camera repair as well?</p>