I've been following the used prices of older Minolta and Pentax cameras
for the last 2-3 years on eBay.
I'd say that in this time, the prices have fallen a good 25-40%.  
Scary...

One of my friends, another Pentax M42 enthusiast, has put up a new web site,
dedicated to the Asahi (Honeywell) Pentax Spotmatic and ES cameras, and
their line of Takumar lenses.  I just checked the site, and there is very
little on it just yet, but he plans to add copies of camera ...

Big waves love the 1Ds MK II.
http://www.pbase.com/issels/phuket_tsunami

Happy New Years!
My Canon 28-105 3.5-4.5 II USM has suddenly started to give me problems and
I am writing this to try and figure out if it is worth getting it repaired
or if I have to write it off - your experience and knowledge will be greatly

OK, after getting really annoyed with those little out-of-focus blobs on my
1.5 year old 10D that show really well in the sky in bird photos, see
http://www.dyesscreek.com/Birds_on_a_Wire/pages/Loggerhead_Shrike.htm for an
example (its a pretty crappy photo otherwise), I did a ...

A blast from the past!
Portra 800 ... don't ask me why.
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/38047166

.. does not exist. Since I can not afford a 24-70L f/2.8 what would yu
suggest with a similar focal length (and range) for *about* half the price?
Martin

Merry Christmas and/or Happy Train
http://www.jlkramer.net/Pitures/Train/train.htm
About 500Kb
Jim Kramer

The last update on my website, showing 50 photos of Cuba.
http://galerie63.free.fr

Back in the stone age Sears & Robucks sold a Lieca III looking camera
under their Tower Housebrand name and called it the Tower Type 3.  One
of these recenbtly showed up on eBay.
I'm curious if they were real Liecas or FED/Zorki clones???

I have a Canon Rebel 2000 EOS with a Tamron 28-200 lens. The thing that
drives me nuts about the Canon is the auto focus/red eye "feature" that
blasts subjects with a strobe light in low light situations.
Apparently, a decent flash would stop this feature. I don't know. In low

Just installed linux suse 9.1.  before all the smart alec replies yes i have
posted to appropriate groups.  As i am more photographer than tec guy i hope
i would get advice on a level i understand.  alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
are full of sarcastic w.nkers.  I just tried alt ...

I got my first set of photos taken with my Leica R4, 35mm Elmarit R and
180mm APO-Telyt-R back from the lab today. Wow!
Unfortunately I can't post any pictures - I did ask them to make me a low
res CD of the roll for web use, but it being Xmas they just didn't have

Any views/opinions/preferences?
Duncan.