Phranquey
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- Feb 16, 2008
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- Dayton, OH
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Them was the days weren't they? All metal all manual gear made to last. Lenses you could take a tank out with. Wooden tripods that weighed near the same as a mini cooper or at least the wheel and tire from one. Developer and fixer fumes always frying the brain. That was photography by golly.
None of this mamby-pamby shrunk down.... plastic...carbon fiber...and computer stuff.
Have you still got the FM2 and MD12? I sold the bulk back a few years ago to a fellow that was needing one, but I still have the bodies and the MD1 & MD2. I always wanted an MD100, but they were way out of the ball park expensive.
I used to use a surveyors tripod...you wanna talk about something that would stop a mini...
Unfortunately, I sold the FM2 setup to help upgrade to the mamby-pamby digital world. I regret it now..that camera had personality that today's cameras don't seem to have anymore. I will probably pick up another one in the near future. I enjoy digital, but a lot of the older cameras seemed to have something about them....kinda like owning the old hot-rod from high school.