Big news from Fujifilm today

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I’m not left-handed, but I’m still impressed:

”X-T1 was originally released in 2014 to celebrate Fujifilm’s 80th anniversary. It would go on to lead a mirrorless camera revolution.

Almost a decade and five generations later, Fujifilm’s latest imaging technology brought us the X-T5, bringing photographers unrivalled image quality in a timeless, classic, and beloved camera body.

Now Fujifilm is innovating again: featuring the same 40MP sensor and standard X-mount, X-T5L will cater to those left-handed among us who still want the premium APS-C experience but have always struggled with right-handed cameras”

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(Just in case anyone was wondering, this is of course an April Fool's joke)

[Apatchy]

Ha ha nice one, being a right handed canon shooter it didn`t interest me, so glad i wasn`t suckered in.

[Stephen]

I spent years using an Exakta Varex. Exaktas were left handed cameras (shutter and wind on use the left hand). I still have a number of Exaktas - lovely cameras.

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16 hours ago, Stephen said:

I spent years using an Exakta Varex. Exaktas were left handed cameras (shutter and wind on use the left hand). I still have a number of Exaktas - lovely cameras.

Oh wow, I didn't know such a thing existed! Do you have any photos that you can share, of the cameras themselves, or that you took with them?

[Stephen]

Yes, I'll dig some out. The Exakta was a trailblazer - first 35mm SLR, first lever wind, cassette to cassette take up possible with a built in cutting knife for short lengths. Shutter speeds 1/1000 to 12 seconds, with self timer working on all speeds down to 6 seconds. All in 1936. Post war, the previously fixed waist level finder became interchangeable, with a magnifying finder, pentaprism or stereo finder possible - a device was available with the latter to enable stereo pairs to be taken. Interchangeable focusing screens naturally. Very uncommon, but a metering prism appeared near the final end of production in the late 60s. 

[Stephen]

Until I dig out some more representative photos, my old school web site has lots of my photos on it from my time there. The link below has several. The camera was an Exakta Varex IIB, the lens would have been probably a 135mm Palinar (effectively a shop own brand) or a 400mm Telemegor. Film I could look up, but given this was sports, most likely HP3 (not a typo - this is the 1960s after all - probably 1966).

https://www.hemsworthgs1921.org/staff-hockey-match.html