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  • Canon A2E vs. Elan IIe

    From Noons@21:1/5 to skramnor@gmail.com on Sat Aug 15 23:59:54 2015
    On 13/08/2015 10:31 PM, skramnor@gmail.com wrote:
    I thought it would be fun to post a reply MANY years later and see if anyone would get a notice to read. It is now the future and film cameras are mostly dead as far as new sales. I wish I could send this post back in time to tell everyone on here that
    I have 2 A2e cams and 2 Elan IIe cams. I LOVE the Elan IIe for its easy access to all settings. Many via external knobs. However, I simply prefer the A2e. Here is the killer. I paid only $10-$20 for each one. People simply don't want them any more and
    basically give them away. Crazy how fast that happened! :)



    This group stopped ebing about film cameras ages ago.
    No point in discussing anything about film here.
    Rather go to www.apug.org for that.

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  • From skramnor@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 13 05:31:16 2015
    I thought it would be fun to post a reply MANY years later and see if anyone would get a notice to read. It is now the future and film cameras are mostly dead as far as new sales. I wish I could send this post back in time to tell everyone on here that I
    have 2 A2e cams and 2 Elan IIe cams. I LOVE the Elan IIe for its easy access to all settings. Many via external knobs. However, I simply prefer the A2e. Here is the killer. I paid only $10-$20 for each one. People simply don't want them any more and
    basically give them away. Crazy how fast that happened! :)

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  • From allstar5497@gmail.com@21:1/5 to skra...@gmail.com on Fri Feb 10 21:11:58 2017
    On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 8:31:19 AM UTC-4, skra...@gmail.com wrote:
    I thought it would be fun to post a reply MANY years later and see if anyone would get a notice to read. It is now the future and film cameras are mostly dead as far as new sales. I wish I could send this post back in time to tell everyone on here that
    I have 2 A2e cams and 2 Elan IIe cams. I LOVE the Elan IIe for its easy access to all settings. Many via external knobs. However, I simply prefer the A2e. Here is the killer. I paid only $10-$20 for each one. People simply don't want them any more and
    basically give them away. Crazy how fast that happened! :)


    I had to reply to a 20 years old thread. There is not much choice for folks who want to buy a brand new film camera, it's either Leica, Nikon, Fuji, Holga or Lubitel. However the film market won't die anytime soon, Ilford is quite popular there days,
    Kodak just announced the reintroduction of Ektachrome, Ferrania is finally ready to get back to business and Adox is building a new factory near Berlin. Film has become a niche market with enough customers to sustain the remaining players.

    About the Elan IIe, crazy how they sell for peanuts these days. I grabbed one for 25$ just a few days ago :-)

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  • From Noons@21:1/5 to allstar5497@gmail.com on Sun Feb 12 21:00:45 2017
    On 11/02/2017 4:11 @wiz, allstar5497@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 8:31:19 AM UTC-4, skra...@gmail.com
    wrote:
    I thought it would be fun to post a reply MANY years later and see
    if anyone would get a notice to read. It is now the future and film
    cameras are mostly dead as far as new sales. I wish I could send
    this post back in time to tell everyone on here that I have 2 A2e
    cams and 2 Elan IIe cams. I LOVE the Elan IIe for its easy access
    to all settings. Many via external knobs. However, I simply prefer
    the A2e. Here is the killer. I paid only $10-$20 for each one.
    People simply don't want them any more and basically give them
    away. Crazy how fast that happened! :)


    I had to reply to a 20 years old thread. There is not much choice for
    folks who want to buy a brand new film camera, it's either Leica,
    Nikon, Fuji, Holga or Lubitel. However the film market won't die
    anytime soon, Ilford is quite popular there days, Kodak just
    announced the reintroduction of Ektachrome, Ferrania is finally ready
    to get back to business and Adox is building a new factory near
    Berlin. Film has become a niche market with enough customers to
    sustain the remaining players.

    It'll be a cold day in hell when I let go of my F, F2AS, F4 and F6!
    Oh, and there is also a FM3A and a couple of medium format Mamiyas.
    :)

    Still use them all every once in a while, with the F6 and the Mamiya
    645Pro-TL by far the most touched. And there are still over 150 film
    rolls in the deep freezer. Plus 3 scanners. Yes, I know: I am sick...
    :)

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