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Post by John B on May 23, 2008 10:16:53 GMT -5
I've got a weakness for old and offbeat cameras (my $20 Holga, my swing-lens panoramic, my Russian folder camera). Of course, for my non artsy-fartsy camera, I have my point-and-shoot digital that does all right (Leica lens!). But I like working with the limitations and challenges a stripped-down camera presents. So I want to buy a new offbeat/weird camera. My choices are: An Argus A, kind of a Leica knockoff made in the US. The first affordable 35mm camera. This camera brought 35mm photography to the masses. It takes pictures like this: A zeroimage pinhole camera: It takes pictures like this:
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Post by sekhmet on May 23, 2008 12:12:20 GMT -5
you weirdo. You and my ex would get along. He has a trunk full of aging European machinery - but I have the Leica (1957), the Rolleiflex and the Linhoff. and a Contaflex - which was a beauty. I'm so glad I'm shooting digital now.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on May 25, 2008 21:24:15 GMT -5
The pinhole is a thing of beauty.
I want it. Mike
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Post by Cornflake on May 26, 2008 16:03:49 GMT -5
There's something about the pinhole that grabs me, too.
Out in the storeroom, somewhere, I have my dad's old Leica.
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