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In Reply to: Any Canon guru's out there? Need some help with my old FTb posted by Rich Brkich on March 23, 2001 at 14:11:42:
Rich, generally Canon at FTB’s time (pre-FD optics) did not produce the optics worth to keep now. (They had some but not the one you mentioned). If it is important to you as memory of your younghood or as a gift from people who are not with you anymore then you may keep it. Photographically it is not interesting and I would suggest let it go. Now, when the digital it taking over the photography the values or those mechanical cameras going doing very dramatically unless they are REAL serious...The Cat
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The Camera and most of the lenses have too much personal value (all of it passed along to me by my father) to let them go. All the lenses are FD series lenses (except for that old Vivatar 85 to 205mm zoom lens) BTW.I don't haul this camera around much these days, as I do have a nice digital camera (a Canon sure shot s-10 2MegaPixel) and a cheapie point and shot that I use for tkaing pics of HiFi gear at shows or home for my web site (i.e. not a very demanding application for which these cameras work fine for me).
Rich Brkich
*** The Camera and most of the lenses have too much personal value (all of it passed along to me by my father) to let them go.I know what you feel. Approximately 10 years I made a creasy observation that among any camera lines there are the models that are capable to sponge the “spirit” of the users. You call it “personal value” I call it differently. I considered that those cameras were so brilliantly designed (requirements/functionality/implementation balance) that those cameras itself become a spiritual asset which was able to communicate with the surrounding. Most of the time they are properly build (my buddy John Curl should have hard attack right here…) with no extra functionalities and properly applied in the market (What the connection!) mechanical cameras. For example, to me they would be: Nikon FM, FM-2 (look: not F3…why?), Pentax’s K-1000, Minolta’s entire old “G” 7 line, Olympus OM-1, Canon F-1, practically all 4x5 and 8x10 cameras, most of the German Nazis cameras, Dresden’s Practical TL, Russian old Horizon, strangely practically non among the medium format except the old 220 or 330 twins…
Pretend you father left for you a worm-plastic supper-digital-gismo…Those cameras are excellent but… I do not thing it would survive the first trade show… no “personal value”. (perhaps some audio “designer” should think about it)
Unfortunately for you, the Canon doses not keep compliance between its newer and older optics…
Romy the Cat
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