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Re: [OM] Polaroid NPC backs (was: Olympus Speed-Magny)

Subject: Re: [OM] Polaroid NPC backs (was: Olympus Speed-Magny)
From: Frank van Lindert <lindertv@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 07:50:16 GMT
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998 01:04:27 EDT, PCACala@xxxxxxx wrote:

>Frank writes:
>
>> Anything above $250-300 for these backs (used) is too much, I think. . .
>> The images are consequently bad.... but of course they are indeed 
>> for proofing only.
>
>Interesting.  Good thing I never shelled out the bucks for poor quality.
>
>Looks like every dealer is asking over $300.  $329 is the lowest I find.  Time
>to get real, since buyers are at or below $251.
>
>Gary Reese
>Las Vegas, NV
>
Correction, Gary: at or below $301, depending on quality... So supply
and demand must be able to meet (in a narrow bandwidth, I admit)

But it's not only the market situation which led me to my remark on
the value - I haven't made that clear enough in my original posting. 

I simply think the quality of the pictures is so bad. They are 24x36mm
images in a large and expensive sheet of Polaroid paper. You can see
the poor resolution, caused by the separate optic fibers - there are
only a few thousand of them in this area, I guess. It is like watching
a monitor or TV-screen from a few inches distance....

Really the only thing it is good for is checking the modeling and
lighting of a picture. I use my viewfinder for the first thing, and my
experience for the second. I compensate for lack of the latter by
simply taking more exposures with different
lighting/aperture/exp.time.

Frank.

Frank van Lindert
Utrecht Holland.



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