In 1970 I was fresh outta high school and full of it. I was shooting
with a Nikon F, Tn meter (center weighted) and 50mm 1.4.
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On 5/17/2012 6:49 PM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
> In 1970 I purchased a new Mamiya C220 with 80mm f2.8 lens. I had previously
> been using an old Voigtlander Vito II (~1952). I still have them both !
>
> ...Wayne
>
>
>>
>> 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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