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nemesis101
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nemesis101 wrote:
I don't think I have ever seen a camera like this where every button and knob seems like an afterthought? Anyone else share that opinion - and what camera would you vote for?
Click here to see on Ebay
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Attila
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Attila wrote:
Huuh this is ugly ...
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bob955i
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bob955i wrote:
I suspect the "built in flash" is actually the selenium meter window.... |
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Puplet
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 12:06 am Post subject: |
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Puplet wrote:
I rather like it - the camera of mad engineers! Like this one:
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bob955i
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bob955i wrote:
A Jaeger Le Coultre compass camera no less.  |
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Schnauzer
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 12:29 am Post subject: |
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Schnauzer wrote:
I kind of like things that look so bad that a hog wouldn't eat it. Then drag it out where people are bragging about their high dollar crap and start telling how nice it is.
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nemesis101
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject: Wrist camera |
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nemesis101 wrote:
Why does the very complex camera remind me of A Tessina? I traded one of those in the 1960's or very early '70's for a Petri SLR and we both thought the other had probably done well!
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Katastrofo
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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Katastrofo wrote:
The cam Puplet posted is kind of cool. The Samoca is one ugly eyesore
of a camera--looks like the engineers got drunk on a 3-day weekend and
decided to build a camera on Tuesday. LOL
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luisalegria
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luisalegria wrote:
Oh, I don't know. The Argus "brick" is worse (I have two of them). It is a clumsier shape.
That, or the Kodak 35 rangefinder version (the other one though is rather elegant - I have one of each).
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hacksawbob
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hacksawbob wrote:
That Argus takes the buiscuit, The other two although a nightmare to use I dont mind them so much I am a sucker for chrome! The Yashica Samurai I think needs to be up there somewhere plastic crap of the highest order.
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zewrak
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zewrak wrote:
Hmm. someone named O***n is leading. Now, who might that be!? 
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zewrak
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zewrak wrote:
(photo at www.lpfoto.se)
Now thats a contender. Homebuilt I suppose, sold on an auction in sweden.
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peterqd
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:43 am Post subject: |
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peterqd wrote:
The Polaroid Land camera I used to have at work takes some beating for being the ugliest (and clumsiest) camera I ever saw.
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Flor27
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Flor27 wrote:
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(photo at www.lpfoto.se)
Now thats a contender. Homebuilt I suppose, sold on an auction in sweden. |
No, this is not homebuild. Those are first versions of Zenit Fotosaniper.
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zewrak
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zewrak wrote:
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(photo at www.lpfoto.se)
Now thats a contender. Homebuilt I suppose, sold on an auction in sweden. |
No, this is not homebuild. Those are first versions of Zenit Fotosaniper. |
Scary.
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Flor27
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Flor27 wrote:
What about this one ?
I've see one last week in Bièvres photo camera fair 
Edit : about the earlier Fotosnaiper : http://www.xs4all.nl/~tomtiger/fs-2/fs-2.html
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zewrak
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zewrak wrote:
hehe I wonder if they would let you on a plane with that one. I cant really see any benefit to make a camera that looks like a handgun really. Rifles, ok. But a handgun? :p
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Bob
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Bob wrote:
In these days would you really carry the sniper around?? 
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luisalegria
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luisalegria wrote:
I can see a reason to use that photo-pistol - silent firearms training.
I think though that particular one looks like it was made as a novelty.
Gun-cameras were also used for air-combat training, among other things.
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nemesis101
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:17 pm Post subject: Photosniper et al |
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nemesis101 wrote:
The Samurai was a good beautiful camera inj digital form , fit the hand so well it was scary - a triumph of form AND function!
The fotosniper should be dedicated to those folks at the department of homeland insecurity - it's old, ugly, and whilst it probably worked, there were so many better things to do! lol So, I give you The DHS Long Range anti terrorism device.. with a name like that the DHS would snap them up at thousands of bucks a time!
Come on, put yours up on e-bay and see? 
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patrickh wrote:
Nothing beats that original post - what a terrible piece of trash, it has absolutely no compensating virtues.
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Farside wrote:
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Nothing beats that original post - what a terrible piece of trash, it has absolutely no compensating virtues.
patrickh |
Amazingly, it went for $78  Only goes to show what people will pay for trash. If I didn't know better, I'd suspect it was made in a basement by mad uncle Ernie.
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