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In Reply to: Re: Newbie question posted by JohnShaeffer on February 20, 2001 at 15:07:40:
Frank,
Hold on to your money! Twenty quid would buy you the whole outfit and drinks on the house at your local drinking hole!
Today Russian cameras are not so bad - I have a Horizon 202 panorana camera that works pretty well - but back then I think they were built in a tractor factory by Soviet hammer-throwers off the Olympic team. The optics were designed by a team of ex CocaCola employees who were fired because they couldn't make bottles clear enough to see what was inside.
£200 would buy you a nice Pentax K-1000 (Or canon AE-1, Nikon FG etc...) two or three good lenses, and with luck a flash to go with it!
Mike (Another English Ex-patriot)
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