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Hi Alain,

I will use your numbers as an argument for my wife soon, ok ...

Best Regards,
Aidas

buy more shelves... it's my solution (more than 300 cameras...)
not all FSU by far...

At one point I had to divert my money to invest in bookshelves (closed one) instead of buying cameras.... aaaaaargh...
and now... once again all the shelves are full...

I warmly recommend the Kew-lox modular shelves system... (it's typically belgian...) see their web site at www.kewlox.be (they also sell in france and germany)... look at the "vitrines" part of the catalog...

Stephan

And these risers are very convenient to elevate the cameras for display on different levels on the shelves:

http://stores.ebay.com/Laser-Creations_W0QQssPageNameZstrkQ3amefsxQ3asstQQtZkm

Vlad.

in France , the best way to have shelves is to make them in "Medium" (M.D.F. ) 19mm thick (very strong and easy to assemble and paint (or varnish) but if you are not handycraft man , you can buy such furnitures in special shop where you can find furnitures for shops.

Ulrich: about dedicate forum female links (or topic) once a french forum try to open such one (see "Sylvain Halgand" forum)...whithout success : only two or tree women interested.
But why not on Vlad's forum ?

Hate to be sexist or anything like that, but I have not met a lot of women who are into actually interested in inner workings of vintage mechanical items, this seems to me to be primarily a male fascination (Alain's wife must be the exception to the norm ).. lucky man! There seems to be more women in the forums who are more interested in shooting the vintage cameras than questioning their insides.

I think we did have one female member post something at one point in time, have not heard from her since...

Vlad

And seems that there has been even more growth again...
Last parcel was three cameras & two lenses, but I just can't help it! After Xmas I will make a list here what to get rid of, and then ebay the rest. Zenit, Zorki and FED will be my main lines after Smena in the future!

Alain and Vlad:

maybe there is a chance that a female collector will post here, who knows :-)

The last weeks I had two female buyers of cameras at home, the first one is a totally beginner and wants to start taking pictures in B&W. She bought a nice Zorki 1 from me.

The other one really surprises me, she knows a lot of russian cameras and has a big collection of old cameras (Nikon SLR's and rangefinders and a lot of russian cams), she knows the Princelle and so on. She looked at my collection and says "I have also this one and this, and this is nice, I am looking for it" :-) She bought a Zorki 2 from me, because she was looking longer time for it.

I told both of this forum, so maybe they take a look here and start posting :-)


Juhani: Yes, it's a mess... I also want to get rid of some cameras and in the same time half of a dozen packets arrive here with new stuff :-)

Ulrich

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