Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My favorite camera from that era was the Nikon FA. Small but rugged and the first camera with matrix metering, although they called it AMP back then. Only feature missing was diopter correction but it would take the FM/FE type diopters. Still have mine. Just can't part with it although I rarely use it. Jim Laird On Mar 4, 2012, at 11:44 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > The FM Nikon was just a tad bigger than an OM-1. A very successful camera. > It was Maitani who figured out that if your format was only 24x36mm what's > the point of your camera body weighing more than a twin lens Rolleiflex? > And > caught the entire camera industry with its pants down. > Now ironically last week they bring the OM body is back in digital ... With > a puny 4/3's sensor in it. Yoshihisa Maitani is turning over in his grave. > Or laughing. Probalby Both. > > The Pentax Pentax ME was a tad smaller than an Om-1. > Seemingly exactly the size of a Barnack! > But none ever fell from the sky near me so I could shoot with it. > I was praying to the wrong photo god. > > -- > Mark R. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ > > >> From: Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 21:49:35 -0600 (CST) >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] What if digital hadn't come along? >> >> On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 James Laird <digiratidoc at gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Alan, >> >>> Ever try the F100? Bigger than an OM but a lot smaller than the F4/F5. >>> Fabulous viewfinder and compatible with nearly all Nikon FX >lenses. My >>> favorite film SLR. >> >>> Jim Laird >> ============================================================================== >> ==================== >> I had no reason to. I only used Nikons at work, where they were >> state-owned. >> All my SLR equipment was Olympus after I gave my brother my Pentaxes. I >> own a >> Nikon F now because my uncle gave me all his hobby equipment before he >> died. >> Bigger than an OM is too big. >> >> >> Alan >> >> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer >> UPAA POY 1978 >> University Information Technology Services >> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee >> amr3 at uwm.edu >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ >> >> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate >> for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information