neilt3
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Post by neilt3 on Apr 8, 2023 23:19:34 GMT
Love that old Minolta typeface. I have not tried the download and do not know if the site is safe or not. Treat with care.
I've been on that site many times over the years , though I've never downloaded anything . Certainly a useful site with lots of information on . |
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Post by zou on Jul 24, 2023 10:40:42 GMT
Look what I found lurking unexported in Lightroom!  |
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pentaxpete
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Old FILM Bloke but 'Gone a Bit Digital ' sometimes
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Post by pentaxpete on Jul 25, 2023 9:17:42 GMT
My latest 'GIFT' from a YouTube and FLICKR contact -- it's GREAT when People SEND you things ! The 50mm f2.8 Color-Skopar is sharp !  Voigtlander BESSAMATIC by Peter Elgar, on Flickr |
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Post by Chester PB on Jul 25, 2023 15:31:42 GMT
Post your pictures of your hottest film kit here, but make it look good! You guys doing camera porn down here? If so, I got something for you! View AttachmentThis was my backup Rollei for the one that met a nasty muddy death! My wife refers to AP as 'camera porn', since it features so many things the possession of which can only be a fantasy. However, her 'garden porn' magazine is much thicker and glossier. |
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Post by nimbus on Jul 25, 2023 22:15:28 GMT
I don't often photograph my cameras, but perhaps this shot of my battered old Ensign Ful-Vue will be relevant:  Dedham church TTV by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr The first camera I ever used as a child, the mirror came loose. |
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Post by nimbus on Jul 25, 2023 22:17:01 GMT
'SAVED FROM THE DUMP' !! I got a phone call from our Hon Sec at Brentwood Photo Club saying that if I got to West Horndon 'Sharpish' there was a Bloke who was going to DUMP his Deceased Dad's 'Old Camera gear' -- so I rushed there and bloke brought out a dusty box ( Wife would DIVORCE me if she saw me bringing home Other People's Old Rubbish-- ) BUT inside were filthy cameras lenses winders etc etc -- A YASHICA FR-1 with 3 lenses, CONTAX RTS II Quartz with flash , winder and 50mm f1.4 PLANAR T* -- well I SMUGGLED it into my Darkroom while Wife was out and cleaned it all up and ENJOYED -- YASHICA FR-1 outfit  Yashica gear by Peter Elgar, on Flickr CONTAX RTS III QUartz  Contax RTS II Quartz by Peter Elgar, on Flickr  Contax with Flash by Peter Elgar, on Flickr The very thought od somebody dumping a Contax and a 50mm f1.4 Planar makes me shudder. |
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Post by gray1720 on Jul 26, 2023 17:15:08 GMT
My latest 'GIFT' from a YouTube and FLICKR contact -- it's GREAT when People SEND you things ! The 50mm f2.8 Color-Skopar is sharp ! Voigtlander BESSAMATIC by Peter Elgar, on Flickr That is definitely PHWOAR! I have a - sadly very dead indeed - Ultramatic, just don't drop it on your toes or it'll be a trip to A&E, it makes Nikons look like party balloons! |
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neilt3
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Post by neilt3 on Aug 6, 2023 9:59:39 GMT
I don't often photograph my cameras, but perhaps this shot of my battered old Ensign Ful-Vue will be relevant: Dedham church TTV by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr The first camera I ever used as a child, the mirror came loose. I bought mine a few years ago . Viewfinder and mirror were filthy , shutter sticking etc . It has to be said , its the easiest camera I've ever worked on to repair . I wiped the mirror and glass with a bit of IPA ( no , not the beer type !) Stipped the shutter down , a piece of metal or something and a spring . Cleaned that with IPA , and rubbed a pencil on the contact points for the graphite to keep it lubricated . Works good as new , nice results . |
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Post by gray1720 on Aug 13, 2023 22:15:43 GMT
