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Subject: [OM] Re: Trip to the big city - looking at cameras
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:16:02 +1300
Moose wrote

> Ever use a 50s Praktica with waist level finder? What an impossible 
> camera! I can't see a damn thing! Focusing is a joke!

Tsch Tsch Tsch. That's my first 35mm camera you are slanging. :-))

Those waist level finders had a magnifying glass to help focus.

For me, graduating from a Kershaw King Penguin on a student's wage (which 
I had in forestry in the 1950's) the Practika FX was a dream and I took many 
fine shots including kodachromes that I still have in great condition. Had it 
not been stolen from my room while in college I'd probably still have it. 
Combined with a Weston Master exposure meter, it was a great way to learn 
35mm photography.

Yes, OM's are better, but the Practica was a good, affordable (especially at 
Trade price) camera which served me very well.  Took it half way around the 
world.

Cheers, Brian


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