February 21, 2006
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New Stuff
I'm looking for a vehicle to replace the Honda.
The Honda's a good car, but I want an SUV, like a Cherokee or a Trooper. Forest Service roads and car camping are in the cards... If I could buy new, I'd probably get the new diesel Jeep Liberty and run biodiesel.
Anyway. I've been looking about on craigslist, and found a few options. But naturally I got distracted by the medium format cameras that have suddenly appeared in droves. A Pentax 6x4.5 system for around $800, and a 6x7 for $2500. Both good deals. Pentax is also theoretically making a digital body for the 645 lenses, soooo...
The reason I'd want a medium format camera is for big prints. And what I really want is the Fuji or Linhoff 6x17 (yes, a negative that's 6.5 inches long), for panoramas. Forget the 6x7, get the Fuji for $5k with the 90mm lens, take some pictures and make... calendars? How do you recoup $5k with huge prints of beautiful scenery?
Comments (2)
I like the biodeisel idea. And I've been reasonably happy with my Subaru Forrester.
We lease images from companies like Visions, who furnish us with 5x7 transparencies for scanning. We drop 5k on that every year, easy. You could lease images or sell them outright to people who do.
Can't go wrong with a Jeep - been driving them for 10+ years now and couldn't be more happy
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