Repton
Mr Test Shot
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None this week - what are we gonna do 
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El Sid
Going potty
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Invent some... 
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Repton
Mr Test Shot
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OK Good idea 
What's AP got against the Halina Paulette Electric then!! There's never any copy on it. I reckon it would do well percentage-wise when compared with a Zorki 4 and an Instamatic
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Benchista
Wich Tyler
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You reckon? Which Instamatic?
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Repton
Mr Test Shot
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the bakelite one - or was it plastic. The lens was
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beejaybee
Marvin
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the bakelite one - or was it plastic. The lens was
The lens was what? Bakelite? Might have made better pictures if it was - you could have drilled a 0.1mm diameter hole straight through the middle
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Repton
Mr Test Shot
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I meant the lens - definitely plastic
I got my first converging vertical with an Instamatic - Lichfield cathedral.
I'd score the Kodak 12% - the Zorki 67.35% and the Paulette Electric (made in Oz I believe) 97.924%
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Benchista
Wich Tyler
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Hmmmm. Personally, I would score the Zorki way higher than the Paulette, which might even finish bottom in the build quality category.
Anyway, I sold the Zorki for cash. I can't give away the Instamatic, and I was on the receiving end of someone giving me the Paulette - so the podium has to be 1. Zorki, 2. Halina, 3. Kodak.
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huwevans
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Hmmm.
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I can't begin to tell you how disappointed I am that the Zorki produced such hopeless results... Unfortunately the results were rubbish most of the time because the shutter is, quite frankly, knackered. I can only hope it got this way through some serious use from a loving, previous owner - but somehow I doubt it.
Well, that was the conclusion of a three-way test of the Zorki 4, Fed 4, and Kiev 5 back in 2000. The Kiev was the clear winner, BTW. Ah well, all of them were some 30 years or so of age, so a knackered shutter here or there doesn't seem too unreasonable to this loving Zorki 4K owner. :-)
Oh, and the reviewer in question? - a young and upwardly mobile photography journalist by the name of Damien Demolder. ;-)
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huwevans
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I've just noticed - in the same issue of AP Damien also tested three rather more modern APS cameras - an Olympus, a Kodak, and a Canon. The Canon won.
Is that controversial anough for the Olympus forum? ;-)
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Repton
Mr Test Shot
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Hmmmn while I respect, and indeed would defend in principle, your right to hold such an blinkered view, I have to report that my Zorki fell apart after 3 months! I'll admit that my instamatic was always @@@@.
Only the MAGNIFICENT Halina Paulette Electric survived Saturdays at Villa Park and the grounds of assorted lesser football clubs. Build quality was superb - like the E-1. Not quite showerproof but almost. It prepared me well for the sophistication of the Zenit E
And what a design classic - and years ahead of itself
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Repton
Mr Test Shot
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I've just noticed - in the same issue of AP Damien also tested three rather more modern APS cameras - an Olympus, a Kodak, and a Canon. The Canon won.
Is that controversial anough for the Olympus forum? ;-)
SSSHHHHHHHHH! I'm working undercover here
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mike_j
nobbut a beginner
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I've just noticed - in the same issue of AP Damien also tested three rather more modern APS cameras - an Olympus, a Kodak, and a Canon. The Canon won.
Is that controversial anough for the Olympus forum? ;-)
Bad habits are learned early
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ACS
For Whom the Bell Trolls...
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Well, I thought the 3 way test last week might have kicked up more of a fuss than it did. I suspect we're so used to AP panning oly that nobody cares any more! (Anyone checked the release dates of those three models? Heh heh...)
But lets here it for Halina: I've got a Halina x35 from around 1950. I rescued it from a pub, where it kept the door to the bar open, and was handy for the bouncer who used it to add a bit of iron to his clenched fist if things got a bit hectic.
I keep it under the bed in case of burglars, it appears to be cast from a solid lump of metal, and is as far as I can tell indestructible.
Seriously folks, when I'd cleaned the lens up (probably destroying the coating, if it ever had any) it worked a treat, still use it, got an ASA 400 B/W film in there now.
Hey, here's some pics: just look at that polished cast iron. And you thought the E3 was tough.
http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=all&q=halina+35x&m=tags
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Repton
Mr Test Shot
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Wonderful. Proper cameras these Halinas not like these populist non Oly ice cream tub dslrs
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El Sid
Going potty
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Wonderful. Proper cameras these Halinas not like these populist non Oly ice cream tub dslrs
At least you don't need a magnifying glass to find them... 
.........or tweezers to use the controls.......
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Repton
Mr Test Shot
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At least you don't need a magnifying glass to find them... .........or tweezers to use the controls.......
Ah but most Oly users have normal sized hands
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El Sid
Going potty
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So Munchkins do exist!!!
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Nigel
Completely BSRIPN
ElSid Gallery
A camera in the hand is more fun than one in the cupboard........
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RogerMac
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At least you don't need a magnifying glass to find them... .........or tweezers to use the controls.......
Ah but most Oly users have normal sized hands
Not all of us - I have large hands and embarrass my sons in law every Christmas by cracking nuts without the aid of nutcrackers, and I still think that the E510 size is perfect!
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Fen
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At least you don't need a magnifying glass to find them... .........or tweezers to use the controls.......
Ah but most Oly users have normal sized hands
Not all of us - I have large hands and embarrass my sons in law every Christmas by cracking nuts without the aid of nutcrackers, and I still think that the E510 size is perfect!
They your son-in-laws nuts?
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