almost bought an SLR, saved by fate

[BillBingham2]

Frank,

Worry not, buying an F3hp is a venial sin. It’s a classic camera, IMHO, second only to the F2. Easy to find motors, screens and finder for, has 100% viewing of the frame and it takes film. I’m not a “A” (read automatic) type of guy, otherwise I would have gone with one of them when I rebuilt my Nikon SLR system a few months back.

Let’s see, for a venial sin, if you recite the CV LTM lens chart (currently manufactured lenses only please) from longest to widest and all will be forgiven!!

B2 (;->

 

[FrankS]

Thanks Bill, that's what I was looking for: absolution! (A very convenient concept!)

 

[dee]

Hmmm -- i think that what is good about my Minolta SR 7v / Srs , 24 / 28 / 45 / 50 / 135 / 85 Rokkors is that they have no value - unlike Nikkon stuff - so no temptation to convert to ... probably Kievs ....

But I have a lot of stuff that has no value - most of it recently aquired USSR cameas !!

dee

 

[kshapero]

According to my wife, it ALL has no value until she wants pictures of the family.

 

[mtbbrian]

I had two F3HP's back college, it was by far my most memorable camera.
I say go for it!
Brian

 

[darkkavenger]

I would sin (and sacrifice) a lot for a Pentacon Super .... 😉

 

[visiondr]

The F3 is a nice camera. But for me, I always wanted an F2. A close friend bought one when we were fresh out of high school in the seventies. It was love at first sight for me. The sound of that shutter... A love never realized. 😱

You're kidding, right?... the F2 shutter sounds like someone opening and then violently closing the front passenger door on an AMC Pacer! Crimeny, you could wake the dead with that thing!

 

[PetarDima]

As you allready said Frank, the final result - good or bad photography - is the thing that we count ... that Nikon is fine optical instrument with manual focus & total control of creative photo process ... RF photography is way of thinking ... sooner or later I will be happy to see some new stuff from your M4 Leica tool 😀

 

[PaulGuy]

You're kidding, right?... the F2 shutter sounds like someone opening and then violently closing the front passenger door on an AMC Pacer! Crimeny, you could wake the dead with that thing!

I most certainly am serious and what I liked about the sound had nothing to do with quietness. It had a quality about it which I can't explain and you may never have experienced. After all I'm talking about a brand new F2. You were around 10 years old when I played with that camera. (Even though you do remember the Pacer, boy what were they thinking?) 😛 I also happen to like the sound of the barn doors on a hasselblad. Not everything has to be stealthy.😉

 

[PaulGuy]

OM4?
Unfortunately, I do...
I could just slip it onto the shelf with the other OM gear..
my wife would never notice another one...
(1) Murphy's law of stupid buying: Wife is standing in the door whenever UPS man arrives.

Lucky you! My lovely wife works at the post office. Even on those days that I make it home before her she'll come in the house asking "What was that package you got today?". I can't even have it sent to work, she delivers to my workplace!! That's how I met her!:bang:

That's not the half of it. When your wife works for the PO, there is a network of spies all over the town you live in. Think about it, where can you go without running into a letter carrier? I can't make a trip to Home Depot without my where abouts being reported by one of those white postal trucks that roam all over town.

😱

 

[ChrisPlatt]

My lovely wife works at the post office. Even on those days that I make it home before her she'll come in the house asking "What was that package you got today?". I can't even have it sent to work, she delivers to my workplace!! That's how I met her!:bang:

That's not the half of it. When your wife works for the PO, there is a network of spies all over the town you live in. Think about it, where can you go without running into a letter carrier? I can't make a trip to Home Depot without my where abouts being reported by one of those white postal trucks that roam all over town.

Use FedEx hold for pickup, or get a PO box in the next town. 😉

Chris

 

[Berliner]

I saw an FM3a today for the first time--love at first sight. It had a really nice 45mm P on it--simply beautiful. I know this feeling, I won't rest till I have it--I'm doomed...But hey it's mechanical...

 

[mw_uio]

The F3HP, and the F3/T 😀
Ain't she Sweet Frank! !

Cheers
Mark
Quito, EC

 

[FrankS]

Hey Mark, you're fishing in the wrong pond too! 🙂

Would someone please send Mark at least a broken Fed to make him legit?

 

[mw_uio]

Well this pond has life, which has diverse characters, and way better than the others.

 

[sepiareverb]

That other pond is closed- too much venom in those watersnakes?

 

[Stephanie Brim]

Hell, I have a body, but I didn't think that 28/2.8 AI was going to be THIS hard to find.

 

[back alley]

Frank: If you are interested in an OM I may have a deal for you ...

earl,
are you selling om gear?
really?

joe

 

[Rob-F]

I dunno what your penance is, but when I sold my 8008 (had not used it in 5 years) I used the $$ to buy an F3HP with motor drive. I bet I've shot all of two rolls with it in the past 2 years. I don't like the "+-" exposure indicator all that much. I prefer the match-needles on my FE2's, and the diodes on my R6, and M6. I feel that exposure is an analog phenomenon best represented by an analog display. That remeinds me, I should get rid of my F3, along with my OM-2n, my Visoflex, Rolleiflex T, and other stuff I don't use, and get a digital body: maybe an R-D1. Or a D-200.