Museum Quality!

[GenEOS]

Man it really sucks to see all your gear on the Canon Museum site! It wasn't all that long ago I bought the stuff!! Too funny!

[IndyJeff]

Just wait until your out shooting some sporting event and the subject of film comes up and some young kid says, "Man you used to do this with film? I have never even taken a shot with a film camera."

Maybe you could offer to sell him a very collectable antique film camera at nearly the price you paid for it new.

[TonyKInTexas]

I feel the same way about computers. *sigh*

And I remember my Canon rangefinder camera and my first SLR, a Konica Autoflex T which I bought used (both of them - the Canon for $5 at a garage sale and the Konica from a local shop @ $125.).

Take care,

GenEOS wrote:
Man it really sucks to see all your gear on the Canon Museum site! It wasn't all that long ago I bought the stuff!! Too funny!

[morenoar]

OK, I know this is not the place for this. But what about when we make a statement about LPs or 8 tracks. HMM, that is when I feel OLD. Even Reel-to-Reel

[scottbergerphoto]

morenoar wrote:
OK, I know this is not the place for this. But what about when we make a statement about LPs or 8 tracks. HMM, that is when I feel OLD. Even Reel-to-Reel
Oh yes! Santana Abraxas on 8 Track. Memories!
Scott

[PacAce]

Oops! Don't look now but I think we have a bunch of old geezers in this forum....what am I talking about? I'm one of 'em old geezers myself. :) Here's a list of camera's I've used in my lifetime (those with **are ones I still have in my personal collection):

Kodak Brownie box camera with flash attachment
Kodak Instamatic 106 with cube flash
Olympus Pen half frame camera
Olympus Trip 35 full frame camera
Rollei Twin Lens Reflex **
Pentax Spotmatic (my first SLR) in college **
Pentax Spotmatic F**
Canon TLb **
Canon AE1
Canon T50**
Canon A1 **
Nimslo 3D camera **
Canon Elan IIe **
Konica AutoReflex TC ** (this was my brother's camera)

[TonyKInTexas]

I remember both and BETA vs VHS. :(

morenoar wrote:
OK, I know this is not the place for this. But what about when we make a statement about LPs or 8 tracks. HMM, that is when I feel OLD. Even Reel-to-Reel

[GenEOS]

Yes, but it seems that I used my A2E and even my AE-1P a lot longer than a few months before they were retired to the "museum". I bet the life spam of some "chu-clink to change tracks" 8-track players lasted longer !!!

I am not bitching though, I love buying new gear and spending my lifes savings!

[David Wild]

PacAce wrote:
Oops! Don't look now but I think we have a bunch of old geezers in this forum....what am I talking about? I'm one of 'em old geezers myself. :) Here's a list of camera's I've used in my lifetime (those with **are ones I still have in my personal collection):

Kodak Brownie box camera with flash attachment
Kodak Instamatic 106 with cube flash
Olympus Pen half frame camera
Olympus Pen full frame camera
Rollei Twin Lens Reflex **
Pentax Spotmatic (my first SLR) in college **
Canon FTb **
Canon AE1
Canon A1 **
Nimslo 3D camera **
Canon Elan IIe **
Konica TC ** (this was my brother's camera)


You late comers. :-))

I started serious photography with a Thrnton Pickard Junior Special which took 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch glass plates. It did have an instant return mirror, though; let go of the shutter release and the mirror fell back.

[chris maddock]

PacAce wrote:
Oops! Don't look now but I think we have a bunch of old geezers in this forum....what am I talking about? I'm one of 'em old geezers myself. :) Here's a list of camera's I've used in my lifetime (those with **are ones I still have in my personal collection):

Olympus Pen half frame camera
Olympus Pen full frame camera


What the heck's a Pen full-frame camera?
I collect Pens and to the best of my knowledge they are/were all half-frame. If there's a gap in my knowledge, do please enlighten me.

KRs
Chris

[jcsorensen]

A few years back I was in a graduate class on Information Systems and I asked everyone (all younger than me) if they knew what a vacuum tube was and nobody had even seen one. I remember when the old TV or radio at home stopped working you pulled out the suspect vacuum tube (nothing to do with a vacuum cleaner) and you went downtown to test the tubes and replace the bad one. I came home a related the story to my wife (a few years younger than me) and she also gave me this puzzled look like I was making it all up.

By the way, I still pull out my FtB every once and a while and shoot a roll through it--has a great 50 mm 1.8 lens--too bad mercury batteries are hard to find (for the internal light meter).

[billfranklin]

OK, so what does this make me? I shot my first football game with a 4x5 speed graphic. Back then, you were not a photographer unless you shot 4x5. (I still have that camera). I bet some of you don't even know what a speed graphic is.

