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Post by jhelms on Feb 20, 2017 16:08:03 GMT
I'd love a boat to go out fishing. Looking forward to it. This is an old welded hull Gregor boat (excellent here in the states). Boat and trailer have seen better days so it is quite the project to refurbish it. But once done, she should last my lifetime and be passed down.
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Post by Rabbit on Feb 20, 2017 17:36:43 GMT
Lovely. There's something really nice about sitting on a boat with a rod. I love the isolation and knowing that you are out there with the fish.
I occasionally go sea fishing here in the UK and used to go around looking for big Pike. Used to catch them with a free lined sprat!! Found it more effective than using a float. Just throw it out and let it sink and every now and then I'd give it a twitch. When the pike took I let it run for a little while.
The daftest fish I caught was a Gurnard off Brighton harbour. Got this thing in and as soon as I lifted it onto the wall of the harbour, it raised its fins and hissed at me. That really spooked me so I just cut it off and put it back. I think it was stalking me!!
The real mad one was a dog fish that I caught on a pier. It was too large to lift, so I had to drag it all the way down a pier to the shore where I could reel it in. By the time I got back to the shore, I had a crowd of people following me, all thinking that I had hooked a shark.
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Post by jello on Feb 20, 2017 18:37:48 GMT
Lovely. There's something really nice about sitting on a boat with a rod. I love the isolation and knowing that you are out there with the fish. The only time I tried fishing there was plenty of isolation. I got the distinct impression the fish had gone down the pub though
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Post by Rabbit on Feb 20, 2017 19:28:18 GMT
Once a fish pulled me into the lake in the middle of the night. When I was a kid, I used to lie on a camp bed, fishing on a lake. One night a big carp ran off with my bait and when I grabbed the rod, I was pulled off the bed and into the lack. The fish got away because it snapped my line.
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Post by sekar on Mar 12, 2017 19:37:11 GMT
Mountain bike riding is a very involving activity . It may help release your old stress by adding some kind of new one but temporarily Night time riding across the city sometimes may be fabulous you just need powerful front light.
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Post by Rabbit on Mar 12, 2017 19:42:08 GMT
Sergey, are there still some really good Russian cameras going around over there? I remember in the 70's, there were some amazing ones being made in Russia as well as some very good, and cheap to buy radio receivers. I used to use amateur radio and some of the shortwave receivers made in USSR were really good.
In fact, sometimes I used a transmitting radio separate from the receiving one and switched to a cheap Russian one because it was easier to hear on a long tuned wire antenna.
Eventually lashed out on a Yaesu transceiver on a huge beam antenna that I rotated on the roof.
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Post by sekar on Mar 12, 2017 20:17:35 GMT
Ian , as far as I know all even good USSR photo cameras had weak mechanical part as result of relatively low precision tooling. Old cameras as Kiev and Zenit had worse quality being compared with Nikon ones. I don't know if the factory had been manufacturing Zenit long time is still working . As I could recall this factory was located near the Moscow city in Krasnogorsk . As I heared in the late of the 60th the USSR made decision to make super quality camera as the copy of Japan one . This camera was very expensive on the fabrication stage and needed some service to be applied after moment of the purchace. There are no cameras of the same quality as icons Nikon FM2 or Nikon F4 . The USSR had been fabricating cheap optics of very good quality ! Some people used adapters to attach this old Soviet optic to newer mechanical Japan cameras.
I purchased Nikon FM2 to my friend when I was in the USA . This camera was for him a real workhorse long time .
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Post by Rabbit on Mar 12, 2017 21:31:41 GMT
Ah .... it was the old Zenith that I remember. Highly regarded in the 70's over here for a really good price. Good lenses. Built like a tank as well, but heavy to carry.
The radio receivers were crude but did work well as long as you used an aerial tuner to minimise noise coming in from a wire antenna. They were sensitive but received on a slightly wider bandwidth, so fine tuning the antenna kept the sensitivity but narrowed the bandwidth so you got a pretty good reveived signal. I remember some old Vega tuners I think, for briadcast radio as well.
