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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:08:37 -0800, John Celio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Pentax family: > http://www.newpixel.net/special/pentax_family.jpg > Sorry it's such a lousy picture. It's hard to take good photos when you're overcome by emotion (new family addition and all...) That's a nice looking lineup. I think a Pentax 110 would be cool to own. Congrats on the big bouncing baby! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Congrat's John. I think you'll like playin with the 6x7. Try a rool of chrome:-) I have the metered finder,but seldom use it,so if you have a decent handheld,i doubt you'll miss it. Dave Brooks > Long story short, we drove down to Monterey and I walked out of Camera West > with my own 6x7, a 105 2.4 lens and a roll of Tri-X 400 to play with. Sean, > the fellow who helped me, was really great to work with, and got me all set > up to shoot. Only thing I really wanted but couldn't afford was a metered > finder, but I can get by without that for now. I was grinning for the rest > of the day; no buyer's remorse for this Pentax nut! > John Celio
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- Original Message - From: "John Celio" Subject: Whee! (Enablement!) Long story short, we drove down to Monterey and I walked out of Camera West with my own 6x7, a 105 2.4 lens and a roll of Tri-X 400 to play with. Nice one, on the 6x7. I presume form the look of it that it is the MLU version. Hopefully it is. If you decide to buy the meter prism in the future, if you buy used, make sure it comes with the speed ring that allows shutter speed adjustment with the prism in place. Lots of sellers will try to sell it as a separate item, but it does come with the prism, and should be resold with the prism. William Robb
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On 4/3/05, John Celio, discombobulated, unleashed: >Long story short, we drove down to Monterey and I walked out of Camera West >with my own 6x7, a 105 2.4 lens and a roll of Tri-X 400 to play with. Oh God, you'll have stirred up the Brotherhood now. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
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> My Pentax family: > http://www.newpixel.net/special/pentax_family.jpg Good for you, John. The funny thing is, that 6x7 is not much bigger than a Nikon or Canon top of the line 35mm SLR! j -- Juan Buhler http://www.jbuhler.com blog at http://www.jbuhler.com/blog
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Congratulations. Great stuff. BTW: Do you ever use your 110? Any pics? Jens Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: John Celio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 5. marts 2005 07:09 Til: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Emne: Whee! (Enablement!) Ok, so yesterday a coworker of mine and I drove down to Monterey to visit a really upscale camera shop there, Camera West. By upscale I mean there was virtually no digital or general consumer stuff there -- it was almost all high-end professional equipment, including a large boutique dedicated to Leica. Oh man, it was beautiful! Just about everyone on this list would be drooling at all the beautiful stuff they had there. Anyway, according to my coworker, this particular shop was one of the few he'd been to in Northern California that had Pentax 6x7 equipment, so we headed down there to visit the shop and spend some time in Fort Ord, an abandoned military base. Before leaving, as luck would have it, the ME and 40mm pancake lens I won on eBay showed up! The body needs a little work, but is in decent shape. The lens needs that little speck removed. Both of these issues I think I can do on my own with a little help from my shop's technician. Long story short, we drove down to Monterey and I walked out of Camera West with my own 6x7, a 105 2.4 lens and a roll of Tri-X 400 to play with. Sean, the fellow who helped me, was really great to work with, and got me all set up to shoot. Only thing I really wanted but couldn't afford was a metered finder, but I can get by without that for now. I was grinning for the rest of the day; no buyer's remorse for this Pentax nut! My Pentax family: http://www.newpixel.net/special/pentax_family.jpg Sorry it's such a lousy picture. >From biggest to littlest, not including my *istD (had to take the picture with *something*): new used 6x7, ZX-30, MX (with recently aquired 50mm 1.2), ME w/40mm, Auto110. In the background are my computer, Minolta Dimage Scan Dual III, my favorite beer, and assorted other things. Anyway, Fort Ord was a lot of fun, but that's for a future post. Right now, I just wanna shoot! (: John Celio P.S.: I am going to have way too much equipment to play with tomorrow at the NorCal PDML gathering! -- http://www.neovenator.com http://www.newpixel.net AIM: Neopifex "Hey, I'm an artist. I can do whatever I want and pretend I'm making a statement."