They say that was the good ole days.

Right.

[PacAce]

chris maddock wrote:
PacAce wrote:
Oops! Don't look now but I think we have a bunch of old geezers in this forum....what am I talking about? I'm one of 'em old geezers myself. :) Here's a list of camera's I've used in my lifetime (those with **are ones I still have in my personal collection):

Olympus Pen half frame camera
Olympus Pen full frame camera


What the heck's a Pen full-frame camera?
I collect Pens and to the best of my knowledge they are/were all half-frame. If there's a gap in my knowledge, do please enlighten me.

KRs
Chris

Oops! Sorry for the lapse in memory there. I meant "Olympus Trip 35" which I believe is the full frame version of the Olympus Pen EE-S.

[pradeep1]

IndyJeff wrote:
Just wait until your out shooting some sporting event and the subject of film comes up and some young kid says, "Man you used to do this with film? I have never even taken a shot with a film camera."

Maybe you could offer to sell him a very collectable antique film camera at nearly the price you paid for it new.


That's why I am holding on to my stuff. To show my grandkids (heck my own kids), how film cameras looked. They will eyeball them like we eyeball old Brownie cameras.

Funny, heh?

[pradeep1]

PacAce wrote:
Oops! Don't look now but I think we have a bunch of old geezers in this forum....what am I talking about? I'm one of 'em old geezers myself. :) Here's a list of camera's I've used in my lifetime (those with **are ones I still have in my personal collection):

Kodak Brownie box camera with flash attachment
Kodak Instamatic 106 with cube flash
Olympus Pen half frame camera
Olympus Pen full frame camera
Rollei Twin Lens Reflex **
Pentax Spotmatic (my first SLR) in college **
Canon FTb **
Canon AE1
Canon A1 **
Nimslo 3D camera **
Canon Elan IIe **
Konica TC ** (this was my brother's camera)



You guys are a bunch of photographic geezers. Fortunately, you haven't given up and are now digital.

[vvizard]

n00bs! :-P I've been into this game like.. Forever! (*not*) If I really scratch my mind, I think I remember the magazines where talking about the upcoming 3 Megapixels prosumer cams. That was when I first started looking at cameras. My older sisters boyfriend was working for our newspaper, and for roughly a year, he (and her) lived at our parents house while searching for something of their own. Each and every day when he returned from work, he placed his cam on a table in our hallway. I passed it several days for almost half a year without even looking at it. Until one happy day, which probably changed my life forever =) I gave it a glance while passing by, and saw this LCD-screen on the back. So I asked: "What's the LCD for?" then he replied: "It's for reviewing images I shoot". "Oh... *thinking* I didn't know you could do that on non-digital cameras?". "Who said it wasn't digital?". "WHOLY MOTHER OF *******, You're telling me this is a digital camera????". "Yeah, it sure is. It's a $4000+ cam, and that lens is a $4000+ lens, you wanna try it out?"

Oh man did I? Techno-freak as I am, I didn't care if I really didn't have a interest in photography, but to play around with $8000 equipment is something I never let pass =) So from that day it took some years before I bought any camera myself. It was so much cooler to play around with the D1, even though it was Nikon ;)

So, from my "long life" in photography, I've owned "all" this gear:

Minolta DiMage 7i
Canon EOS 10D (still owning, and loving)

I don't remember the Beta vs VHS, cause it happened when I was a little to young to care about standards. And even if I did, I must say (quite proud of this) that I've never owned a VCR :) But I sure can tell my children (in some distant future) about the DVD+rw vs DVD-rw vs DVD-RAM vs Blue-ray war =)

But I do remember one thing though. I remember several happy years where there existed no MS Windows. And some day in (very) distant future, I hope to tell my children and in even more distant future, grandchildren how Windows looked like, how much it and it's creators sucked, and how a brave soldier in the fight of annihilating the system their dad/grandad had been =]

[chris maddock]

PacAce wrote:
chris maddock wrote:
PacAce wrote:
Oops! Don't look now but I think we have a bunch of old geezers in this forum....what am I talking about? I'm one of 'em old geezers myself. :) Here's a list of camera's I've used in my lifetime (those with **are ones I still have in my personal collection):

Olympus Pen half frame camera
Olympus Pen full frame camera


What the heck's a Pen full-frame camera?
I collect Pens and to the best of my knowledge they are/were all half-frame. If there's a gap in my knowledge, do please enlighten me.

KRs
Chris

Oops! Sorry for the lapse in memory there. I meant "Olympus Trip 35" which I believe is the full frame version of the Olympus Pen EE-S.

