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In Reply to: Re: I would let it go posted by Rich Brkich on March 27, 2001 at 18:21:50:
*** 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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