filmtwit
Desperate but not serious
Current lesson learned: do not buy an early M5.
Mid and Late model m5 = yes, early M5 = no.
So what have you learned recently>?
Mid and Late model m5 = yes, early M5 = no.
So what have you learned recently>?
payasam
a.k.a. Mukul Dube
Hardly recently, but I did learn to ask "Why?"
FrankHarries
Well-known
I Learned to say "NO" when another great deal came along with the opportunity to by my 12th camera!
Roger Hicks
Veteran
You mean you still know how many you've got? I lost count years ago. I know I have only one 12x15, one 10x8 and two 5x7, but I have to think about 5x4 (5 I think) and by the time I hit MF it must be a score or more, including folders. At 35mm I give up completely.
Mind you, that's over 40 years' worth, since I was 16. I never seem to sell quite as many as I buy, and although I've bought comparatively few cameras in the last 10 years I've been given several.
Cheers,
R.
aizan
Veteran
i should have bought a durst. 
Roger Hicks
Veteran
i should have bought a durst.
No you shouldn't. Zero support as soon as a given model was discontinued, even when they were in production. How do I know? Broken 138S head...
Cheers,
R.
filmtwit
Desperate but not serious
i should have bought a durst.
See I would have drink, preferably single malt.
aizan
Veteran
jensen optical stocks parts for the 138s, among other things.
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Thanks, but too late. Three out of six BIG dichroic filters smashed 20+ years ago by shipper WHO REPACKED IT out of my careful packaging, with no padding at all. Replaced with De Vere 5x7 head.
Cheers,
R.
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Pirate
Guitar playing Fotografer
I've learned that when you live in the land of "Far, Far Away", and you buy a camera body, it should be sent straight to a repair shop for a CLA, THEN to you so you don't have to turn around and ship it right back!
Phantomas
Well-known
Care to explain why? I got a friend infected with RF bug so now he wants one. I'm helping him find one, currently eyeing an M5 on a local auction site. Wouldn't mind to know what I should watch out for?...
FrankHarries
Well-known
Roger Hicks
Veteran
...so you have to learn counting ????
So I still have to learn to remember (a) where they all are and (b) which ones I've sold or (increasingly often) given away.
Cheers,
R.
FrankHarries
Well-known
Reading that I would gladly have your task of learning....
Thardy
Veteran
Pass on old film cameras no matter how "great" the deal.
Sparrow
Veteran
iirc the shutter drum on the early ones is said to be fragile ... but I've no idea how true it is
Krosya
Konicaze
I'd like to know that too. Also - whats an "early" for M5?
johannielscom
Snorting silver salts
Read here recently: Sherry Krauter advises to buy an M5 over 134xxxx number, the earlier ones are likely to suffer from cracked shutter drums and that spells a full dismantle and all-in-all a 9-hour repair, so bl**dy expensive.
John Lawrence
Well-known
The old adage, 'you get what you pay for', generally holds true.
For some reason I keep ignoring this, (most recently a purchase three weeks ago), and keep paying the price.
John
For some reason I keep ignoring this, (most recently a purchase three weeks ago), and keep paying the price.
John
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Krosya
Konicaze
So is it any number over 1340000 is good, or over 1349999 is good?