Phew, thanks for that - I was hoping that I didn't have yet more of them to buy, 26 (excluding "special" variants) is quite enough , although I've still a couple to go.

Yes, I reckon the Trip would be the equivalent of the EE-S, the EE models had fixed focus lenses whilst the EE-S introduced zone focussing (one person, three people or mountains, nice and simple)

KRs
Chris

[PacAce]

chris maddock wrote:
Yes, I reckon the Trip would be the equivalent of the EE-S, the EE models had fixed focus lenses whilst the EE-S introduced zone focussing (one person, three people or mountains, nice and simple)

KRs
Chris

Nice and simple???? Try telling that to a person who's never used a zone focusing camera. I remember when I had that camera, I asked someone to take a picture of me. I had the focusing set to "three people" because of the distance involved. He immediately questioned me on this and asked if it shouldn't be on the "one person" zone since I was the only one in the picture. I tried to explain to him that the pictures in the focusing zones were just icons to represent distances and that it was fine where I had set it. He reluctantly took my picture but insisted that I had it all wrong because I was alone in the picture and hence should be set to "one person", not "three people". :)

So, you have a whole collection of Pen camera's, huh? Those were really cute little cameras. Those cameras really turned me on to Olympus so if I had had the money back then to afford an Olympus SLR (I know I lusted over the OM series cameras enough time back then), I'd probably be a big Olympus fan right now, and probably playing with the E-1. But as fate would have it, that didn't happen so I'm now a very happy Canon fan, playing with something much better (IMHO). :D

Hmmm, wonder if they'll ever come out with a half-frame equivalent digital camera. Doh! I guess that's what those P&S cameras with the tinee-tiny sensors are, huh? :D

[chris maddock]

So, you have a whole collection of Pen camera's, huh? Those were really cute little cameras. Those cameras really turned me on to Olympus so if I had had the money back then to afford an Olympus SLR (I know I lusted over the OM series cameras enough time back then), I'd probably be a big Olympus fan right now, and probably playing with the E-1. But as fate would have it, that didn't happen so I'm now a very happy Canon fan, playing with something much better (IMHO). :D


I sure have - my aim is to get one of each model/variant if I can. The only acceptable exceptions (to me) are the specials, like the gold versions. In addition, I aim to get all the SLR lenses and all the range of accessories, basically everything. The ones that have eluded me so far are the rarer and/or more expensive ones, principally the Pen FV and the horrendously priced Pen-W. One of the latter is (or was) on eBay, with the bids approachig the price of a Canon 17-40L !!!
The one rule I have is that they must work, so I have had to get a few "duplicates" and cannibalise them to make one working example. Others have needed servicing, but I'm getting the hang of what works where now, so that's getting easier. I've still got a Pen S 2.8 that doesn't have a working "B" shutter setting and a 100mm lens with sticky aperture blades that I've got to have a look at, but I'll get around to it when (if) I can stop playing with the 10D ;-)

Actually, the first Olympus I got was an OM10, which I still have. A friend has a Pen EES which I was rather struck with - as a cash-strapped student with an eye on reduced film costs - so I got one as well and it all started from there.

KRs
Chris

[thomascanty]

TonyKInTexas wrote:
And I remember my Canon rangefinder camera and my first SLR

I remember my first rangefinder camera too. It wasn't a Canon, though. It's an Argus "brick" (including separate hand-held light meter) that my dad bought about 20 years before I was born. I still have it, but it doesn't work too well any more. The shutter tends to stick on long exposures. The light meter still works, though.

I also still have my mother's first camera, a Kodak Brownie, which I used for several years as a young'un. I doubt I could find film OR flash bulbs for that one any more..

[lightandlife]

When we settle down in Heaven, we will be meeting swarming groups of incoming newcomers who confess that they have not seen a film camera even in a museum, and who would be envious of you that once you relied on a film camer and remember its touch.

Men, look far beyond the future.

[Belmondo]

Anytime I feel like reminiscing about the good old days, I get one of my old Pentaxes out and admire it. I actually have about twenty of them, mostly screw-mounts and a couple early K-mounts. These things were pretty good in their day, and they still impart a certain feel of solid competence. They were really no-frill photographic tools which, in the right hands, could (and regularly did) produce first-rate pictures, and they have done so for decades. I’m sure there are still lots of them out there being used all the time. I’d say that’s high recommendation for a basic design that’s just about 50 years old. I wonder, how many of our 10d’s will still be in working in 2054?

[dn7elson]

I was just thinking about my old Pentax Spotmatic and the screw mounted 50mm lense the other day. Wondering whether I could find a suitable adapter to reverse mount the lense as a macro lense on my Digital Rebel.