Here's my Edixa Reflex, built by Wirgin of Dresden, and the lens it came with, a Steinheil Cassar - a triplet obviously meant to sound like a Tessar! Then there it is in its new guise for collimating lenses, because the waist-level finder has a magnifier in it that should make it easier to use for the job than my F3 (yes, you read that right, because I have to take the prism off to use it!) - with the new Jupiter-11A fitted. I recall a thread Elsewhere where someone asked why SLRs hadn't instantly supplanted rangefinders in the 1950s and I could say, having used a 1950s SLR, "Have you ever used one?". This is it - no coupling of the aperture, just focus on a screen with no assistance and, worst of all, the mirror doesn't return until you cock that shutter - really disconcerting if you haven't come across it before! Finally - how's your Russian? We've got most of it - it says "Fotoobjectiv Jupiter 11", not sure about the bottom line on the left, but on the right is clearly "Zenit" so maybe "to fit"? |
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Post by gray1720 on Aug 13, 2023 22:17:08 GMT
Here's the "coffee can": I know steveandthe dogs was one of the people who recommended this lens, but I can't remember who else now, so please acccept my apologies. Attachments:
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Post by John Farrell on Aug 13, 2023 23:12:12 GMT
Here's the "coffee can": I know steveandthe dogs was one of the people who recommended this lens, but I can't remember who else now, so please acccept my apologies. I had one of these lenses in Zenit M39 mount, years ago. |
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Post by John Farrell on Aug 13, 2023 23:25:00 GMT
 Since we're drooling over unusual lenses - here are a couple I won in an auction...a Jupiter 9 f2 85mm, and a Schneider Tele-Xenar f3.5 135mm, both in M42 mount. |
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Post by steveandthedogs on Aug 14, 2023 6:30:19 GMT
Here's my Edixa Reflex, built by Wirgin of Dresden, and the lens it came with, a Steinheil Cassar - a triplet obviously meant to sound like a Tessar! Then there it is in its new guise for collimating lenses, because the waist-level finder has a magnifier in it that should make it easier to use for the job than my F3 (yes, you read that right, because I have to take the prism off to use it!) - with the new Jupiter-11A fitted. I recall a thread Elsewhere where someone asked why SLRs hadn't instantly supplanted rangefinders in the 1950s and I could say, having used a 1950s SLR, "Have you ever used one?". This is it - no coupling of the aperture, just focus on a screen with no assistance and, worst of all, the mirror doesn't return until you cock that shutter - really disconcerting if you haven't come across it before! Finally - how's your Russian? We've got most of it - it says "Fotoobjectiv Jupiter 11", not sure about the bottom line on the left, but on the right is clearly "Zenit" so maybe "to fit"? The letters are evidently DLJ - could they be Russian for SLR?
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Post by zx9 on Aug 14, 2023 8:58:04 GMT
Here's my Edixa Reflex, built by Wirgin of Dresden, and the lens it came with, a Steinheil Cassar - a triplet obviously meant to sound like a Tessar! Then there it is in its new guise for collimating lenses, because the waist-level finder has a magnifier in it that should make it easier to use for the job than my F3 (yes, you read that right, because I have to take the prism off to use it!) - with the new Jupiter-11A fitted. I recall a thread Elsewhere where someone asked why SLRs hadn't instantly supplanted rangefinders in the 1950s and I could say, having used a 1950s SLR, "Have you ever used one?". This is it - no coupling of the aperture, just focus on a screen with no assistance and, worst of all, the mirror doesn't return until you cock that shutter - really disconcerting if you haven't come across it before! Finally - how's your Russian? We've got most of it - it says "Fotoobjectiv Jupiter 11", not sure about the bottom line on the left, but on the right is clearly "Zenit" so maybe "to fit"? The non instant return mirror lived on in medium format SLR cameras right to the end of the film era despite other innovations like TTL metering, open aperture viewing with automatic stop down etc. All things people lived and worked with which today's DSLR or mirrorless users don't have to worry about. |
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Post by peterba on Aug 14, 2023 15:02:20 GMT
The non instant return mirror lived on in medium format SLR cameras right to the end of the film era despite other innovations like TTL metering, open aperture viewing with automatic stop down etc. All things people lived and worked with which today's DSLR or mirrorless users don't have to worry about.
Yep - it's probably the only thing about my SQ-A that I dislike... and that, alone, is probably the reason that the camera gets less use than it properly deserves.  |
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