leighton w wrote:
Thank you Joseph. Gus was a Great Pyrenees. This breed has been used through the ages for predator protection with livestock. They do not herd at all, they mostly sleep during the day and are up all night keeping guard.
Congrats on your Corgi. I have wanted one of those for some time. Which kind did you get?
Hi Leighton, Poki is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. He also made me realize that manual focusing a rangefinder when he's running is darn near impossible I saw that Nikon just came out with the Zfc and I like it a lot, so I might be selling my Leica M system to come back to Nikon (and back to using MFNG's)
Joseph. wrote:
Hi Leighton, Poki is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. He also made me realize that manual focusing a rangefinder when he's running is darn near impossible I saw that Nikon just came out with the Zfc and I like it a lot, so I might be selling my Leica M system to come back to Nikon (and back to using MFNG's)
He's a real good looking dog. That's the kind I'm interested in as well.
I like the looks of the new Zfc, but it lacks some features that I would want if I were to buy a new camera. No IBIS being a deal breaker for me.
Scott, thanks! The first four Nikon F lenses (3.5, 5, 10.5 and 13.5cm) released in 1959 had aperture (tick) marks to see the exact location of the stop. But Nikon decided pretty soon (within a year) that since the lenses had hard click stops at each aperture setting, the marks were not needed. So only the very early serial numbers on those lenses have the tick marks and some folks eventually got crazy about getting hold of them.
Interestingly the early Nikkors for Bronica also have those aperture tick marks, but no one seems to go ga ga over them, they pretty much sell for pennies
mp356 wrote:
Very nice Samy. Pardon my ignorance, but what does "tick mark" mean? The engravings on the lens barrel?
saph wrote:
Scott, thanks! The first four Nikon F lenses (3.5, 5, 10.5 and 13.5cm) released in 1959 had aperture (tick) marks to see the exact location of the stop. But Nikon decided pretty soon (within a year) that since the lenses had hard click stops at each aperture setting, the marks were not needed. So only the very early serial numbers on those lenses have the tick marks and some folks eventually got crazy about getting hold of them.
Interestingly the early Nikkors for Bronica also have those aperture tick marks, but no one seems to go ga ga over them, they pretty much sell for pennies
Took some shots of the beast and the lovely Nikkors yesterday. The last shot has the 45° prism finder attached which is really handy sometimes but makes the whole thing weigh in at 2.8kg
The prism finder makes it even more beast-y. That's quite some heft to carry around. The first pic looks like a new product shot - showing off the components of the beast
saph wrote:
The prism finder makes it even more beast-y. That's quite some heft to carry around. The first pic looks like a new product shot - showing off the components of the beast
Indeed. It’s handy for some shot’s but yeah, it’s super beast-y. I’m so used to the WL finder now that I rarely use it. Never thought I’d enjoy 6x6 and using a WL finder but I’m glad I went down this path. Thinking of getting a Minolta Autocord TLR at some point.
Interestingly, I discovered Nikon also made a lens for a TLR (Nikkor QC 75mm f3.5). The “Aires Reflex Z“ from ‘51 - ‘54. They’re quite rare it seems. An Excellent+++++ one is on eBay now which doesn’t appear to be too excellent at all
I saw that Nikon just came out with the Zfc and I like it a lot, so I might be selling my Leica M system to come back to Nikon (and back to using MFNG's)
