sold all my RF gear, got a Nikon D40X

endustry said:
Still waiting for the April Fool's Announcement that the M8 has been discontinued. NOW that would result in a few coffee-spattered monitors!
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That would be too obvious. Now, off to eat the best dish in the world, Yorkshire pudding, followed by copious servings of jellied eels. Mmmm-mmm!
 
😀 Sure had me for a moment.

Yesterday afternoon I and two other guys were at a friend's place. Now this guy is fond of music and has a huge collection (around 40GB of mp3s). In the middle of a piece it suddenly dawned on me that April 1 was a few hours away, so why not... 🙄

I told him point blank that I had the particular piece that was playing in my collection too, and it was playing ``slower'' than usual on his laptop (which by the way is a really old machine). Then I pretended to make some observations with my watch for 3 min and declared that his computer clock was losing 15 sec in 3 min. This was completely flabbergasting to say the least, but everybody else joined in (probably understood the date), conducted their own experiments, and reported conflicting time differences. A while later we apparently agreed that the computer clock was actually losing around 12 sec in 3 min. My friend was totally freaked out 😱, particularly when he was told that he would have to listen to every piece in his collection once again at normal speed to properly appreciate them 😀. A while later somebody pointed out that the clock on his microwave oven was losing time as well, so perhaps he was overcooking everything 😀...

Just in case somebody is wondering what is this `story' doing here in RF gen. discussion, let me just mention that I had my Fed3 + Jupiter 8 with me all the while 😛
 
Max... that was mean. I remembered the date after I had some coffee. Then scanned the newspaper looking for joke-items and found none... only to be gotten really bad here! 🙂

Now, if you had said you've gotten a D200, then it would have been less evident. A D40X? 😱 That was a good one! 😉
 
Yes I live in Prague 🙂 And I just woke up finding all these replies (kinda sleepy/still ill/now hungry) 😉

Jan: I'm probably getting a D40X but for my office needs (taking photos of events at work) I'm keepin all my film RF gear thankfully!!!! 😀

getting = my employer will pay for that. 🙂
 
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I've only been here a short time but still nearly had a coronary reading this.

FWIW, I've had a D40 for three months. Since I have an overwhelming preference for smallish cameras, it's the perfect DSLR for me. But every time I pick it up after shooting with my Hi-Matic or Canon P, the first thought I have is: "Damn, I hate looking down this tunnel!"

Technically RF's are a pain, but for me one glance through a good viewfinder is all it takes to make that irrelevant.
 
This is the 50th anniversary of perhaps the most famous joke in the British media. The BBC had their most senior presenter, on their top current affairs program, to present the film seen below....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/...9711.stm&news=1&nbwm=1&nbram=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1

Well before my time, but we are told that some people never realised that it was a joke and spent the next decade in confusion 🙂
 
darkkavenger said:
I'll still hang around here in case I get myself an M8 this year.
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I said : it's possible, but this sentece( abuot M8 ) was toooo much 😀
Well , speaking frendly, I had offer from a friend - about 4-5 months ago - to have
Sigma 30mm f:1.4 for free - if I buy Nikon D40 ... the end of that story is :
Bessa R2M + B&W films :angel:
Maybe, Max - one day - if you choose Nikon only wise choice is:
ZF lenses 😛
Regards!
 
Whoa! Good joke! Well done!

Brutal crack, really:
1) selling all the RF gear and
2) buying a D40(x) - a body that cannot even use all Nikkor lenses!!!

Oh, boy. Thank God it was only a joke.
 
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