[mythtv-users] OT: Nokia N800 only $236 at Amazon

[R. G. Newbury]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:32:48PM +0000, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>>> Well, on this point... I also have to agree with Ken: that's much more
>>> important in these days of digital than it was with film.  Ironically, 
>>> F3s and F4s are *really* cheap these days.  <$500 cheap.  And they will
>>> be perfectly serviceable for roughly half of forever.
>> Hah! My Nikon F is still perfectly serviceable and I bought it used in 
>> 1967. Still takes great photos and you can drive nails with it!
> 
> Has anyone ever documented that story about the titanium F2's?  :-)

And what story would that be?  The titanium bodies which Nikon prodcued 
for some of their cameras were awesome...And if I hadn't already owned a 
perfectly good normal body, I would have grabbed the Ti versions. But 
they were apparently basically handmade, since titanium cannot be forged 
or weled: they were all machined from a solid block.

IIRC Nikon stopped producing Ti bodies because of environmental concerns 
about steps in the production process...They were producing some toxic 
by-product from a cleaning process (priopr to anodization iirc). The 
acid wash produced titanium dioxide (the white in white paint), and that 
was being dumped/escaped/poisoning the workers/offending the 
greens...and Japan is more than a little wary of environmental toxins 
(can you spell 'mercury poisoning'?).


>> Course no-one wants to buy it...And probably not my F3HP either...but 
>> all my lenses work on both.
> 
> I wouldn't mind an F4, but damn, digital's a lot cheaper.
> 
>> Although my 35mm f3.5 PC lens may be a little difficult to use on a 
>> digital body.
> 
> Bastard.  :-)

I'll make you even madder... My PC lens is some sort of protoype which 
was never mass produced. If you check the usual sources, Nikon made a 
28mm f3.5 PC and a 35mm f2.8 PC lens. Both use a manual stop down 
aperture (to f32) and are awesome lenses. You focus wide open and then 
close the aperture down to a pre-set stop for 'quick' shooting.

I own a 35mm f3.5.... which bears no serial number!...

Cost me about $250Cdn about the early 80's.. I wanted a wide angle lens 
and this was available in the used section of a Toronto camera store. 
The PC aspect is neat to play with. And a digital body is in the offing 
I think...and my 300mm f4 EDIF will work fine on one of those..

Geoff







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