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on Mar 15, 2017 15:28:35 GMT
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After ages without one, I decided to give myself a present and celebrate my new status as an Old Age Pensioner:
This little beauty turned up today and I have a role of Fuji waiting in the refrigerator for it... |
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on Mar 15, 2017 20:51:13 GMT
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No way you are older than me .... you must have retired early!  I'll not forget the amusement the back-to fronty-ness of the image in the viewfinder of my very first camera gave me on my 11th birthday many years ago ... a brand new TLR Lubitel 2 with real leather case (still remember the smell!) .... dad set me off on a life-long hobby. Also, the amazement that the world can look the right way around when I was given permission to part-exchanged it for a Zenit-E at the age of 17 .... even if the world look a little "grainy"! I still have that Zenit E, 47 years later, and my dear dad bought me a 2nd hand Lubitel 2 at a car boot sale about 5 years ago for nostalgia sake ... alas he's no longer with us .... but both cameras are. Enjoy your 124G! |
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on Mar 15, 2017 21:08:59 GMT
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It's great fun to go on a nostalgia-fest.
I remember those Lubitel TLRs which were often the introduction to medium format photography - I had one for about a month before selling it to help fund a Mamiya 645. I still have my first SLR - a Pentax SV - which was to lay the foundation for a life-long pleasure in photography. The next was a Sigmaflex Mk1 and after that the Contax RTS... I recently reacquired a Sigmaflex Mk1 courtesy of Ebay which is still fun to use, especially as I now have a decent selection of M42 lenses; I still remember the excitement of seeing the meter's needle centring after never having had a meter as I couldn't afford the clip-on for the Pentax SV.
How technology has changed...but the enjoyment of recording a moment in time never dies.
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on Mar 15, 2017 21:12:36 GMT
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Yes, Graham, congratulations and enjoy this acquisition! One of Yashica's all-time greats. With such a hobby, I might actually look forward to my life as a pensioner. (Alas! another six years to go...)
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on Mar 15, 2017 22:01:47 GMT
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Didn't mean to hi-jack the 124G with nostalgia, but I wonder how many of us near OAP's started off with a TLR?
Good to remember also that the Yashica saga sort of started with the old TLR-flex's ..... Pigeon, Yashima, Yashica -flex's back in circa 1953. OK, Nicca come into the early mix too! |
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on Mar 15, 2017 22:07:06 GMT
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Yes, Graham, congratulations and enjoy this acquisition! One of Yashica's all-time greats. With such a hobby, I might actually look forward to my life as a pensioner. (Alas! another six years to go...) You youngsters...I wish I still had 6 years to go...
The 2 reasons I keep going are photography and a girlfriend who is over 20 years younger than me  I'm not saying which is more important (in case Samantha reads this!) 
Thank you Michael for your good wishes - I think I am going to enjoy every minute with the 124G...
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on Mar 16, 2017 0:40:34 GMT
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The 2 reasons I keep going are photography and a girlfriend who is over 20 years younger than me I'm not saying which is more important (in case Samantha reads this!)
In case she does, play this to her...  |
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on Mar 16, 2017 1:17:03 GMT
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Michael, you're such a romantic... Brilliant! I've just sent her the url...
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on Mar 17, 2017 2:14:27 GMT
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Retirement is great, Graham. Congrats on the new camera too.
PF
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on Mar 25, 2017 1:40:10 GMT
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Michael, you're such a romantic... Brilliant! I've just sent her the url... here is another one � youtu.be/xcvL0wrHM1s |
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I'm not saying which is more important (in case Samantha reads this!) 
