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If a major motivation for the trip is photography, personally I would take a camera. I admit bias, since I was forced to use a camera without a finder for work for several years and found it very difficult under sunny skies, sometimes even needing to revisit a site and take more photos. I also haven't had a cell phone since I retired many years ago.

Apparently you have no content of any kind. If you wish, I can ban on Member request, just let me know.

One missing piece, or maybe two. Often equipped with the 43-86 and AW-1 Winder. Quite a good combo, at least with the later version of the lens. The winder was fun but not particularly fast, but with 36 exposures...

https://butkus.org/chinon/minolta/minolta_maxxum_7000/minolta_maxxum_7000.htm I think this is the one.

Still have mine, with the winder. Was my second to an F Photomic Tn. Both excellent, but how far we have come,

Both my Df and Zf, the latter, so far comparatively little used, are virtually silent. Just the tiniest little click on the ZF, quieter by far the the shutter sound.

Never did it but maybe https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/02/10/using-baking-soda-and-superglue-to-reconstruct-broken-plastic-parts/

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I have one of these, though a newer variant. Was a given it by a friend, now long deceased, who was the graduate of a West Coast Photography school. It could be useful in film days, and took some of the guesswork out of the color / value decisions. My recollection is that he used it more for movie work than still photos.

I am stripping a great many slide trays, my Fathers and my own, literally a pallet load of cartons. These fit an older Nikon projector, and I think Sawyer. Probably others, both carousel style round and straight. Rather than trash them, I would prefer to send them to someone who will use them. Free for actual shipping cost in the U.S. PM please.

Once a battery swells it needs to go into recycling not a camera!

I had no trouble loading this on your thread, drag & drop Size? Source? I'm certainly no kind of software guy.

How does another photo of Anything make sense after a seminal one by a master? Simply because it is a different time and another eye / skill - nude, green pepper, landscape, etc. etc..

Do list a few significant ones. I'll always use cameras and don't even own a phone, but am interested in the perceived advantages.

I'd flip that, making a formidable knife an emergency tool in the camera.

If you click at the top of who is on line (See Full List) you can find out whenever you care to. Around 500 just now.

I do not have the ability to completely remove a person from the site, and frankly, the internet being what it is, I'm not sure it is possible. The OP has minute content and has not replied to my PM.

If you can find a copy of the Nikon / Nikkormat Handbook by Joseph D. Cooper published by EPOI when they repped for Nikon in the U.S, you will get what you need. The late, loose leaf set of binders is the last version. If you can't find something, I can look and scan a few pages for you from my set.

Do get it out of that foam. IMHO It appears to be on the edge of a massive and messy failure that I have seen before.

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Have many Nikons and lengthy instruction books, you are probably correct. I only made the error of resetting a camera and losing my settings once some years back. Surprisingly, when I sent a camera to Nikon for repair it was returned with settings intact.

You can save settings on a card that you store separately.

I can't give any more than a practical response. I have neither the background nor the interest to pursue the science. For at least the last 5 or 6 years I have been habitually using a range of F 11 to F 16 for close up / macro photos with Nikon digital cameras and several different Nikon lenses. Many still posted here, sharp, and in my gallery. An old friend and expert photographer had been following doctrine expressed with larger F stops, was amazed with the results he got with smaller apertures. Easy and cheap enough with digital to experiment for yourself.

Once I had a convertible with white upholstery, constant cleaning and you really didn't handle the seats. Never after. I can't imagine how quickly a white camera would go to dirt color.

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