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I agree.Whomever got it is a lucky person. This is one of the best cameras ever made, in my not so humble opinion.
Jack, if possible could you forward the name and phone number of your dealer so I can try to get a 203FE from them? I want a second body to shoot film with, and don't want to disable the ISO transfer capability with E-Backs.If anybody wants or needs one of these, they show up frequently used at my local dealer --- I've seen at least three of them and a 205 TCC or two in the past 60 days.
MarcJack, if possible could you forward the name and phone number of your dealer so I can try to get a 203FE from them? I want a second body to shoot film with, and don't want to disable the ISO transfer capability with E-Backs.
Yes it's a cinch, unless you are shooting 160 color and 320 B&W back and forth at a wedding and swapping backs ... then it's asking for a goof up.Marc
I found a mint 203 FE on ebay and bought it recently. I think it is a marvelous camera but I will probably have mine modified in Sweden to accept the CFV II back. I have the automatic ISO film back and will be sorry to see the auto ISO disabled but setting the ISO manually is a cinch with this body.
Woody
Leave it to you to find out how little I know. But I stand by my general statement that it is a cinch to change ISO through the PR1 mode. But I don't shoot weddings (thank Heavens) so I am not under the kind of pressure you guys go through to get this type of shooting done. Auto may be the best of everything under these circumstances.Yes it's a cinch, unless you are shooting 160 color and 320 B&W back and forth at a wedding and swapping backs ... then it's asking for a goof up.
Yes, you can use all the F & FE lenses Stuart.Yes, the auto-iso is nice to have. One nice thing though, is that it defaults to 100 if there is no communication. I have two backs, an A12 and an E12. My main films are E100G and Acros, but if I am shooting something else, I just leave the 100 ISO in the A12 and put the other (Tri-X, portra or whatever) in the E12 with the proper setting. Voila.
Marc, am correct in thinking you can't use FE lenses with the CFV? This would be a barrier to me, as the only non FE lens I have is an 80mm. That said, I seem to remember someone using it with FE lenses...do you have any idea about that? Not that I am really thinking about it....I am still pretty much sold on film or a 645 sized mfdb.