Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, and used Leica seem to have doubled in price in the past two years. On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 5:32 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > Easily known I'm out of touch with film - $68 a roll seems just a teeny > bit steep! > > But the Japanese are mad on their cameras, aren't they? Then I looked at > their cameras for sale and saw this > > https://showa-store.com/collections/camera/products/olympus-om1-black-auto-s-50-1-8-lens > and its $2,080 price and truly was boggle-eyed with disbelief, as I have > five or six of those. Then I realised that Showa wasn't Japanese, but > Hong Kong based with prices in HKD. What a let down! That said > considering I bought many of my camera collection in various charity > shops for peanuts, there certainly seems to be a market for good > condition SLRs. > > Douglas > > > On 22/07/2021 22:08, Lluis Ripoll via LUG wrote: > > Thank you Marty! It?s interesting, if you can test the Oriental film I > would like know your opinion, I?ve found this: > > > > To Buy > > https://showa-store.com/products/seagull-oriental-400-35mm > > > > Comments: > > > https://toivonenphoto.com/blog/2018/1/5/budapest-oriental-seagull-400-in-d76-11 > > > > > https://www.filmshooterscollective.com/analog-film-photography-blog/under-the-radar-oriental-seagull-400-renato-repetto-10-10 > > > > Cheers > > Lluis > > > > > > > > > > > >> El 21 jul 2021, a les 11:11, Marty Deveney via LUG <lug at > >> leica-users.org> > va escriure: > >> > >> Oriental Seagull is apparently made for the Japanese market by > Harmann. It > >> is hard to get outside Japan. > >> > >> There is a reasonable list of extant film manufacturers here: > >> https://wiki2.org/en/Photographic_film#In_production > >> We just went into a Level 5 response (basically lockdown) so I have > time to > >> think before I do anything. > >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com <http://sonc.com/look/> Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA