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Jacob
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mfogiel
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I thought I'd post this, because we have been discussing lately with jsuominen about the pros and cons of the new Italian coffee machine fad - the Nespresso. It is a more modern way of making your first rate coffee at home, and judging by what I see in their shop here in Milan when I go there to buy the refills, it is a smashing success - I can testify it tastes great 
. As my witnesses I have put my two latest acquisitions - as bodyguards, with probably my two most incredible, and very much loved lenses: the C Sonnar 50/1.5 and the C Biogon 21/4.5.
. As my witnesses I have put my two latest acquisitions - as bodyguards, with probably my two most incredible, and very much loved lenses: the C Sonnar 50/1.5 and the C Biogon 21/4.5.Attachments
vladhed
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Morca007 said:
What combination of lens/body is that? Looks like a modern DSLR with a pre-AI 50mm? How's that work? Are you stuck using the Sunny-16 rule?
Morca007
Matt
It's still film!
It's a Nikon N80 with a pre-AI Nikkor-S 50mm f/1.8 which I was shooting using an external meter and guesstimating.
I have no idea how I am able to fit an apparantly unconverted pre-AI lens on the body, but it does so easily and doesn't seem to have harmed it. I'm as confused as you.
It's a Nikon N80 with a pre-AI Nikkor-S 50mm f/1.8 which I was shooting using an external meter and guesstimating.
I have no idea how I am able to fit an apparantly unconverted pre-AI lens on the body, but it does so easily and doesn't seem to have harmed it. I'm as confused as you.
Gordon Coale
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I have a friend who had a friend that recently died. The guy was a serious camera collector. Not anything really valuable. Mostly lot of consumer stuff. Thousands of cameras. But there are a few gems. My friend is helping the widow sell them. The big sucker on the right wasn't part of that collection but my friend did get a mint Speed Graphic from the collection which made his Burke and James Press surplus so I bought it. It's been stripped of it's Kalart rangefinder so I'm looking for a parts camera for the Kalart and linkage. Whoever took off the Kalart also did a nice of turning it into a 4x5 field camera. It's all painted nice. Has a revolving back. When I bought the camera I thought the lens was for display but its a 170mm Kodak Anastigmat that covers 5x7. It's in a funky Kodak Ball Bearing shutter off a Kodak Autographic 3A from the 1920s. It should have an interesting look. I have another friend lending me a Schneider APO-Symmar 210/5.6 for this and I have a Wollensak Extreme Wide Angle 90/12.5 that covers 5x7 that I need to mount. But the Kalart rangefinder will be set up for my 127mm Ektar after I get the Supermatic shutter repaired. I will be making scales so that I can scale focus the other lenses hand held.
I'm going to help my friend sell a box of Yashica 35 Electros. (You will see them here first.) There are 12 of them. But, as we were going through the box, we found the bad boy on the left. A Yashica Lynx 14E with a f1.4 lens. Woo hoo! I was thinking of keeping an Electro until I saw the Lynx. It's mine! Available dark, here I come!
There was also a box with 3 Olympus XAs and several XA2s. We each grabbed an XA. I've been wanting one of those for a long time. There was also a box of Spotmatic stuff I brought home but that's for a different forum.
The coffee is Happy Hippie Organic from Mukilteo Coffee. It's roasted here on Whidbey Island. My son Robby works there. Great people. The coffee maker is an Aerobie AeroPress. Sort of a cross between a French press and and an Espresso maker. Makes great coffee!
I'm going to help my friend sell a box of Yashica 35 Electros. (You will see them here first.) There are 12 of them. But, as we were going through the box, we found the bad boy on the left. A Yashica Lynx 14E with a f1.4 lens. Woo hoo! I was thinking of keeping an Electro until I saw the Lynx. It's mine! Available dark, here I come!
There was also a box with 3 Olympus XAs and several XA2s. We each grabbed an XA. I've been wanting one of those for a long time. There was also a box of Spotmatic stuff I brought home but that's for a different forum.
The coffee is Happy Hippie Organic from Mukilteo Coffee. It's roasted here on Whidbey Island. My son Robby works there. Great people. The coffee maker is an Aerobie AeroPress. Sort of a cross between a French press and and an Espresso maker. Makes great coffee!
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Trius
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Gordie: Way cool, I can't wait till you post the Electros, but please don't tell my missus.
How does well that Aerobie work? I wondered about it before I got my Brikka.
How does well that Aerobie work? I wondered about it before I got my Brikka.
Gordon Coale
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Trius said:
I'll keep this our dark little secret.
Trius said:
I really like the Aerobie. I'm not sure that what it makes would be considered espresso, but it's close enough for me. Very nice.
One bummer. After I took the picture the shutter stopped working. Then at dinner I was playing with it and it started working again. Joy!! Than it stopped but this time I press down the shutter release and it doesn't pop back up. I press it again and the shutter fires and the release pops back up. This is not good. I really want to use this camera. I did get some batteries in the Olympus XA and ran through a half roll tonight.
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vladhed
R.I.P. 1997-2006
LuckyKarma said:
<smart alec>
I'm sorry your picture is inappropriate for this thread as it contains neither a rangefinder nor coffee
</smart alec>
(...vladhed is off to grind some Robusta beans into a fine powder and make some espresso...)
LuckyKarma
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vladhed said:<smart alec>
I'm sorry your picture is inappropriate for this thread as it contains neither a rangefinder nor coffee
</smart alec>
(...vladhed is off to grind some Robusta beans into a fine powder and make some espresso...)
hey now, don't knock my folgers! i'm afraid to try expensive coffee because I simply can't afford it.. $8 for a can of folgers is bad enough!
and i'm working on the rangefinder part.. i will try to make my next picture more appropriate
Trius
Waiting on Maitani
Vlad: You use Robusta for espresso? Details, details, please.
BTW and OT, I purchased up some dark roast Kona, made for espresso recently. It is interesting stuff.
BTW and OT, I purchased up some dark roast Kona, made for espresso recently. It is interesting stuff.
vladhed
R.I.P. 1997-2006
I lived a while in France and upon my return to Canada lamented that the espresso just wasn't the same. I later year in the France Culinaria book that most French cafés would use Robusta beans whereas the rest of the world pooh-poohd Robusta and preferred Arabica. So I managed to source some Robusta through a fair-trade co-op and proceed to use a cheap Braun grinder and one of those econo bar-type cappucino makers.
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thawkins
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I like this idea best of all. I would edit the picture and substitute Shiner Bock from the Texas hill country.Russ said:
GeneW
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This grey-body Bessa R3A just in from CameraQuest today:
Still awaiting delivery of a 40/1.4 S.C. Nokton to go with it. Its currently wearing an M-Hexanon 50/2, half case, and Gordy strap. Lovely cam -- it's replaced my M2 (sorry Tom A!)
Gene
Still awaiting delivery of a 40/1.4 S.C. Nokton to go with it. Its currently wearing an M-Hexanon 50/2, half case, and Gordy strap. Lovely cam -- it's replaced my M2 (sorry Tom A!)
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gene, what do think of the black lens on the grey body?