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Greetings Canon shooters,
My newest camera apprived... a P!
It's in pretty good shape overall, except for the engravings the seller didn't mention or show in the photographs. The engravings are neatly done and reasonably small, but I would not have agreed to the selling price had I known they existed. Can anyone suggest what a fair discount should be for an engraved body? $50? $75? More?
It came with a 50mm 1.4 Mark 1 lens (no meter scale on the barrel). I saw the recent discussion on that lens, and I'm wondering if anyone at this point has done a comparison between the Mark 1 and Mark 2 models for performance purposes? If they are indeed the same optical design, then there should be no differences, other than the small variation in single sample variability.
It came with a P meter, but the needle seems to be a bit sticky, and the low light cell (the white setting) seems to be inoperative. I'm going to open up the meter and see what I can see. Are there any specific issues I need to be aware of with the meter? I don't want to damage it any more that it already is.
The viewfinder and rangefinder seem to be bright and working properly, but as people have said, the 35mm lines are not really visible with glasses on. This makes me wonder whether a different camera (like an M2) may be a better camera for 35mm lenses? Wider than that would require an accessory viewfinder, but if it is possible to have a solid coupled 35mm coverage in a camera like an M2, then I would probabaly entertain the idea a bit. Can anyone comment on that? I'm also open to the idea of an M2 because that will then permit me to have to option of getting M mount lenses in the future.
Thanks,
---Michael
My newest camera apprived... a P!
It's in pretty good shape overall, except for the engravings the seller didn't mention or show in the photographs. The engravings are neatly done and reasonably small, but I would not have agreed to the selling price had I known they existed. Can anyone suggest what a fair discount should be for an engraved body? $50? $75? More?
It came with a 50mm 1.4 Mark 1 lens (no meter scale on the barrel). I saw the recent discussion on that lens, and I'm wondering if anyone at this point has done a comparison between the Mark 1 and Mark 2 models for performance purposes? If they are indeed the same optical design, then there should be no differences, other than the small variation in single sample variability.
It came with a P meter, but the needle seems to be a bit sticky, and the low light cell (the white setting) seems to be inoperative. I'm going to open up the meter and see what I can see. Are there any specific issues I need to be aware of with the meter? I don't want to damage it any more that it already is.
The viewfinder and rangefinder seem to be bright and working properly, but as people have said, the 35mm lines are not really visible with glasses on. This makes me wonder whether a different camera (like an M2) may be a better camera for 35mm lenses? Wider than that would require an accessory viewfinder, but if it is possible to have a solid coupled 35mm coverage in a camera like an M2, then I would probabaly entertain the idea a bit. Can anyone comment on that? I'm also open to the idea of an M2 because that will then permit me to have to option of getting M mount lenses in the future.
Thanks,
---Michael