What have you just BOUGHT?

I have a Ricoh GR III but rarely use it because I don't like composing on a screen and don't really like the viewfinder. I have been looking for a small camera with an EVF. I decided to pick up a Panasonic G100 and it is really tiny even with the kit lens.

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Next to the Ricoh:

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Next to my main MF camera:

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With the standard lens.

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It landed, the FM is approx 1978, [23....] nice condition and still has film in it so there was hope.....Briefly and then discovered the cracked battery compartment but still doable in the future and I have meters so, as it was half expected no loss really, it winds on and fires nice and smooth, shutter speeds seem fine and the VF is clean and only has 2 specs of dust, I think it was looked after....The lens is lovely, just needs a good clean, pretty happy for the £75 it cost me and now completes the Black Set I wanted. [FM, FE, FG]

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Retro-Grouch said:
No, it's Dude logic (actually delivered by The Stanger) from The Big Lebowski. But on second thought, it might just encapsulate Marx's analysis of dog-eat-dog Capitalist dynamics.
If you mean Groucho Marxian logic, well then, of course!
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It is also in Robert Duvall's Angelo My Love spoken by a gypsy, or if you prefer Rom, who got caught stealing chickens. That was his comment about not coming away with lunch. It's a great line and true.
 
boojum said:
It is also in Robert Duvall's Angelo My Love spoken by a gypsy, or if you prefer Rom, who got caught stealing chickens. That was his comment about not coming away with lunch. It's a great line and true.
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I did not know this, and here I thought I knew everything! Our friend Google tells me that movie came first, in 1983, so well before Lebowski. The Coen brother are very sly and love to slip in obscure little cinema references like that. Sometimes you catch them, sometimes you don't!
 
Retro-Grouch said:
I did not know this, and here I thought I knew everything! Our friend Google tells me that movie came first, in 1983, so well before Lebowski. The Coen brother are very sly and love to slip in obscure little cinema references like that. Sometimes you catch them, sometimes you don't!
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It is a line you do not forget. The movie is remarkable. A kid lived in Duvall's building in NYC and the girls would call up to his window, "Angelo, my love." It is obscure but a great flick if you like the obscure. I tried to find a DVD but could not. I first saw it on PBS, shortly after the Spanish-American War. ;o)

Here: Angelo My Love (1983)
 
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lxmike said:
Sold my Pentax Lx a few year back, regretted it, well as I type another Lx is on its way!
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Like Minolta, Pentax was too late to the party with their 35mm pro-level system camera. The LX was every bit the equal of the offerings from Nikon or Canon; in my opinion, the LX was the best of the bunch! Glad to see you're re-kindling your romance. I mean, you're lxmike, after all... :)
 
Retro-Grouch said:
Like Minolta, Pentax was too late to the party with their 35mm pro-level system camera. The LX was every bit the equal of the offerings from Nikon or Canon; in my opinion, the LX was the best of the bunch! Glad to see you're re-kindling your romance. I mean, you're lxmike, after all... :)
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I've never tried an LX. I think I'd like it very much. They're hard to find it seems -- reliable?
 
KoNickon said:
I've never tried an LX. I think I'd like it very much. They're hard to find it seems -- reliable?
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They are although they need a service for the sticky mirror but the gaskets are getting hard to find and many repair shops cannot guarantee them being splash proof after service.
 
KoNickon said:
I've never tried an LX. I think I'd like it very much. They're hard to find it seems -- reliable?
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Reliable as any electronic camera of its era. My take on that issue is uncharacteristically non-retro: buy it, use it, enjoy it. Silica gel is your friend, if you live in a humid environment (like, oh, Hartford CT).
The most frequent mechanical problem with the LX is a sticky mirror. Not a difficult repair for any tech familiar with Pentax.
Of any 35mm camera I've used (and there have been very many!), the LX just felt better in my hands than any other, and that includes Leicas.
 
Retro-Grouch said:
Reliable as any electronic camera of its era. My take on that issue is uncharacteristically non-retro: buy it, use it, enjoy it. Silica gel is your friend, if you live in a humid environment (like, oh, Hartford CT).
The most frequent mechanical problem with the LX is a sticky mirror. Not a difficult repair for any tech familiar with Pentax.
Of any 35mm camera I've used (and there have been very many!), the LX just felt better in my hands than any other, and that includes Leicas.
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Edit: Pan beat me to the punch on the sticky mirror issue, but clearly it's well-known.
 
The sticky mirror issue isn't one of the mirror foam turning to goo, is it? Or something not user-serviceable? (And yes, Hartford can be very humid -- getting worse. :))
 
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