"Its really old".....

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A young man (21 years old) I work with and I were having a conversasion the other day and it came up that I was involved in photography. He told me one of his interests was snow skiing and that normally he would buy a disposable 35mm camera when he went on an outing. On his last outing he had taken a camera that belonged to his parents. He didn't know the brand but it had auto focus. Anyway the pictures that he got back were horrible. He showed them to me and there were indeed horrible. But it was not the camera . The processing had been botched and/or the film had been heated at some point. Since the pictures were taken in February on a mountain covered with snow I ruled out heat problems. The prints were very flat and all had a pinkish or slightly purple cast . And one of them had what looked to be chemical runs down it in a brownish color . He is going to bring the camera in for me to look at and see if there is a problem. But what I got a kick out of was his description of the camera in the conversaion.

"What kind of camera is it"? I inquired. "I don't know" he said, "But its really old" he went on. " Its at least five or six years old".......

I had to smile at that. My Leica IIIa is 70 years old and my Rolleicord is over 50. With the exception of my digital every camera I own is older than he is.

He's a good guy and a very good computer tech and I am not trying to put him down. I just got a kick out of this conversaion. 😛

 

[simonankor]

Kids these days!

It wasn't like that when I was 21, four years ago! 😉

 

[remrf]

Kids these days!

It wasn't like that when I was 21, four years ago! 😉

Don't give me any guff yung'un. When I was your age I was a year older than that.. 🙄

 

[simonankor]

With the exception of my Bessa R, all of my cameras are older than me... the oldest being a pre-war FED 1 😀

 

[ch1]

Truth be told, if he's only 21 y.o. or so - then to him, something that is 5 or 6 years old really is! Heck it equals close to a third of his life! 😱

But the other thing is that with the every increasing pace of technological change - he's got a point - 5 or 6 years is really old.

I never read Alvin Toffler's (?) book "Future Shock"....but we are clearly living it!

 

[remrf]

With the exception of my Bessa R, all of my cameras are older than me... the oldest being a pre-war FED 1 😀

Odd that you would mention the Bessa R just now. As your post came in I was looking at one on ebay. What do you think of it. Obviously you liked the camera as you bought one but what observations would you make to someone who was possibly looking into buying one?

 

[simonankor]

I use it with the 35/2.5 Skopar and a Canon 50mm f/1.8. It's a beautiful camera, the weight is just perfect and it's very nice to grip. My favourite shooter.

The viewfinder is very bright and clear, though I do agree with some people that the meter readout tends to be a bit bright, which can be a problem in low light. The easy solution is to remove the batteries.

The rangefinder baselength feels a little short, but in truth I've never had a problem focussing the 50/1.8 up close and wide open - I shoot indoors at night a lot.

I have a Bessa T on order, can't wait to get that! 😀

 

[remrf]

Truth be told, if he's only 21 y.o. or so - then to him, something that is 5 or 6 years old really is! Heck it equals close to a third of his life! 😱

But the other thing is that with the every increasing pace of technological change - he's got a point - 5 or 6 years is really old.

I never read Alvin Toffler's (?) book "Future Shock"....but we are clearly living it!

I did read it though I don't know that I agree with everything he had to say. Perception is NOT reality in most cases. And one could get hurt or killed quite easily following the axiom that it is.

Example: A transistor that is defective internally LOOKS just like one that is operating normally. The perception is that both are fine. If the transisitor is in a metal case that happens to be the output or "rail" of an amplifier then touching it in certain situations could get you quite a shock. But it LOOKS just like the next transistor that is not using the case as output. Thus perception is only the first layer of a series of observations that must be made to determine "reality".

However this example is not in the same frame of reference that you probably are refering to about the book. But I don't think today is really that much different than any other age. The "New" is always coming at us from the event horizon seemingly faster than we can assimilate it.

 

[remrf]

I use it with the 35/2.5 Skopar and a Canon 50mm f/1.8. It's a beautiful camera, the weight is just perfect and it's very nice to grip. My favourite shooter.

The viewfinder is very bright and clear, though I do agree with some people that the meter readout tends to be a bit bright, which can be a problem in low light. The easy solution is to remove the batteries.

The rangefinder baselength feels a little short, but in truth I've never had a problem focussing the 50/1.8 up close and wide open - I shoot indoors at night a lot.

I have a Bessa T on order, can't wait to get that! 😀

Thanks for the mini review. The bessa R is looking better and better to me as time goes by.

 

[simonankor]

You're welcome 🙂

 

[Sonnar Brian]

When I was 21, I bought my first Nikon F Photomic. It was 16 years old at the time. I still have it, rebuilt it twice since I bought it in 1978.

I gave a Nikon F Photomic T to a friend's teenage daughter. She used it all during High School and College, and is now in film making.

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

I use it with the 35/2.5 Skopar and a Canon 50mm f/1.8. It's a beautiful camera, the weight is just perfect and it's very nice to grip. My favourite shooter.

The viewfinder is very bright and clear, though I do agree with some people that the meter readout tends to be a bit bright, which can be a problem in low light. The easy solution is to remove the batteries.

The rangefinder baselength feels a little short, but in truth I've never had a problem focussing the 50/1.8 up close and wide open - I shoot indoors at night a lot.

😀

I use those exact same lenses, only I use them on a Canon P and I don't have to take the batteries out for low light photography 🙂

Wayne

 

[PhotoGeek]

When I was 21 I had a 49 Olds was shooting with a Nikon FE2. haha, I miss that olds.

That was 3 years ago, sold the olds to go to europe and kept the FE2 to go there with.
-peter

 

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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOps

I just realized I mixed books up. The book I was refering to was "Understanding Media" by Marshal McCluhan. Not "Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler which I think I also read but for the life of me do not rmember anything about at the moment. 😕

 

[Avotius]

heh i keep thinking that an m6ttl made in 2000 or whatever seems old, but then again im also just 21 and when I turned 20 I felt like I was over the hill

 

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heh i keep thinking that an m6ttl made in 2000 or whatever seems old, but then again im also just 21 and when I turned 20 I felt like I was over the hill

"Over the hill"? WHHHHY Boy, from where yer' standing you cain't even see the front side of the hill". 😀

 

[trittium]

Hey, I am 21, and I am not ignorant! Let's not age discriminate now.

 

[remrf]

Hey, I am 21, and I am not ignorant! Let's not age discriminate now.

You say you are 21 and I will not dispute this. Whether or not you are ignorant I cannot speak to as I do not know you nor the level of or the amount of nor the quality of your education.

However if you will please review the above posts you will see that I have not claimed that anyone was ignorant.

And I doubt that agreeing to the reality of the fact that I am 54 and you are not is in any way discriminatory. It is merely the recognition of a fact.

Chill dude. As far as I know we were all having fun here. :angel:

 

[simonankor]

I use those exact same lenses, only I use them on a Canon P and I don't have to take the batteries out for low light photography

Wow, what an amazing coincidence... I also use them on a Canon P, which I'm actually shooting more than the Bessa at the moment! 😀 Depends which way my mood takes me, I think 😉