User talk:Hoary/Archive 01

Fujica medium formats

I like very much your Fujica G690 page. If the other medium format Fuji cameras are already on your todo list, I would be interested to hear something about the Fujica G645. I know very few things about it and it seems that you have the proper documentation to make something interesting. (I'm not giving you instructions, just saying that I'm personally more interested by the G645 than by the later generation of 6×7 and 6×9. You can ignore this post if you don't plan to write about the other Fuji MF cameras.) --Rebollo fr 04:24, 13 June 2006 (EDT)

Thank you for the flattery! There's more to be done on Fujica G690 and its close successors, and then it would be pretty easy to write up their fixed-lens 6x7, 6x8 and 6x9 successors. I'd been vaguely intending to do this, plus more on the Fujipet (of which there are two more models) and also a page about the Super Fujica Six. But I don't have much depth of information on any but the 6x7—6x9 models. Still, what little I have sufficed for Fujica Six, so I suppose that yes, I can do the others as well. Not all that soon, perhaps.

I must get around to providing some (legitimate) photos of some of these, too. I already have my own photos of the Super Fujica Six, and I can easily photograph a Fujica Six and a Fujica G690 BL. -- Hoary 04:51, 13 June 2006 (EDT)

I was seriously meaning it! For example the G690 descending from the Combat Graphic is a funny story. So it's a grandson of the Contax II! It should have been called "Texas Contax" instead of "Texas Leica".

I will try to take pictures for some articles too. Step #1: I stop buying completely unusable cameras (like British 9×12 press cameras, about which I have to write something sooner or later). Step #2: I usefully spend the money buying a good digital camera. But I regularly get lost somewhere between step 1 and step 2, buying other weird things (for example a huge book full of 70-year old ads) and I have to restart the full process again. --Rebollo fr 06:21, 13 June 2006 (EDT)

Welcome Sysop!

Hey, Hoary. Thanks for the heads-up about that "wheels" guy. Pretty lame. He's over at Wikipedia too? Meh. Anyhow, I really appreciate all the time you've been putting in here... adding lots of value... good stuff.

I've just upgraded your account to sysop. w00t! --Lbstone 11:46, 24 June 2006 (EDT)