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Subject: [OM] Re: WTS 50mm Mamiya Lens
From: ScottGee1 <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:29:45 -0500
LOL, again!

Actually, I just recently decided to sell my Fujica 690BL so I do
indeed have experience with 6x9 trannies.  With 4x5 as well, but those
memories are not so clear in that they originated in the early '70s. 
If I had my druthers AND my own lab, I'd prefer to shoot everything on
a tripod with at least 4x5.

It's interesting to hang out in one of the LF forums for a while. 
When other people ooh and aah over the pix in National Geographic, the
LFers lament the 'lack of sharpness' and 'golf ball size grain'.

At the recent Photorama show I met a guy who was assisting one of the
dealers. Told me he stopped selling his own gear years ago because he
too often regretted letting things go.  Having owned multiple copies
of certain items, I could certainly relate.

Cheers!/ScottGee1


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:02:59 +0000, Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I really hope I don't come across as a gear braggart.  The original and still 
> most-used Crown Graphic I bought new in 1962.  All the other stuff came 
> gradually over the course of 50 years.  The only "new" stuff I have bought in 
> the last few years was the 100/5.6 APO-Symmar just before Schneider 
> discontinued it (it may well be the best lens I've ever used) and the 120/5.6 
> APO-Symmar I got on *Bay a few months back.  I didn't even list all the other 
> lenses I don't use much that also fit the 6x9 Graphics, but they all came to 
> me at a rate of less than one a year, most as bargains or in trades.  Now 
> that I'm a "senior," it's all just turned into a veritable plethora of stuff, 
> an actual glut of gear, trapped in overflowing cabinets by my reluctance to 
> sell any of it.  That's going to change soon, though.
> 
> Might I inquire?  Have you ever beheld the wonder of a 6x9 Velvia tranny, 
> been awed by the detail in an 11x14 print from 6x9 Provia 100F?  Then let me 
> tell you what you're missing and offer you an opportunity to acquire some 
> marvelous equipment.  I can make you a real good deal, particularly if you've 
> got cash.  Don't let the age of the gear or of the seller deter you from this 
> fantastic, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own some of the best.  What 
> digital doo-dad you might spend your hard-earned money on today will be worth 
> a fiddler's fart in 50 years?  Why, anything made today will have been in a 
> landfill for at least 40 years by then.  But his equipment has endured for 
> half a century and will only appreciate with each passing day, and you will 
> appreciate it with each passing day as it takes you into the realm of 
> photographic excellence.  Act now!  Supplies are limited.
> 
> I also take PayPal, postal money orders and cashier's checks.  :-)
> 
> Walt
> 
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
> 
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: ScottGee1 <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > LOL!!  Why do I feel like I'm back in the high school gym class locker
> > room . . . ?
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:39:24 +0000, Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Well, you got me on the format size, but I've got two 6x9 Crown Graphics, 
> > > plus
> > three 6x9 Century Graphics, with Schneider 47/5.6 and 65/5.6 Super Angulons,
> > 80/2.8 and 100/2.8 Zeiss Planars, 100/5.6, 120/5.6 and 150/5.6 Schneider
> > APO-Symmars, plus a 135/4.5 Xenar and a 180/4.5 Rodenstock Rotelar.  I can 
> > swing
> > and tilt, too, just not as much as you.  :-)
> > >
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