tunalegs
Pretended Artist
A very durable Chinese SLR Mingca S-201.You don't see it everyday.
With a biotar clone lens? Intriguing.
zhang xk
Well-known
Chris101
summicronia
My favorite beer.
julianphotoart
No likey digital-phooey
ronnies
Well-known
Actually I find the MB21 more comfortable as it's smaller in diameter than the MB20 since the grip part only has to hold 3 rather than 4 AA batteries. I have small hands though.
Ronnie
tunalegs
Pretended Artist
Yep. A very sharp one.
I do hope we get to see sme results from it.
clayne
shoot film or die
azzurri
Member
52 years old. You don't need anything else.
52 and still as beautiful as the day she came out. What's the lens on it?
rwintle
Scientist by day
Here's my no-street-cred-whatsoever entry: Pentax MZ-50, with rather icky kit 35-80mm and not-much-better 100-300. Now long gone, it served us well for a number of years and was dead simple to use.
The old camera. by Richard Wintle, on Flickr
The old camera. by Richard Wintle, on Flickr
clayne
shoot film or die
Yep! I adore the fact that this 50+ year old piece of technology has no problem whatsoever cranking out quality photographs. Lens is a Nikkor-N Auto 35/1.4.
Kirbot
Established
Greyscale
Veteran
AlwaysOnAuto
Well-known
FE2, Nikkor 300mm f4, MD-12
lam
Well-known
I got.. some Nikon F gear the other day..
Nikon F2 with Nikkor 35mm f1.4
Nikon F2 with Nikkor 35mm f1.4
gb hill
Veteran
clayne
shoot film or die
Paulbe
Well-known
clayne--an outstanding rig!
Will last you forever, with a little care.
One of the smoothest feeling film advances, ever.
Paul
Will last you forever, with a little care.
One of the smoothest feeling film advances, ever.
Paul
julianphotoart
No likey digital-phooey
Ok. That makes sense. Still, a pretty well made and quirky example of an M42. After my original post earlier I googled and found an old print ad for the AZ-1 that touted it to be the first to be sold with a kit zoom! A dubious distinction.
oftheherd
Veteran
I didn't recall the Electro AX being offered quite that early. I didn't recall them being available about 1974/75 when I bought my Fuji ST 901. It might have been and I just decided on the Fuji because of the open aperture AE metering. I think when I was deciding on the Fuji, Nikon had their EL out which was also open aperture AE.
I don't recall when the AZ1 came out, but it was not the first with AE metering, nor the first Fuji with AE metering. That was the ST 901. I don't recall now who had open aperture AE first. It might have been Nikon, but was probably one of the 'lesser' brands like Chinon or some such.
Typically the big camera makes didn't come out with innovations first, or in their flagship cameras. Lesser makes would experiment with it first and when it became popular, the big names would then incorporate it as well.
The AZ1 was a good camera and had a dedicated flash and a motor winder available. I expect they are getting harder to find in working order. The AZ1 kept the silicon Blue Cell (SBC) for metering. Fuji said it had better light response, and less memory problems. Gossen evidently thought so too, as they went to an SBC in their Luna Pro SBC.
Use the camera and enjoy it if you can. The Fuji glass is some of the best in the world, but with the M42 mount, you can use a lot of other lenses, including the Pentax M42 lenses of the time.
tsiklonaut
Well-known
Now I'm a proud owner of Pentax 67ii. It was DP2 Merrill or this and now after few days out with the beast I think I've made the smartest decision in my life
Two work horses and an accountant (erm, I mean a documending camera).
Who said SLRs are lardy???
Cheers,
Margus
Two work horses and an accountant (erm, I mean a documending camera).
Who said SLRs are lardy???
Cheers,
Margus