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19 responses to “13 metal, mechanical 35mm SLRs”
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Well built, classic SLRs!
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Indeed! Built to the max.
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Happy enough to say I’ve handled almost all of these and even owned more than a few! There’s something about the precision “heavy metal” that modern cameras have yet to supercede…
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I very much appreciate the care in construction. However, they are so heavy!
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Have to laugh, you have a Canon FT here, and my brother found one at a church shop for a dollar and gave it to me. I picked it up and the first thing I though was: “What the hell, was I actually shaggin’ these around back in the day?”
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Nothing like a fine display of cameras!
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I have many more to show! :-)
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Wonderful portraits of mid-century mechanical excellence. The Retina Reflex is the oddball member of this group. Does your Reflex work?
The Nikkormat was my first serious camera. I took that rugged beast all over USA, Europe, and South America. It never failed me.
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That Reflex wasn’t fully functional but with a couple workarounds you could make images with it. It did lovely work!
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The SR-T 101 was the first advanced camera I got in 1972 after using Instamatics. I don’t have, nor have had the desire to use, the Kodak Reflex. As for the two Canons I substitute the FTb for them but have all the rest.
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The SR-T 101 and the FTb are both great choices!
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I didn’t like the Kodak at all ‘in the day’ Now it is very charming to use, with unique features.The lenses are superb,albeit with some limitations
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A very nice selection. Many years ago I was ready to purchase my first serious SLR- Pentax Spotmatic based on camera magazine reads. In those days camera sales persons often really knew their stuff and the Schaeffer’s guy talked me into a Nikkormat Ftn-a far superior choice for the kind of work I did. (There is a glimpse of the recreated store facade in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood) We drover past it while they were shooting-talk about nostalgic time travel!
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I had an FTn at one point. A fine camera! It had to be fun to drive past that recreated long-ago location.
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BTW, as an afterthought, glad to see Miranda on here. I had a Sensorex, and a Sensorex II, and loved both of them, altho the original Sensorex had shutter capping problems that never quite seemed to be resolved (no problem wit the II). I lament the loss of Miranda, a camera company that in the day was every bit as revered as Pentax, and who basically lost their way after being purchased by an American company. Somewhere on-line there’s a decent history, and I believe the screwing up of Miranda was a key event that made the Japanese put the kibosh on foreign companies buying Japanese companies.
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My Sensorex II had some shutter capping, which is why I didn’t keep it. I loved the camera otherwise.
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A delicious dose of vintage camera porn Jim! I needed this, thanks! 😀👍
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I aim to please!
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You an also count on me for camera porn!
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