Monthly Archives: February 2008
I’m Not Addicted
I believe I’m not. However, I have bought two more cameras today. Another Trip 35 in good condition and a Canon Canonet 19 from 1960 in excellent condition. The Canonet has a 45mm f1.9 lens and a bottom advance lever! How funky is that. Check out a few pics here. I fear this is only [...]
Olympus Trip 35
I couldn’t help myself and today bought another Vintage Rangefinder. This time it’s an Olympus Trip 35 which was more your average consumer P&S camera of its time. This unit sold more than 10 million between 1967 and 1984. The name trip suggests rather bluntly that it was a cheap P&S targeted at the family [...]
Canon QL17 GIII
Earlier today I purchased a top of the range camera! I splurged a whopping US$35 on a Canon QL17 GIII which is the end of the line of their Canonet range. It’s a 1972 rangefinder camera sporting a 40mm f1.7 lens with 6 elements. Canon sold 1.2 million units making it the best selling rangefinder [...]
Street Photography
Blink and you have missed a handful. If you watch a person carefully for any amount of time you can deduct whether they are happy, sad, paranoid, nervous and a slew of other emotions. What you won’t see is the many emotions and expressions in between. A person eating a hamburger looks like a person [...]