smithdan
Been spending a lot of time on here!
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Found this little critter hiding in its leathery case in the back of a box of remotes in the salvage shed. I usually pay $2 for abandoned compact autos but as this one was a "Nikon" the staff had stuck a $5 tag on it.
I was taken by how small it was. It came to life when I pushed the on switch, the battery had lots left which is rare so $5 didn't seem so bad.
The previous owner's dog must have been using it as a chew toy..
..and although the display lit up and the lens carrier popped out, the lens cover was reluctant to open
..and needed coaxing with a gentle poke.
Most of these point and shooters from the last days of film had tons of fiddly features and zoom lenses, some so tele at the long end that the optical quality suffered. It was refreshing to find a compact that had a limited but useful list of adjustable bits and a wider than the usual focal length lens. The "macro" is a bit misleading but it does focus to about a foot which is pretty close.
In went a roll of HP5 and I took it for a wander around Len's farmyard.
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I was taken by how small it was. It came to life when I pushed the on switch, the battery had lots left which is rare so $5 didn't seem so bad.
The previous owner's dog must have been using it as a chew toy..
..and although the display lit up and the lens carrier popped out, the lens cover was reluctant to open
..and needed coaxing with a gentle poke.
Most of these point and shooters from the last days of film had tons of fiddly features and zoom lenses, some so tele at the long end that the optical quality suffered. It was refreshing to find a compact that had a limited but useful list of adjustable bits and a wider than the usual focal length lens. The "macro" is a bit misleading but it does focus to about a foot which is pretty close.
In went a roll of HP5 and I took it for a wander around Len's farmyard.
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