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Check out dpreview.com. They currently have 39 user reviews of the camera. I am interested in it and may take the plunge soon.
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You never can tell with photo.net. El Convento may be for real. But the idea of a digital back for a Lomo nearly had me snorting my cup of coffee back out through my nose.
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I agree with Ben. There's no reason to spend your money on a new kit of Nikon or Canon stuff. Pentax lenses are equal to the best, and the Ricoh bodies with K-mounts were superb. I say this as a long-time Minolta user.
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Chient99 has an unusual feedback profile but he/she is not hurting you, and doesn't seem to be upsetting anyone on eBay, so why bother about it?
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<P>Kelly, I'm sure your chronology is right but my point is that Olympus had a mature <I>camera</I> business before the advent of digital, but then found it had to compete with new players in the <I>digital camera</I> business. Casio was not making 35mm cameras in the 1960s when Olympus rangefinders were in their heyday.</P>
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A couple of years back I paid 30GBP (about $50) for a 1950s vintage Yashica-mat in immaculate condition. It's a buyer's market for old yashies. They are super cameras but not highly valued in the market. You really might as well hang on to it unless you are totally broke and need the money.
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<P>This is sobering news but I think the truth is, the digital bubble has grown too fast. Consumers are over the honeymoon period with new technology and are less willing to replace and upgrade than the manufacturers had hoped (not just hoped, they bet the farm on it).</P><P>Digital opened the door to some new players in the camera market, like Sony, Panasonic and Casio, so things are tougher for the old guard like Olympus.</P>
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<P>This topic is not exactly news so the question here is, who wrote that answer purporting to come from KM Corporation? Is it word for word or the poster's interpretation?</P><P>My personal feeling about the future of film is that it may depend heavily on the technology at the consumer photo printing outlets. If there is convergence of the digital and film processing and printing routes, it will remain viable to put film through and film sales will hang on.</P><P>As for the future of particular cameras, well, that's anybody's guess.</P>
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<P>Frank, we deal in opinion, not fact, on these forums. I guess I was just reacting because I can't join in this "one camera, one lens, one film" philosophy. It's true I have a favourite camera (Minolta XD-7) but that's just a "form and function" preference - it fits my hand, the weight and balance are right and it's very easy to use: but then I use a variety of lenses and films depending on what I'm photographing.</P><P>The comment about hammers was meant in jest. Whenever I hire a builder he seems to wield a hammer to do most things.</P>
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<P>The tone of your post suggests there is something unethical or wrong about your dealer, but to my mind he is merely adapting to today's market. He is finding film cameras difficult to sell so he doesn't want to do it, when there is a healthy digital market out there. He's there to earn a living, not to cater to your particular preferences.</P><P>I have a local dealer who still buys and sells old film cameras and I know I'm lucky. And I won't bad mouth him if decides he's had enough and stops doing it.</P>
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I had one and it didn't have a rangefinder. It was zone focus.
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Ernst Leitz that's who's.
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Douglas, I agree with Frank that a 20-200mm zoom lens to fit a Fujica SLR is a very improbable creature, but if you say so... And I agree that to get focal lengths outside that range, prime lenses rather than zooms will be easier to find and cheaper. If it's a M42 mount, there are lots of 300 and 400mm telephotos out there, and a few ultrawides below 20mm. If it's the Fujica mount, the T-mount adapter will be the way to go unless you're very lucky.
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A 24 roll is 2/3 the length of a 36 so you can expect 2/3 as many pano shots: so if 21 is correct for the 36, you get 14.
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More information needed. What's a fasica camera? Is that really a 20-200mm zoom lens you've got? Are you looking for a longer zoom or a larger range?
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I kind of enjoy the Moskva because it looks so way out, but I wouldn't pretend it's easy to use. What you get is a 6x9 neg, a decent lens and change out of thirty bucks (or so). You have to be careful refitting the back, and light leaks are always a possibility, but on a good day it does the job very well.
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OK, you've had your fun but the party's over. A camera is a tool not an object of admiration or desire. If your photographic aspirations extend to more than one subject you're going to need more than one tool. It's like telling the guy who's about to build you a house that he can only bring one tool. (OK, most builders would opt for a hammer but that's another story.)
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The fact that you can swap batteries and get the "dead" ones to work in your old XD suggests to me it's a voltage threshold problem. The electronics in your "new" XD may have degraded and pushed up the circuit trigger voltage so that only new batteries will work. A trip to the repair shop is called for (unless you can return it to seller).
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A light meter is reliable in what it does but unfortunately it's not doing what you think. It treats every scene the same, as a uniform 18% grey, and registers accordingly. Hence the earlier remark about snow scenes. A brain is always needed to work out exposures, and a light meter is just a handy accessory.
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I like the XD-11 (or XD-7 depending where in the world you are). You will need Minolta MF lenses as well because the Maxxum lenses don't fit. It's a different photo experience from just turning off the AF.
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How would that work, Charles? The early Paxettes were all-manual with no meter.
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I had the 70-210 series 1 with the 67mm filter a couple of years ago and I got rid of it. It was very heavy and I thought it was a little soft at the 210 end of things. I have tried the MD 70-210 but have not owned one. It's lighter, the speed difference is insignificant and the performance is much better. If you need that zoom range (and I've decided I don't) I would say the MD is the first choice.
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This doesn't exactly answer your question, but I use a Bay I to 49mm stepping ring on my Yashicamat and Microcord and I put a "standard" 49mm screw lens hood on that. The hood is effective, I think. There is no vignetting but you can see the top of the hood in the finder. The same would probably apply in the Bay II situation.
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ebay is a market, and it's probably not worth trying to understand the underlying forces. People want old stuff in original boxes, and they pay big money. Know this and use it to your advantage. A couple of years back I sold an old die-cast toy truck on eBay. Because I still had the box, it fetched 10x the basic value (and about 50x the original retail price). With this kind of value-added, it's no wonder there's a trade in empty boxes.
Too many SRT's??
in Sony/Minolta
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