I've never seen a Littman camera in person, so I've wondered about them. Today these two things came up on the auction site.
Littman 45 Single. The Opus + Arte Collection
Introduced at NY Photo Plus & Expo last weekend Item number: 7558521936
LITTMAN 45 SINGLE Par Pez Hazard Opurt REPAIR JOB !!!!!
You bought the hype, you're going to need it fixed. Item number: 7560846332
What's the story on the Littman?
The first one is a rip-off, the second one is a service
The ad for a Littman includes this If you are a US buyer and buy / have bought one of the butchered knockoffs offered in this site or elsewhere you may face legal costs ranging between 10 and 100k. all cameras in question sold to the US must be subpoena as evidence dismantled to allow through examination.we know who has bought these [...]
Whew. The ripper-offer must not be Chinese, eh?
I'm surprised ebay allows these kinds of listings. One is just an advert and the other is a veiled threat.
rebus
It's all that patent bluster (at one time Littman was threatening to sue anyone who bought a 110 series Polaroid on eBay on the grounds that under his patent, no one else had any use for them), that makes people want to buy other people's Polaroid conversions as a matter of principle, whether they need one or not. The Littman is a neat concept and in most cases seems to be a good camera, but who needs the paranoia?
What a loon! What language is he writing in? Klingon?
My attorney has advised me not to comment on anyone selling, making, or talking about Polaroid conversions. ;-)
Hi there,
This just poses a question: Why Bother?
Converting a Polaroid is a bother, converting a baby SpeedGraphic is a cakewalk, it takes more lenses, has more movements, has a better rangefinder if you wish, and is smaller, lighter and cheaper.
Why bother?
I had a chance to handle one and shoot it when a friend visited with hers. I love the concept and execution but the price for me is a killer. The 5x7 camera I bought this summer cost me $20 and that's more my speed
The attraction of the Littman is that you can focus and frame in the same finder, like with a normal rangefinder camera, and there is parallax correction for fairly close distances.
Other Polaroid conversions aren't as sophisticated as this, but the attraction of one of those would be that some people find them more handholdable than a press camera.
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