Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree Larry. Until I went digital I took a Nikonos II fishing. They are good value and I liked the 35mm lens a lot. FD ----- Original Message ---- From: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com> To: Leica LUG <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, 7 June, 2011 16:17:51 Subject: [Leica] Drenched camera Peter Cheyne writes: "I usually take my Fujifilm Klasse on fishing trips. Yesterday I waded in water too deep for comfort and the camera got submerged. I took the battery out and hoped hanging it around my neck would let the sun dry it. The next day I removed the Neopan 400 B&W film. I had taken only about 11 shots, so cut away the remainder of the film. The Klasse winds all the film onto the free spool first, so exposed film is already in the can. The can is sitting on my desk. I'll send it in for developing one of these days. After sitting on my windowsill, the camera is in apparently perfect working order. However, I'm thinking of retiring it from fishing trips and using a mechanical camera instead. Maybe one of my Kodak Stereo Cameras loaded with Velvia." - - - - Peter, Why not spring for a used Nikonos II or III. These are small, entirely mechanical film cameras specifically designed to be waterproof down to 50 meters. Most old time camera stores or dive stores probably have a half dozen of so on the back shelves. I paid only a bit more than $100 for the last one I bought. The Nikon 35mm lens usually fitted to the Nikonos is of excellent quality and seems to be the perfect focal length for the fihsing very nice fishing pictures you show. Larry Z _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information