Axel
singleshooter
favorite coffee, favorite mug, favorite camera (at present
)jonal928
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agentlossing
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That Pen has seen some things!
jonal928
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The specific camera was purchased in the sixties of the last century, during a concert tour in Japan, by Mrs. Miriam Boskovich, a talented and gifted pianist (Miriam recently celebrated her hundredth birthday). I can assume that Mrs. Boskovich made quite a bit of use of her Olympus Pen camera W. About a dozen years ago, during a visit to Miriam, whose daughter I have been friends with for many years, she handed me a shopping bag with several cameras in it. 'You will find a better use for them than me,' said Miriam with a warm smile.
As mentioned, one of the cameras that Miriam packed inside the shopping bag was the Olympus Pen W that appears in the photo I took yesterday.
lxmike
M2 fan.
Majki
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Dan
Let's Sway
Moccamaster? I don't recognize the small "plate" on the base.
lxmike
M2 fan.
rfaspen
[insert pithy phrase here]
Funny, I thought my wife and I were the only people to drink out of beakers (not the ones from our labs!).
DownUnder
Nikon Nomad
We are all madly curious about the other cameras in that bag.
Come on, don't keep us in suspense!! (please)
jonal928
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Nothing special to tell about it. But since you are curious, I will tell you that in the shopping bag Mrs. Boskovich gave me, I discovered a Pentax KM camera, two Russian cameras from the Soviet Union era. and another one that was made in Italy; A camera made of bakelite for 126 roll film, with a Bauhaus style design. As mentioned, the former Soviet cameras were the Zorki 4, and the Kyiv-4, and already that evening, when I was sitting in a bar not far from Mrs. Boskovich's residence, I passed them on to an interested photographer friend, who promised me to find them a warm home. I passed the Pentax KM on to a friend whose daughter was interested in analog photography. The Bauhaus-designed 126 camera was moved to my parents' house, where it found a resting place on the bookcase shelf in my father's study. I kept the Olympus Pen W camera for myself. Not only because of its rarity I keep it, but also because of its attribution to the celebrated pianist Mrs. Boskovich. But between us, how can a person even think of releasing such a camera, which is a piece of history from a world that was and is no more.
BG7P4062 S2 by Jeri Leibovits, on Flickr**
skopar steve
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I need to know what's in the beaker?
JeffS7444
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The ceramic piece is what's known as a "tea pet".
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
agentlossing
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Both the Pentax 17 and the ceramic crab are what is often called "ugly cute."
Vince Lupo
Whatever
First camera and coffee in the new house. Hasselblad 907x with the 30mm f/3.5 and the control grip. Coffee is tasty Price Chopper half-caff from the great metropolis of Alexandria Bay, NY.
Shab
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Café and X100 [Maule]
dickgillberg
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JeffS7444
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I've joined the monochrome club.
(for those of you not familiar with the things, it's a Chinese digital camera for kids. A built-in thermal printer produces super cheap b&w prints on the sort of paper normally used for cash register receipts)
And scans of some of the prints, at about 1-1/2 times life size:
(for those of you not familiar with the things, it's a Chinese digital camera for kids. A built-in thermal printer produces super cheap b&w prints on the sort of paper normally used for cash register receipts)
And scans of some of the prints, at about 1-1/2 times life size:
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Retro-Grouch
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Very interesting! This has potential for lots of fun, and some serious stuff too. Can you tell us more about this camera, particularly what it's called? It looks like a candidate for cheap GAS, the best kind...