OK, it' looks very, very nice. But what the heck are you going to do with it?
Are you going to shoot 35mm film and get it developed? Do you have a
projector? Is it now a conversation piece?
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Subject: [OM] Comrades. (OT)
From: R.Jackson <jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:07:14 -0700
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
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>I recently bought a Russian Konvas 1M off the dreaded auction site. The
>seller was in Seoul and had no feedback history, so I was skeptical. I
>emailed him and told him as much and he suggested we use escrow.com to
>hold the money until I had the camera and was happy with it. It arrived
>this afternoon and I'm frankly amazed. This is a 50-year-old Russian
>35mm motion picture camera kit with five magazines and six prime lenses
>and it looks like it's never been used. The rubber around the
>viewfinder seems to have deteriorated and been sliced off, but other
>than that it's like I'm holding a brand new camera. There's even an
>owner's manual and a booklet of lens tests that have been signed-off by
>the tester and then stamped with a government seal. For $680 I think I
>did alright. Here are some (crappy digital) photos of it all that I
>shot in the back yard a little while ago.
>
>http://www.conventicle.com/konvas01.jpg
>http://www.conventicle.com/konvas02.jpg
>http://www.conventicle.com/konvas03.jpg
>http://www.conventicle.com/konvas04.jpg
>http://www.conventicle.com/konvas05.jpg
>
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