14 Jul
1999
14 Jul
'99
8:33 p.m.
Building one shouldn't bee too difficult. I learned years ago, that
building two with interchangeable parts is what's a challenge.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: digital cameras
> I do see real ratty ones for $10-$20 at flea
markets,
> with almost certain holes in the bellows and gummy shutters on the
lenses,
and usually
with visibly broken rangefinders. These are things that can
be patched up, certainly, but I wouldn't turn an absolute beginner onto
such a fixer-upper when for a very reasonable price you can get a clean
one.
Sounds like quite a fun project, though. I don't subscribe to the myth
that cameras can't be fixed at home, and that parts for them can't be
made. I do both when I need to. Maybe I'm not an 'absolute beginner' :-)
A large format camera is something that I want to have a go at making
sometime. It doesn't look _too_ hard - certainly no worse than the sorts
of things that model engineers routinely make. I'll not know until I try,
I guess...
-tony