31 Mar
2012
31 Mar
'12
11:44 a.m.
On Mar 30, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
I will agree it's a fine camera (I don;t have one, only a plain Nikon F),
but I do also have a soft spot for the East German cameras, many of which
are seriously under-rated and have very good lenses.
All of them have soemthing desriable about them, BTW. I do like the slow
speeds to 12 secodns amd the flim cutting knife on my Exakta :-). I do
like the breech-lock mount nad the motordrive coupling on the Praktina.
Alas I don't ahve the Pentacon Super...
This is really OT, but I think you'll all be
pleased to know that my
father is recovering. Tiday when I visited him, we had a long discussion
about the relative desirability of the Nikon F2, Pentacon Super, Praktina
IIA and Exakta Varex cameras. Maybe not a typical topic for hosptial
converstaions, but...
Glad to hear it. I'll advocate for the F2 any day; I still occasionally use my father's that he got while serving in the
Navy. I've mostly given
up film because of the difficulty and expense of developing it, not the
cameras (or at least not that camera). :-)
It's not that hard to do it yourself.. And the equipment is not expensive.
-tony