Hey guys,
I’m excited about the new old Konica FS-1 I got in the mail, and I’m now waiting on its big brother as well. The lenses from the old Konica Hexanon AR range are about the best lenses I’ve ever used! And to have it on a 30 year old 35mm SLR, jeez, the digital generation sure has diluted the quality coming out of those previously awesome Japanese lens makers (ok, they don’t really make the lenses nowadays, they usually pawn that off to thailand).
I’m so excited, that I decided to share my prints on a new flickr account I set up! here’s some of the first images I had processed from my camera. Seriously! People start looking at those old pre-1985 camera’s. They’re built like bricks and the lenses are amazing and cheap to boot!
cheers! chum
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thechum/
Follow-up: Ho hum, I spoke too soon, my FS-1 decided to slowly die while I was trekking through Pompeii, no doubt due to the notoriously faulty electrics, and here I am with 7 lenses and without a body to stick them on. I will be on the lookout for a Konica FT-1 now, apparently Konica improved on the electronics on this on despite the polycarbonate body. Anyway, I have a Hasselblad waiting for me at home which I am dying to try out, bring it on!! Oh and I wasn’t left completely high and dry by the death of my lovable FS-1, like the volkswagen beetle from the African challenge on Top Gear, I have been forced to use my tiny arse Sony compact digicam…. Blergh…. Stupid 28mm super wide, I don’t want to stand a meter away from my subject!!! Pics incoming
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