The Amazing Tale of the Canon SLR on Leica Owners Hands- are you in ?

The Amazing Tale of the Canon SLR on Leica Owners Hands- are you in ?

  • Yes I'm in ! ( please also reply to the topic so I know the country )

    Votes: 30 83.3%

  • No, not really interested

    Votes: 6 16.7%
  • Total voters
    36
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proenca

Proenca
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Hi there,

Got an idea and think this might be fun.

I have a old Canon SLR - T70 and a 50mm 1.4 lens. All manual. All worth the magic sum of 50 or 60 bucks.

Everything is in pretty much ok condition and I looked at it the other day and its not used for ages ( years actually ) . For film stuff I use my Leicas. For SLR stuff I use my D2h.

What if, I thought, if I the little old camera can travel the world ? And we see it ?

The idea is simple : a person receives the camera, put a roll of film of their choice, develop it and scan it. Then he pays the shipping and send it to the next user which does the same.

Film can be any of your choice, problems with customs should be ZERO since the camera + lens value today is worth around 40€ or something, so negligible.

I will put a map with a trace of where the camera is going and where it traveled from where to where and create a flikr group to share the pictures.

Its just a fun project.

So basically people will have to :

- buy the film
- shoot the film
- develop and scan the film
- upload to the flikr group the images
- box and pay the shipping to the next user

This is the camera ( although its a picture from KenRockwell site ) :
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What you guys think ?

Few things :

- only people that are RFF members for more than 60 days are eligible
- only people with more than 40 posts are eligble
- people must be willing to pay the shipping of the camera with tracking number

So...

Who's in ?

Please reply saying :

Name, Country of Origin

So I'm IN !

Proenca, PORTUGAL

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So far 22 photographers joined in and the more the merrier !

Here is a map of the route so far

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A very kind offer Pronenca.

I was part of Pass the RF III, the camera has been in the postal system from me to Singapore for months...

I'm out of this one, but perhaps keep it around Europe first?
 
It really depends ; if I end up with 10 europeans and 100 USA people, will try to combine continents first ( Europe then USA, then etc ).

I belive will be easy to get the thing around since the value its pointless, so no problem with customs.
 
I have never used a Canon SLR camera :D Sounds like fun ! BW self-developing (and scanning) OK ?

EDIT: Sapporo, Japan
 
maddoc said:
I have never used a Canon SLR camera :D Sounds like fun ! BW self-developing (and scanning) OK ?

EDIT: Sapporo, Japan
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Sure, home developing an scanning its more than Ok !

No drumscans or anything required, just sharing what you done with the week or so that you had the camera.

And I would be curious to see what you will do with the camera, I follow your photoset in flikr with great interest :)
 
I'm in! London, England.

Reckon it would be worth doing a bit of optimal route finding to minimise the total shipping costs (heuristic based on distance, oceans crossed, continents traversed). Would probably mean a continent by continent one-way round journey. And maybe a suggested time limit per participant of 10 days from receipt to shipping? And maybe a standardised format for the resulting galleries? Full contact sheet, top-five edit, favourite shot?

Wait a minute...this wasn't my idea! Getting carried away, there! Keen, either way.
 
Robin Harrison said:
I'm in! London, England.

Reckon it would be worth doing a bit of optimal route finding to minimise the total shipping costs (heuristic based on distance, oceans crossed, continents traversed). Would probably mean a continent by continent one-way round journey. And maybe a suggested time limit per participant of 10 days from receipt to shipping? And maybe a standardised format for the resulting galleries? Full contact sheet, top-five edit, favourite shot?

Wait a minute...this wasn't my idea! Getting carried away, there! Keen, either way.
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Hi Robin,

For all means, please share some ideas !

I'm trying to see how many people are in and then organise by continent the trip and also collecting the adresses of everyone.

Idea is : Europe -> USA -> Japan - > Australia

I also though about a time limit ( 1 week to 10 day seems reasonable ) per person to take the roll.

Dont know yet if should ask the top 3 or the best picture of the roll to each person.

I think I will let this topic open for a week or so and then start to put more clearly the rules and the destinations !
 
I'll participate, and after I use the camera, I'll send it to the next chump in a foreign country and mark the customs form "rare prototype camera, value $14,000.00".

Or maybe I'll even keep the Canon, and mail some broken plastic Instamatic with the same customs valuation, just to see who has a sense of humor.
 
I like the idea very much, but as I am more a reader than a writer, I dont have sufficient post numbers here..

If you would still take me: I am located in Vienna, Austria and I would love to participate!
 
August Derleth said:
I'll participate, and after I use the camera, I'll send it to the next chump in a foreign country and mark the customs form "rare prototype camera, value $14,000.00".

Or maybe I'll even keep the Canon, and mail some broken plastic Instamatic with the same customs valuation, just to see who has a sense of humor.
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August, well you do have a sense of humor indeed.

Now, of course theres that problem - but it's a risk that I am willing to take ; afterall, the camera is gathering dust and its not used ; selling it I would barely make 30 or 40 euros out of it...

So hence the idea of this project.

Sure you can do all that. But hence the minimum forum registration and posts, so that can be verifiable that its a known user and it will comply to the rules.

And for those users, honor in the forum is more important than 30 or 40 euros.. and as honorable persons they are, see this as a fun challenge.

Ultimatly, I want to finish the project and have the camera returned. Or keep going back and forth until eternity would be nice.

But yes, a single person with bad intentions can ruin this chain, like you say - but if we rely only with fear of imbecils, the world wont move on. Neither fun projects will happen.
 
Sounds good, I'm in.
Maine, USA

Edit: Is the idea to only use the 50/1.4 that comes with it or can we break out our own glass? I'm fine with either, just curious.
 
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