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?