What was I shooting in 1970? Maybe cap pistols. I was 11, and didn't get my
first camera until 2 years later. It was a Genuine Kodak Instamatic, that took
126 film.
Back then my Dad was shooting a Baldessa Balda rangefinder. He didn't get his
Nikon F until several years later.
Thanks,
Steve Goss
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From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 8:45 AM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: [OM] What were you shooting in 1970?
Moose asked Ken: What were you shooting in 1970?
I thought that made for a new subject. In 1970 I was shooting with a Miranda
GT with one lens, the standard 50/1.8. The page where this image is from
<http://www.mirandacamera.com/_intro/Image17.jpg> says:
"The Model F was extended into the more comprehensive Model G, with
interchangeable focus screens, an oversize mirror, and mirror lockup.
This last feature, coupled with the availability of a magnifying finder, made
the G particularly attractive to astronomers for telescope use".
My wife bought it for me in 1968 as my university graduation present. I sorely
wanted to do astrophotgraphy at the time and my Petri 7s
<http://photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/Petri7s.html> rangefinder (my very
first camera bought in Germany in 1963) was a significant impediment. The "T"
in Miranda GT meant TTL metering in the T prism.
Of course, removing the metering pentaprism for other prism or the 5X magnifier
option meant losing all metering but that didn't matter for astro work.
In 1974 I came into some unexpected money and used part of it to buy a
Celestron 8 (2000mm f/10) with equatorial fork mount and an OM-1 with 50/1.8.
But what I really wanted was a Canon F1. I didn't like the idea that the
OM-1's pentaprism wasn't removable and that the focusing screen was a piece of
plastic that had to be removed through the lens mount. The Canon F-1 was like
the Miranda. The pentaprism was removable and it used real glass focusing
screens in brass frames just like the Miranda. But I bought the OM-1 because
it was lots cheaper.
Little did I know that I made the right long term decision for the wrong
reason. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
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