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Ideas for adding value to your spotmatic...
Posted By: Arjay Bee, 01-22-2017, 02:00 AM

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Here is an interesting idea for the Spottie on your shelf...

Spotmatic Correspondent...

I have no connection with this item or seller - just saying...
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01-22-2017, 04:00 AM   #2
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Not the Spottie on my shelf! 😢
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Laughable
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The kangaroo leather is a nice touch, but apart from that the aesthetics are awful. If you're going to sand it down to brass, sand it ALL down to brass and give it a steampunk look.

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Dang...that is a lot of self-timer wear!!!


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QuoteOriginally posted by stevebrot Quote
Dang...that is a lot of self-timer wear!!!
And the 'brassing' at the Asahi Pentax mark reveals a unique, previously-unknown camera-holding technique!

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At these rates for beaten up Spotmatic bodies, I apparently have a suitcase full of old bodies in my closet that is valuable enough to put my kids through college. I knew I kept them for a reason!
Maybe you could open up a new line of business... Forget all that complicated anodizing stuff... just bring out the 120 grit and have at it.

Gotta love the description: Item is in good cosmetic condition...

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Ya gotta love the seller's abject ignorance of the meaning of the original term.

A "Correspondent's" camera is a very worn camera used by a widely traveling journalist who corresponded with their distant paper or publisher.

A "Correspondence" camera is WTF!

(The funny thing is I can imagine a proper "Correspondence Kit" camera consisting of a sturdy little shipping box with purpose-built holders for the Spotmatic, a lens, some film, and a place for a thick stack of 4x6 snapshots. You'd buy the kit, use the film, and then send the kit with snapshots and new film to a friend who would use your film and send the camera back to you with their snapshots, etc. It's like the travelling nifty 50 in a prebuilt shipping box. It would be the perfect way for "correspondence" with a film-loving friend.)


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This is a college behavioral psychology project, right? RIGHT???
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I'd say they had a brass neck but that may be stating the obvious
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QuoteOriginally posted by photoptimist Quote
(The funny thing is I can imagine a proper "Correspondence Kit" camera consisting of a sturdy little shipping box with purpose-built holders for the Spotmatic, a lens, some film, and a place for a thick stack of 4x6 snapshots. You'd buy the kit, use the film, and then send the kit with snapshots and new film to a friend who would use your film and send the camera back to you with their snapshots, etc. It's like the travelling nifty 50 in a prebuilt shipping box. It would be the perfect way for "correspondence" with a film-loving friend.)
Not just the Travelling Nifty Fifty; there's currently an entire K1000 doing the rounds.
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And an SV that has a shipping box lined with plywood, and dense foam with custom cuts for the camera, another lens, a light meter and instruction manual. Every so often someone refreshes the external shipping box.
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A "Correspondence" camera is WTF!
Definition

Correspondence camera: A camera complete with used film tied to the leg of a carrier pigeon used for communicating images afar. An old communication technique now superseded by email.
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Is that like correspondence in a divorce case?
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think he's inhaled too many solvent fumes cleaning off old finishes....
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QuoteOriginally posted by stevebrot Quote
Dang...that is a lot of self-timer wear!!!


Steve

WE do live in the selfie age after all.

Well, I guess that's one way to try and get some cash out of scratched up bodies.. Asking for that much though is a bit daft.

It'd also look slightly better if the "customiser" would learn how to use sandpaper properly. It looks like he used just one grit!

I do admit that I find natural 'weathering' can look really cool as if shows signs of some history.
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