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good to hear b2!
the sp does look good to me as well but i think this s2 is gonna put a smile on my face.
joe
the sp does look good to me as well but i think this s2 is gonna put a smile on my face.
joe
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hey brian, do you have a shutter timing tester?
joe
joe
rbsinto
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Steven Gandy's site, Cameraquest www.cameraquest.com is also a very ggod resource on the Nikon rangefinders
sirius
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If only I had as many passionate relationships with women as Joe has with cameras! People often admonish us who love gear by saying, "Quit obsessing and go take pictures!" Well, anyone who has even had a taste of Rangefinder fever can tell you that there is more to these cameras than just taking pictures. I think many of us do dream about playing with all these wonderful tools that have such history and haptics. It's amazing that they can still so easily be used 60 years after they were made! I'm actually jealous that Joe has had so many lovely cameras wander through his life...
VinceC
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This picture from the site above shows why I prefer Nikon RFs over the modern SLRs, film or digital. Size natters.
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I'm actually jealous that Joe has had so many lovely cameras wander through his life...
have i told you how many times i've been married?
have i told you how many times i've been married?
ferider
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Athena said:
Never mind.
Athena said:
It is "compatible" with Contax wide angle and slow normal lenses with enough DOF to hide any difference in RF throw. The Leica M mount was developed and patented with the same philosophy. And, BTW, Nikkors on Leicas was quite popular when Nikkors were introduced in the US (Duncan, etc.)
my "non-Leica German glass" ? I did not use that term. I have only one non-Leica German lens and that is a 50/1.5 Opton that I use with adapter. I have a few non-Leica, non-German lenses though
I use Leicas, among others, because there are more lenses available in LTM and M mount.
My personal opinion is that by being loyal to a brand like this (e.g., calling yourself "Nikonian") limits your horizon dramatically
(no surprise, I guess). Being "anti-Leica" is just as silly as being "pro-Leica". Leitz is just a company and so is Nippon Kogaku.Let me quote you from another thread, a quote I agree with:
Athena said:
Roland.
PS: 2 examples of my non-Leica LTM mount lenses:
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NIKON KIU
Did you say Nippon Kogaku
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One has to admit the 10.5 looks like it belongs on that camera!!
OK back to topic:
Nikon Historical society's links:
http://www.nikonhs.org/links.html
Don Ferrario's amazing list of links!(also accessible on NHS links)
http://www.nikonlinks.com/
From the "photography in Malaysia" site:
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/htmls/models/htmls/rangefinder.htm
Kiu
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My Opinion is a little diffrent than Roland's....but all is respected.:angel:ferider said:My personal opinion is that by being loyal to a brand like this (i.e., calling yourself "Nikonian") limits your horizon dramatically
Roland.
One has to admit the 10.5 looks like it belongs on that camera!!
OK back to topic:
Nikon Historical society's links:
http://www.nikonhs.org/links.html
Don Ferrario's amazing list of links!(also accessible on NHS links)
http://www.nikonlinks.com/
From the "photography in Malaysia" site:
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/htmls/models/htmls/rangefinder.htm
Kiu
ferider
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NIKON KIU said:
This is my black 8.5, Kiu. The 10.5 is on the M3 !
Cheers,
Roland.
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can i clarify for all my friends here, i am not anti leica.
tho the mindless adolation that it sometimes receives has made it easy for me to appreciate other brands more.
and yes, i know it's not leica's fault.
and yes, i sorta like the different drummer in most things...
joe
tho the mindless adolation that it sometimes receives has made it easy for me to appreciate other brands more.
and yes, i know it's not leica's fault.
and yes, i sorta like the different drummer in most things...
joe
NIKON KIU
Did you say Nippon Kogaku
ferider said:
This is my black 8.5, Kiu. The 10.5 is on the M3 !
Cheers,
Roland.
Good....
I am sorry, I guessed, my server @ work blocks certain sites,especially those that are labled "personal storage" sites. So I saw the post but guessed which picture you included...I thought it was the same picture you showed us a while back!
Now I can't wait to get home to see what you're showing us..(mounted on the M3)!!
Kiu
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some very good reading, thanks again guys.
VinceC
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>>You probably would not want to shoot with my E3.
http://www.nikonweb.com/<<
Nope. Never again. In 1998, my newspaper decided to go all digital. We'd been using a several NC2000s for special assignments the previous three or four years, and I rather enjoyed them despite the size and weight. The heavy black mask in the prism, which denoted the sensor size, was quite a bit like shooting a rangefinder camera. It took all my AI'd Nikkors, and I could shoot it an manual mode using Sunny-16. It was a big camera, but in a way that made some sense. Carrying one body and some prime lenses made you think about your pictures. My 50/1.4 became a 75/1.4 portrait lens. The bulk of the camera what compensated by the fact that my 135/3.5 was suddenly a very long telephoto.
But the newspaper couldn't afford fifteen NC2000s. Instead, they bought a bunch (what, half the production run?) of Nikon E3s. It handled, I suppose, more like a Speed Graphic press camera than an SLR. (I've never used a Speed Graphic). Just a big oafish thing which grew ridiculous once you put on any kind of telephoto. And I've spent my photographic life, such as it is, in and around f/1.4, so the prism that destroyed fast apertures was stunning to me. It was, I suppose, a necessary camera. It showed the world that there is definitely a worse alternative to a reduced sensor size, and that achieving the 35mm frame on a digital sensor was going to be hugely problematic and fraught with compromise (Leica take note).
This was a hateful camera for photojournalism. That my newspaper's management bought it without input from the photojournalists was a contributing factor to my getting a new job the next year.
http://www.nikonweb.com/<<
Nope. Never again. In 1998, my newspaper decided to go all digital. We'd been using a several NC2000s for special assignments the previous three or four years, and I rather enjoyed them despite the size and weight. The heavy black mask in the prism, which denoted the sensor size, was quite a bit like shooting a rangefinder camera. It took all my AI'd Nikkors, and I could shoot it an manual mode using Sunny-16. It was a big camera, but in a way that made some sense. Carrying one body and some prime lenses made you think about your pictures. My 50/1.4 became a 75/1.4 portrait lens. The bulk of the camera what compensated by the fact that my 135/3.5 was suddenly a very long telephoto.
But the newspaper couldn't afford fifteen NC2000s. Instead, they bought a bunch (what, half the production run?) of Nikon E3s. It handled, I suppose, more like a Speed Graphic press camera than an SLR. (I've never used a Speed Graphic). Just a big oafish thing which grew ridiculous once you put on any kind of telephoto. And I've spent my photographic life, such as it is, in and around f/1.4, so the prism that destroyed fast apertures was stunning to me. It was, I suppose, a necessary camera. It showed the world that there is definitely a worse alternative to a reduced sensor size, and that achieving the 35mm frame on a digital sensor was going to be hugely problematic and fraught with compromise (Leica take note).
This was a hateful camera for photojournalism. That my newspaper's management bought it without input from the photojournalists was a contributing factor to my getting a new job the next year.