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From: 2141smh@rduxb.UUCP (henning)
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Subject: Re: advice on camera
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Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 16:43:25 EST
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> I'd go (and did) for the FG.  I think that Photography tends to suck ...
> 
> Besides, the T70 doesn't look like a real camera.
> 
> I now use my FG on manual only, in fact I use it mostly on M90, ...

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From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA rduxb!2141smh

What really ammuses me since it is not my money is people that read
the camera adds and get all excited about a camera, go out and buy
it and find that they don't want to buy the lenses that go with it
and buy some questionable lens.  Believe it or not, the lens is the
most important part of the camera.  Next to the film, the lens is what
takes the picture.  A 35mm SLR is just a film holder, focusing aid,
exposure meter and shutter.  The lens and film are what take the picture.
The following is a quote from a person that bought a great camera
but now is looking for a lens:

> I'm pretty much staying away from Nikkor because of their limited
> zoom ranges and gawd-awful prices.

My advice is to find the lenses that you eventually want at the
prices you want to pay and then find a body that they will fit
on that fits your needs.  That is why I laugh at 9 out of 10 people
that buy these very good but inexpensive Nikon cameras and then
find that they don't want to pay "gawd-awful prices" for the
good Nikkor lenses.  There are a lot of other good lenses, but
most of them are made by Pentax, Canon, Minolta, and Olympus;
and not by these discount house brand names.