I used Mamiya cameras in those days. I had a couple of C330's and an oblong format on 120 roll film. (Another Mamiya, M645) I liked those lenses a lot because they seemed to give great contrast
Eventually caved in and went to the lesser 35mm format but didn't like it due to the grain; especially on faster film, so I turned to slides using Ektachrome and produced my own cibrachrome prints at home. I used ISO 64 film stock to keep grain as small as possible. That's when I tried out the old Zenith cameras before moving on to Praktikas and Olympus cameras before I lashed out for a Canon one in the end.
In those days, it really was a juggling match if you wanted a professional looking shot, let alone framing via roll film.
Digital changed all that so that we all snap away merrily with no real knowledge of proper quality that could be had from the old 120 roll film. It was more difficult, but results could be superb.
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Post by solderdude on Mar 12, 2017 21:53:34 GMT
I started out with a Praktika (very cheap second hand) and moved on to Olympus OM10. Later on had an OM1, OM2 and OM2n. The 1/60th flash shutterspeed and too little info in the viewfinder brought me to Nikon FE-2 which became my workhorse (still have it) Later on also a Canon QL17G3 and YashicaMat 124G. From that to Kiev60 and later on Mamiya 645 with a bunch of lenses. Did lots of weddings etc. Then started collecting cameras. When digital became the rage I sort of quit the hobby as everyone suddenly became a gifted photographer it seems. Someday I may take up that hobby again. Needing reading glasses didn't help either. still have some Russian oldies: one could say collecting became a hobby. Nowadays all of these cameras are worthless and their worth has dropped to pennies now. This was my collection.
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Post by Rabbit on Mar 12, 2017 23:14:42 GMT
Wow. They look fantastic Frans.
It was when digital came out that I became much more interested in movie film. Photography almost became a 'snap a picture' and fix it later kind of hobby which put me off as well. I did lots of 'Do's' as well in the early days and occasional magazine stuff with the m645.
For me now, manipulating time with pictures is more interesting. Digital really unlocked that and made it much easier to get into. Early movie making was dodgy with physical cutting of film. I did it, but it was a slow and pai full exercise. Especially if splices broke!!
Digital kind of killed still images for me but opened up moving images.
Even so, things like the GoPro just encourage people to kind of throw the camera around and check for useable images later!!
Not sure how I feel about them now, although the latest GoPro is excellent and has a little more control. I've bought another metal case for it though so that I can attach filters in order to have better control over exposure. ND filters are essential for movies!!
Your house must be like a museum with those cameras!!!
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Post by sekar on Mar 13, 2017 18:58:04 GMT
Recently I've discovered that careful examination of some artfully made photos ( like the ones our dear goggs does ! ) reminds me listening of the classical musics. A lot of details wide and deep soundstage you may easily change your listening point to a different parts of resulting picture .... or sound and a strange feeling of the body in the picture ? It's a Stax 700 i had a chance to listen at the local HP Show at the Moscow ! ( and just a bit resembles to my system )
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Post by tsd13 on Mar 16, 2017 23:59:09 GMT
I've been reading around about film cameras, and according to Bellamy Hunt of www.japancamerahunter.com, who looks for rare cameras for a living, prices seem to be actually rising in the past couple of years for the older film cameras. A little after 4:30 in the following video www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr8vg52y-wM
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2017 13:12:31 GMT
I only have one decent film camera these days. The Canon AE-1 Program was the first SLR I ever owned when my Dad bought me it for my 16th birthday. I always keep saying one day I'll get a film & see what I can achieve but I never get around to it. I certainly won't ever sell it..
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Post by sekar on Mar 17, 2017 16:22:25 GMT
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Post by Rabbit on Mar 17, 2017 16:34:57 GMT
Wow. This is like a museum!!!
I had an AE1 new as well as an Olympus OM1. The AE1 had automatic exposure too I think. It was regarded as a really good camera when it came out with an excellent lens. I wish I'd kept all my old cameras now.
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