Not long after that time I would have jumped at an Exakta if I could have
afforded it - the WL finder was very attractive for macro use. But in 1970
it was a Kodak Instamatic 100 (no fancy flash cubes, just AG-1 bulbs), to be
replaced the following year by a Zenit E with the Industar 50/3.5 (a
semi-clone of the Leitz Elmar, almost the worst possible lens to use on an
SLR with manual focus on plain ground glass, since it had a fully manual
diaphragm). I should have gone for the Zenit B with Helios 58/2 - same
price, no meter, but with a preset diaphragm on the Biotar-clone Helios.
Piers
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From: Jim Nichols [mailto:jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 May 2012 19:34
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] what were you shooting in 1970?
Hi Dean,
About that time, I also tried an Exacta, because my eyes were requiring
glasses, which did not work well with my Leica IIIa. My Exacta is no longer
functional, but its little brother, the Exa, picked up in a pawn shop, still
works fine. It made a lot of holiday snapshots when my family was growing
up. Worked great with flash.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Dean Hansen" <hanse112@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] what were you shooting in 1970?
> 1970? Long time ago. I was 28 and using my father's Exakta VXIIa, the
> camera designed for left-handed people. Actually, he let me take this
> camera along on a solo camping trip out west in 1963. I had never used
> an SLR before, and, after getting all the way out to Utah from Minnesota
> without taking a single shot, I finally sat down at a picnic table in a
> camp ground and went through the instruction manual. In less than 20
> minutes I understood all the numbers: 1.9 2.8 4 5.6 8 11; T 25 50 100
> 250 500; 25 40 64 100 160 250. Looking back, I'm glad that I learned
> the rudiments of photography on a manual camera. That 20 minutes almost
> 50 years was time very well spent.
> Dean
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