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ANDRE · Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 16 Location: VA-DC-MD

Sorry about screwing up your name Doug Grosjean. I hate it when I can't edit my posts before sending them. This site needs a review and confirm option before it actually accepts a new post.

Andre Easter

Henry · Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:09 pm Post subject:

No doubt. OTOH, it's easy to edit a post after the fact. What I'd like to see is a "Delete Post" button (for those "second thought" situations).

45PSS · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 6:41 am Post subject:

The "delete post" option is available if one clicks on the edit button within 30 minutes of posting.

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Henry · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject:

Aha! Danke.

douggrosjean · Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 46 Location: NW Ohio, USA

Hi Andre,

No problem on the name, no offense taken. And you deserved the praise for your stuff on Photo.net.

You're right, "Prosumer" is more correct than "Low-end". I was comparing the Ciro-Flex to the Rolleiflex of the same period, and IIRC the Ciro-Flex was about $110 vs. the Rolleiflex at about $160. Same era, the Kodak Medalist was about $300. But I hadn't thought about the cheapie cameras of the day.

Still amazing to me how nowadays, you can get something like the Ciro-Flex for, oh, say $50... and have it work so well (assuming it's working as intended).

You've reminded me I need to get my girlfriend's Dad's CF out and excercise the shutter. He bought it new to take photos of her as a little girl, and she still has it. It's the first MF camera I ever used, and a year-and-a-half later making the move to manual MF has been one of the best things I've done to really make me think about light, and to re-invigorate my photography interest and skills.

Doug Grosjean

PS - Just found out that there's an Argus camera museum almost in my backyard, in Ann Arbor MI. Got to visit that place when the weather warms just a bit....