Time to put away the toy cameras and get out the serious metal

[Vickko]

Time to put away the toy cameras and get out the serious metal.

I just looked at my fridge, and there are way too many rolls of 120 and 220 on the shelves.

I think it is going to be a Hasselblad / Rollei / Voigtlander / Zeiss Super Ikonta winter.



Vick

 

[Thomas78]

This sounds great, but aren't you anxious to take a folder out into the cold weather?

 

[Vickko]

Oh, didn't think of that. So maybe the Bessa II and Super Ikonta will only go to Christmas parties.

Thank you for pointing that out for me.



Vick

 

[Frank Petronio]

Why wouldn't you take a camera out into cold weather?

 

[-doomed-]

Why wouldn't you take a camera out into cold weather?

I agree with this, why not?
Take it out and use the damn thing.

 

[Vickko]

Bellows freezing and cracking

 

[ray*j*gun]

I found that out the hard way!

 

[Roger Hicks]

I hope you're really happy with your new Alpa.

What on earth is a 'serious' camera? Expensive? (I'd recommend Alpa.) Heavy? (Try De Vere.) Complicated? (Try Exakta.)

Cheers,

R.

 

[Frank Petronio]

Bellows freezing and cracking? Never heard of that one before, at least not with any view cameras.

Good thing nobody told Perry-Amundsen-Scott-Sella and other 19th-Century polar and mountain explorers with bellows cameras!

 

[Pete B]

Good thing nobody told Perry-Amundsen-Scott-Sella and other 19th-Century polar and mountain explorers with bellows cameras!

Their cameras were new
Pete

 

[Pablito]

?
Plenty of toy cameras take 120 film...

 

[nikon_sam]

I just looked at my fridge, and there are way too many rolls of 120 and 220 on the shelves.Vick

Or...you could send all that film to me and stay inside where it's nice and warm...

 

[crawdiddy]

?
Plenty of toy cameras take 120 film...

Yes, in fact. Isn't Holga the most toy-ish of all cameras?