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

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:57:32AM +0000, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> > 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.

Well, the one I heard was about some Name photographer being up a ladder
*with* his, but *without* a hammer, and needing to drive a nail into a
piece of scenery...

> 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'?).

Yay.

> >> 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!...

Double bastard. 

> 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..

Well, at least you don't have the 300/2.8  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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