Camera still works fine (bought it in 1968 ) except that 1/15 shutter speed sticks to about 1.5 seconds.

[SWPhotoImaging]

Yeah, well my first 35mm SLR, which I bought with money from my paper route so I could take photography in 10th grade (1971), was a Nikon Photomic F (already a museum piece at the time). This camera had a light meter, not through-the-lens, but it was mounted above the lens, on the housing of the prism, and for long focal length lenses (135mm in those days), you screwed a little tube over the "eye" to "focus" the light meter on the area that represented the angle of view of the lens. When not in use, this little threaded barrel was screwed onto a stub on the side of the prism housing for storage. The only thing I long for from those days if that excellent split-screen center focusing on the prism. I wish my 10D had that every time I have to manually focus and can't tell if I have "hit" it right.

[Canuck]

vvizard wrote:
n00bs! :-P I've been into this game like.. Forever! (*not*) If I really scratch my mind, I think I remember the magazines where talking about the upcoming 3 Megapixels prosumer cams. That was when I first started looking at cameras.

vvizard,
You opend your self up for this one and I couldn't resist...
I'd be willing to bet a good chunk of money in one of the following: Norwegian Kroner, US Dollars, or British pounds that there are people on this forum that have more time as a photog than you have walked the face of the Earth and probably me too. I have a 5 yr jumpstart on you in that sense. :)

[Belmondo]

And I'm older than the two of you put together, and I still can't take pictures worth a damn. I am, however, quite skilled at buying stuff. the 50mm f/1.0 is my latest acquisition. It's really going to look great sitting on the shelf in my closet.

Happy New Year.

Tom

[chris maddock]

dn7elson wrote:
I was just thinking about my old Pentax Spotmatic and the screw mounted 50mm lense the other day. Wondering whether I could find a suitable adapter to reverse mount the lense as a macro lense on my Digital Rebel.


You could get a filter thread reversing ring and some step-rings and reverse mount it on an EF lens for high magnification macro. A 50mm reversed on (for example) a 70-200 give pretty high magnification - 4:1 with the 70-200 set to 200 IIRC.

KRs
Chris

[chris maddock]

So, you have a whole collection of Pen camera's, huh? Those were really cute little cameras. Those cameras really turned me on to Olympus so if I had had the money back then to afford an Olympus SLR (I know I lusted over the OM series cameras enough time back then), I'd probably be a big Olympus fan right now, and probably playing with the E-1. But as fate would have it, that didn't happen so I'm now a very happy Canon fan, playing with something much better (IMHO). :D

If you (or any of the other reminiscers here) are interested, this weekend I finally got around to building a gallery of my collection with photos, background and info.
You can find it on my photography page at http://www.dslr.co.uk/photoindex.htm

KRs
Chris

[PacAce]

If you (or any of the other reminiscers here) are interested, this weekend I finally got around to building a gallery of my collection with photos, background and info.
You can find it on my photography page at http://www.dslr.co.uk/photoindex.htm

KRs
Chris

Very nice, Chris. Thanks for the trip down memory lane of the fun times I had with my Pen in high school. Baed on your camera collection, it looks like the Pen I had was the EES-2 gray.

[Longwatcher]

Lets see,
I can't even remember the first camera I used, but the first I owned was a Canon Av-1 (yes you read those letters right).

Old film cameras I still have include that Canon, A couple of polaroids left to me by roommates and a Hassleblad 500 EL/M (serial #0002).

As I have joked a bit I have used such antiques as the KS-87 and IRIS-III. Unfortunately one of those two is still in occasional use (but not by me). 8)

[chris maddock]

If you (or any of the other reminiscers here) are interested, this weekend I finally got around to building a gallery of my collection with photos, background and info.
You can find it on my photography page at http://www.dslr.co.uk/photoindex.htm

KRs
Chris

Very nice, Chris. Thanks for the trip down memory lane of the fun times I had with my Pen in high school. Baed on your camera collection, it looks like the Pen I had was the EES-2 gray.

Glad you enjoyed it.
I reckon the EES-2 is one of the three most usable models, the others being the EE-2 and EE-3. The EED is quite nice to use, as is the EM. However, that one won't get much of an airing - if the electrics give up I doubt I'll be able to get it fixed. I've had a look inside another non-working one that I have - the wiring is a real rat's nest ;-)
I'm picking up a D3 tomorrow so my missing count is down to 2 - the FV, which shouldn't be too hard to get, and the W, which is like hen's teeth and gets priced accordingly. The last one I saw on eBay went for the equivalent of a Canon 17-40 :-(

KRs
Chris