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Old 30th January 2020, 11:01 AM
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That 124g was my pride and joy for the short while that I had it.
No weight at all, built in meter and a couple of rolls of film in my pocket. All I needed for a hike up a mountain.
It was about £115-125 new and Jessops had to order it for me. It also must have been one of the last, as shortly afterwards the adverts for them started to fall away.
Everybody was into flash, showy SLRs at the time. I can still see the look of disdain on the young assistants face when he brought my order out of the stock room. As if to say "You actually paid that much for an obsolete, old fashioned camera like that."

Happy days.
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Old 30th January 2020, 01:14 PM
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... I can still see the look of disdain on the young assistants face when he brought my order out of the stock room. As if to say "You actually paid that much for an obsolete, old fashioned camera like that."

Happy days.
I for one am proud to be obsolete and old-fashioned

Thanks everyone for sharing your bouncing camera stories - I tested the lens yesterday, having finally got the remains of the filter off and that looks to have suffered no ill harm apart from a few dents and scratches.
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Old 30th January 2020, 06:36 PM
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I have never had a camera that I dropped to see if it bounced, but I did have a mishap with a Nikon F2a when it was fitted with 35/70 2.8 zoom. It fell about 4 feet from my tender grasp when I slipped on mud on a sloping field. It didn't bounce - stuck deep in soft mud from a ploughed furrow.

Going by the weight of the two items it must have registered on the Richter Scale somewhere. The mud however was a different matter, it took me weeks to get rid of it from all the nooks and crannies. However there was no lasting damage.
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