VEDY nice camera, Oscar! Nescafe hardly qualifies, though...
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I know I know... but it was an
instant picture, after all...
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she's beautiful!
does the meter work?
how does it feel to you compared to the 7?
what do you think of the finder?
c'mon, tell me everything!!
joe
hehe, here I go, first impressions after handling, not real use.
First of all, the camera is just what the seller said and what I was looking for, that is, a user. Very nice chrome, leather and paint on the black trims, but some brightmarks here and there, couple scratches on bottom plate, noticeable ding on one corner (just as my 7, just as my car), wrinkled curtains.
Operates very smoothly though, and everything seems to be accurate on it (must still check shutter speeds with Denis' tester but they sound ok).
The finder seems to be slightly brigher than the one on the 7, less bluish tint, as Joe said. The 1:1 magnification is nice, but makes the 35mm lines very hard to view with glasses. I'd say that in fact this finder works for me as a fantastic 50 with some peripheral area.
The framelines surprised me, being pretty bright, easy to see, parallax corrected and marked with the focal lenght, at this point I must say I can't find a lot of a difference with the ones on my 7. All three are visible at a time, but as the 35 is on the edges, and the 100 one works well for delimiting the central area of the 50 image, as if you had a sort of golden rule lines on your finder.
The round RF patch is nice, but there's not a lot of contrast difference between it and the rest of the viewfinder, being gold over 'white' vs. the gold over bluish combo on the 7. Works very well though and the 1:1 mag makes it easy to use.
The P came with a couple lenses. One is a minty chrome Canon 50/1.8, in fact a lens I was looking for
😱, excellent unmarked optics, but seems it suffered a similar accident than my CV pancake, as the last front metal ring is a bit tilted on one side (see pic). If that has the same effect it has on my pancake, well, then I'd be more than happy
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It also came with the Canon clip-on meter with incident light attachment. It works and seems accurate, and makes a great retro-look meter !
The 'gift' is a well worn and used but good working Jupiter-11 135 lens. Just like Brian's J-9, this lens barrel stops focusing not fully arriving to infinity, if that's the trademark of it being adjusted for real ltm cameras, it may be a nice lens to use, even though the 135 lines on my 7 make a pretty small area.
And... that's all, now comes the real use, will try to have real coffee ready
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