anglophone1
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Take the trip.............................buy a Holga!
Clive
Clive
If you had $2000 to waste ............
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unohuu
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Crete
Crete
Never used the this particular Mamiya 645, but I have been to Crete. It sits atop my lists of places I have been but yearn to return. Take the road trip. We (most of us) have all the gear we need. Lifetime experiences are rare in comparison to opportunities to gain new vision; new contacts; new perspectives.
Bertram, you want a 645 and two lenses to take on the trip? I will lend them to you for the small price of one beautiful print. M645 and M645J w/80mm f/2.8 and 150mm f/4. Prism finder and WLF. We can have an easy deal.
Luke
Crete
kmack said:
Never used the this particular Mamiya 645, but I have been to Crete. It sits atop my lists of places I have been but yearn to return. Take the road trip. We (most of us) have all the gear we need. Lifetime experiences are rare in comparison to opportunities to gain new vision; new contacts; new perspectives.
Bertram, you want a 645 and two lenses to take on the trip? I will lend them to you for the small price of one beautiful print. M645 and M645J w/80mm f/2.8 and 150mm f/4. Prism finder and WLF. We can have an easy deal.
Luke
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existrandom
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for me even if i get rid of all my photo gears, i cannot not buy the chance/time for a trip
kvanderlaag
my autofocus is broken.
unohuu said:
I don't think you can beat an offer like that!
The chance to own the camera yourself will come again, probably at a lower price in the future. The chance to go to Crete? Maybe not, and here you're being offered a chance to have the trip in its entireity, and the camera for the duration!
pvdhaar
Peter
About a month ago, I saw a decent looking 645 Pro-TL second hand in a shop for 350 Euro including the 80mm lens. Of course it didn't sit there really long, but it goes to show that $2000 isn't really a bargain for a two lens setup.Bertram2 said:
Bertram2
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unohuu said:
Luke,
this is really a generous offer! Thanks a lot ! I cannot accept it anyway, imagine the risk of damnage und all the idiotic hassle with the nerds at the customs we would have with sending a M 645 to Germany and back to Canada again !
I got a phone call this morning, concerning a new business project and now there is a huge fat question mark behind all travel ideas, at least for the next 3 months.
April and May are the only months good to go toCrete with a camera ( spring, all green, blossom) and so I am afraid that's IT with Crete in 2006. :bang:
If you will ever see new Crete photos in my gallery next year, ask me for a print in any case, I'll send you one or a good jpeg file to print, no prob. 🙂
Regards
Bertram
Andy K
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Not sure I'd go south, I would be more likely to go north on a trip I've been promising myself for a while now, Scandinavia and across the ocean to Iceland.
Bertram2
Gone elsewhere
anglophone1 said:
You surprise me , Clive ! Somebody living in Antibes wants to travel elsewhere ??
Why ?? Your ARE in the middle of the paradise yet, aren't you ? 😀
La Cote is another travel hot spot in my life, I love it as much as I love Crete, even a bit more I think ! 😀 Var and Bouches du Rhone are magic too. For me at least.
Have been there VERY often within the last 30 years.
Regards,
bertram
dostacos
Dan
camera now and trip later OR trip now and camera later.
PLAN: My father worked hard, enjoyed the game of oh shit...er golf. He built his company up from nothing to a 15 Million dollar business. His goal was to build it up, sell it and retire, then to play all the great golf courses of the world.
REALITY: 4 Years before retirement he had a total hip replacement...ok, he could still golf.....
year after retirement and 1 BEFORE medicare total knee, no mas golfing for him! few years later and a second total knee stopped all traveling.
I learned my lesson, go for the trips when you can, because when you have the TIME later in life you may not have the health!
Dan [staring down the barrel of a total hip just as soon as the daily pain overcomes the thought of surgery and rehab time]
PLAN: My father worked hard, enjoyed the game of oh shit...er golf. He built his company up from nothing to a 15 Million dollar business. His goal was to build it up, sell it and retire, then to play all the great golf courses of the world.
REALITY: 4 Years before retirement he had a total hip replacement...ok, he could still golf.....
year after retirement and 1 BEFORE medicare total knee, no mas golfing for him! few years later and a second total knee stopped all traveling.
I learned my lesson, go for the trips when you can, because when you have the TIME later in life you may not have the health!
Dan [staring down the barrel of a total hip just as soon as the daily pain overcomes the thought of surgery and rehab time]
sf
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If I had $2000 to waste, I wouldn't waste it. I'd buy a camera or a short vacation back to France in the Spring time.
unohuu
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Bertram2 said:
i have seen your work, Bertram. it is i who would benefit most from any deal. i understand the trouble of sending the camera back and forth (BTW, i am only a border relly of the Canadians), but the offer stands when and if you decide to do this next year as well.
Luke
Bertram2
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dostacos said:
You are damn right, as an old fartbag of 55 I should include this in my calculation, the more because the first health probs appeal now.
Hope that hip surgery will run well when you decide to let them make it !
Regards,
Bertram
Bertram2
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unohuu said:
Thanks for the compliments and for the offer again . The prob is I could have to pay toll if the customs do not believe what you will write on the customs sticker: "Moldy used old camera stuff, worth $80" , or similar. If they open the packing and see the camera they will know that we try to take the piss out of them 😉
Worst is you would have to pay toll fee too for your own camera when it comes back.
I have no clue if there is a way to avoid such hassle with a fictive rep order and I shiver while thinking about the hassle I could have with Germany customs officials 🙄
I'll keep your offer in my mind tho, thanks again, and I will try to get infos how one could handle the toll prob.
Best regards,
Bertram 🙂
Ergo
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I would drive to SF with M3 and 40mm,tale a million photos,eat at sam wo's then return home,5 hours total.
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amateriat
We're all light!
Don't know about "traveling south"...but I do know I would pack a small duffel with clothes, grab my bag of Hexars and glass and film, hop the A train and Airtrain to JFK, hop the next flight to Orly, slip onto the RER and Metro to Hotel Esmeralda (alone, this time), get the room with balcony overlooking the Seine and Notre Dame (and right around the corner from a certain famous bookshop), and spend a glorious week walking, meditating, photographing, and being seduced by this city all over again...
Skip all this to get yet another camera? Not on your life.
- Barrett
Skip all this to get yet another camera? Not on your life.
- Barrett
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tedwhite
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For five or six hundred bucks you can buy a very nice Rolleiflex. 120 film and a very good lens and still take the trip. Plus life gets simple, none of this Oh my, what lens shall I use?
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