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I actually wrote a detailed and lengthy backstory of the Mazda rotary engine for this caption, but when I made a typo in the last sentence my sticky "backspace" key erased it all.*
*Not really.
I've been meaning to do something like this for a while.
Most of my Canon FD gear in together in one place.
Back row:
Tamron Adaptall 35-70mm f/3.5-4.5 Macro
Canon FDn 70-210mm f/4
Ozeck 75-300mm f/5.6 FD
Canon FDn 35-105mm f/3.5
Canon FDn 35-70mm f/4
Camera Bodies:
Canon AE-1 Program with FDn 50mm f/1.8
Canon FT QL with FL 50mm f/1.4
Canon A-1 with FDn 50mm f/1.4 (with hood)
Canon EF with FD 35mm f/2 SSC
Canon T70 with FDn 35-70mm f/3.5-4.5 Macro
Front row
Canon FDn 200mm f/4
Canon FDn 28mm f/2.8 (with hood)
Canon FDn 28mm f/2
Canon FDn 17mm f/4
Canon FD 50mm f/1.8 SC
Canon FDn 135mm f/2.8
Canon FDn 50mm f/1.4
Canon FDn 35mm f/2.8 (with hood)
Missing from this are my AV-1 and its 50mm f/1.8 that I've owned for about thirty years.
I love a gold bubble water.
I love a vins rouge and blanc.
I love a saki ( it's a rice wine made in Japan ) too.
I am a laughing drunk :D
Would you care to join me for a drink?
Over the summer I've spent a probably-unhealthy amount of time tracking eBay auctions for old film camera gear.
What really caught my attention is that there are some real bargains around on lenses for Canon's old manual-focus FD mount. That makes sense since they mostly got orphaned in the transition to autofocus and then DSLRs. (They're easy to adapt to mirrorless though).
I've been ambivalent about Canon's FD-mount bodies, which either tend towards the huge and heavy, or else the plasticky and unreliable. But both these are totally useable—especially considering the two together just cost me $70 including the lenses and shipping.
The AT-1 is a basic match-needle model (think Pentax K1000 level). The aperture-priority T60 is one of Cosina's plasticky creations; but by this date they had a very worked-out set of parts that a lot of other companies slapped their own names onto.
View On Black Sharp at infinity focus, the mighty Canon FD 800 5.6L mating with the mighty Canon 7D as nature intended, adapter optics free.
It's time for the ferns to come out again. These ones are probably Dryopteris filix-mas (male fern). It will be easier to tell In one week or two.