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- From: 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: _Consumer Reports_ believable on cameras?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.154623.44888@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:46:23 CST
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- Circumstances make it useful to solicit a mid-range 35mm SLR as a
- Christmas present. I am more than a little confused about the
- current generation of equipment out there. I was a newspaper
- reporter for a while in the '60s and '70s, and took more than a
- few pictures with old gray-market Ashai/Pentaxes, whose batteries
- were always dead because the head photographer thought using the
- match-pointer was a sign of weakness (or something...). I got in
- the habit of making a WHOLE LOT of bracketed exposures, and one
- of the reasons I've never got my own 35mm camera is that such a
- habit is expensive if you have to pay for film and developing.
-
- One obvious solution is to acquire something of the K-1000 flavor
- and *put in a battery.* But people other than I will probably be
- using this, and some of the automated goodies available now look
- attractive.
-
- _Consumer Reports_ likes, among the autofocus models it's tested,
- a Yashica with a name something like 280SF (270?). Comparable
- models in its tests run a couple of hundred dollars more. I've
- found _Consumer Reports_ reliable about some things but absolutely
- brain-dead about others (their ratings of bicycles, for example,
- are exercises in cretinism). Do people with real knowledge of
- cameras think _CU_ does a good job? Is an autofocus Yashica a
- good idea?
-
- Appreciate any help people can provide....
-
- Christopher Gunn Molecular Graphics and Modeling Lab
- SPAN--KUPHSX::GUNN Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Malott Hall
- 913-864-4428 or -4495 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045
-