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• #3052
At the start of the summer I bought a 1920s Ensign box camera for £2 at a car boot sale, and bodged some 35mm into it:
Unfortunately the film scanner at uni is broken so this is just a photo of the neg (you can see the reflection of the camera, reversed of course). Looks promising though. I was a bit over-cautious with the winding so I only got 8 exposures on a roll - I could get 12 on if I wound it a bit less.
It's quite good for a cheap box camera in that it has two shutter speeds (1/30ish and B) and three apertures (don't know what they are).
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• #3053
Would just like to +1 to ag-photographic. Really quick service, great prices. My go-to guys now - screw 7dayshop.
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• #3054
I've had three orders with Ag and something has gone wrong with every one of them. I know they can't subsidise delivery but if you are going to charge eight pounds at least get it out in a week. That said, I'll still be placing an order next week.
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• #3055
I've posted this in the digital thread but since there's a film body in the kit I'll post here too, a girl I was working with a wee while ago is looking to shift some camera kit and I said I'd put the word out for her.
It's Pentax kit, a 6mp Pentax ist DL2 6MP DSLR camera
Pentax SMC DA lens 18-55
Pentax SMC DA lens 50-200Pentax MZ 60 SLR Film camera body
Sigma 28-90 aspherical lens with 90 macro (=42-135 on digital)
Sigma 100-300 (=150-450 on digital)She is looking for £299 posted.
It's up on Gumtree here.
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• #3056
Came across this earlier, might be useful for the folding camera people
http://www.rolandandcaroline.co.uk/html/isolette_bellows.html
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• #3057
I've had three orders with Ag and something has gone wrong with every one of them. I know they can't subsidise delivery but if you are going to charge eight pounds at least get it out in a week. That said, I'll still be placing an order next week.
Matt is currently in the throes of moving to bigger premises which may explain any recent problems. Always got my orders in a couple of days.
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• #3058
Hi everyone, thought i'd do a quick post with the intention of bending everyones ear for product - i'm after a spare 120 back (or rather just the cartridge if possible) for my Mamiya RB67 Pro-s. My winder has cut loose and needs a good old service. does anyone know of anywhere reliable / cheap to buy spares like this?
www.flickr.com/digitolliehttp://www.flickr.com/digitollie
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• #3059
Lae, sweet box shots, have any more? What did you do for a viewfinder or just guess ? ;)
I have an ensign box somewhere, shot some 120 slide on it but haven't got round to dev :sMacready, bellows template is epic :) will have too have a bash at making some.
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• #3060
Developed the first roll from the XA-2 a while ago and forgot to post the results...
It's a nifty little bugger.
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• #3061
looks really good, what film is that?
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• #3062
Fuji xtra 100. Its a really nice little camera and feels really solid. The focal length is just right.
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• #3063
If any-one has a decent neg scanner, I'd be really grateful if I could get about ten pictures scanned?
^^those are just scans of the actual prints done on my shitty flatbed.
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• #3064
What film are you using there Lae? Lucky what?
At the start of the summer I bought a 1920s Ensign box camera for £2 at a car boot sale, and bodged some 35mm into it:
Unfortunately the film scanner at uni is broken so this is just a photo of the neg (you can see the reflection of the camera, reversed of course). Looks promising though. I was a bit over-cautious with the winding so I only got 8 exposures on a roll - I could get 12 on if I wound it a bit less.
It's quite good for a cheap box camera in that it has two shutter speeds (1/30ish and B) and three apertures (don't know what they are).
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• #3066
How keen are you Brickman? ;)
Holy crap!
And the guy is MOVING across to large format only!?!? Who said film is dead.
That Ektar only went for £65 last week, gutted, a bare £1.25 a roll for well in date stock, can't win them all! (By winning I mean I didn't actually bid).
Half way through a roll of Rollei RPX100 120 on an Ensign selfix 820 special 6x9 folder. I had forgotton how lovely the 6x9 format is to shoot, so took it into the lakes with some dogs who spent the entire time getting in the shots and wrapping the lead around the tripod and tipping it at the crucial moment, should lead to some interesting results!
Rollei have crazy amounts of markings on the back of film, on first load thought I had somehow buggered it up as dozens and dozens of strange markings flew past the tiny red window, till eventually {1} appeared. Shot it, moved on, then on next wind found that it actually wasn't 1, but just a weird symbol.
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• #3067
What film are you using there Lae? Lucky what?
Lucky SHD 100 35mm
Lae, sweet box shots, have any more? What did you do for a viewfinder or just guess ? ;)
Yep, film scanner is still broken (and apparently might not be replaced as "I'm the only sod who uses it" according to the technician) so I backlit the negs against a sheet of marker paper which was taped to my monitor, then took a photo. Not a great way of doing it but it worked, sort of:
The camera has two brilliant finders which are were used to compose. It also has a pull-out frame finder but I didn't use it.
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• #3069
Some shots from my Hexar that I printed recently.
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• #3070
nice!
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• #3071
what film btw?
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• #3072
Cheers, it's Tri-X devved in R09.
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• #3073
Ah tri-x I love that film, pushed to 1600-3200 it looks great. I've noticed my Sigma DP1 (digital ah wrong thread!) looks very much like that at the same ISO.
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• #3074
I tried pushin it before but I was trying to dev it in super dilute chemistry and do stand developing and never had much luck.
The Hexar has a max shutter speed of just 1/250th so that kinda limits the speed of film you can use if your shooting in daylight at all.
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• #3075
Those B&W are the balls, good work.
Yup, I nearly pulled the same trick, but then tried to figure the logistics of trying to remove a huge 20kg+ electrical device from a large building that is crawling with people day & night with sec units posted at both doors. mmmmm.
Those nikons are dust magnets, and I don't think they are very easy to clean inside either, which seems a bit daft to me.