Analog film photography and cameras

Super Graphic I bought was not as good condition as described, pretty fucked off.

Shutter sticky at slow speeds, faulty seals, fungus in the lens, ground glass also appears to be suffering from something. Tried firing the shutter a load but no improvement yet.

Gah

No chance from an ebay seller who just sells all sorts? There are loads of them around. I buy 90% of my stuff now at auction, and my only competition are random trinket/collectables dealers/wannabes, who see me buying a camera for £5 and sell for £100 and think they can do it themselves. Only they don't realise the amount of knowledge, hours of skilled work to service/clean/repair cameras and lenses, check them over etc. (i.e. I've just spent 2hours+ cleaning out dust and grease from an olympus lens).
99% of them just put them up on ebay as 'shutter works, but I don't know anything about cameras therefore tough' kind of attitude, yet most of them still achieve nearly as much, sometimes more than I get, mental eh!

Which is the best XA model to go for?

anyone owns a voigtlander bessa R?

I own an Epson R-D1s which is very similar to an R2A.

I own an Epson R-D1s which is very similar to an R2A.

which beers do you go to? Can i have a go at it, never used a RF before, would love to give it a try if you dont mind

Which is the best XA model to go for?

XA is the bestest, but XA2 is good enough and less monies

http://www.diaxa.com/xastart.htm

Thank you.

^^ read through that whole site before buying an unused, boxed XA at the bay for less than sixty.
All the info you need to compare the different models - find out what you're after!
And don't listen to what they say about film on that site, it's outdated.
Got really nice results with Kodak Portra; Ektar too, though skin tones were a bit meh with the Ektar.
Also take a look at Ken's XA site - more 'professional'.

When I was looking for a point and shoot some weeks ago I first fancied the Yashica
T3 with it's wonderful T*-coated f2,8/35 Zeiss lens, by the way.
Check those out, if autofocus is an option for you, they're sharrrrrp!

Ah, by the way - does anybody know how to kill the XA's annoying beep while on self timer?!

Which is the best XA model to go for?

I'm selling my XA if you want it, Andy? I give you good plice.

which beers do you go to? Can i have a go at it, never used a RF before, would love to give it a try if you dont mind

The ones in Glasgow I'm afraid. Sorry, hoped it'd be a query I could answer on here.

Full 'XA' is the only true rangefinder, the others are just twist and guess the focus.

XA £50-100
XA2 £25-60
XA3 "
XA4 "
XA1 £5-25

There are other olympus RFs that are worth a look, but more involved to use, namely olympus 35RC/35RD etc One of them has a sex lens (have it tucked away, its the zuiko.g lens? might be the 35RD, but the 35RC is the smallest, pretty much same size/weight as the XA's

anyone owns a voigtlander bessa R?

got an r3a

got an r3a

can I give it a try if you dont mind, I will pay in beer :) I go to easts and norths (occasionally)

A few from Bilbao last year. Yashica T5 and Portra 400NC (I think). I like finding random rolls of film.

Hope it's ok to post this in both photo threads because I want to trade a digital thing for a non digital thing.

I have - A Metz Mecablitz 54 AF-1 N Nikon dedicated ttl flash. I've put batteries in it and tried it on my X100 to make sure it fires - it does - but otherwise unused. It's boxed with manual and is absolutely mint condition.

I want - A dedicated spot meter. Ie not a reflective meter with an attachment. Soligor, Minolta Pentax??? etc I'm not fussy.

I'm in Glasgow so trade would need to be postal.

A few from Bilbao last year. Yashica T5 and Portra 400NC (I think). I like finding random rolls of film.

HOT PICS. I love the look of that film.

yeah good colours. I like the first and last one the most. the others are close seconds.

Just upped some new stuff

More here as usual

can I give it a try if you dont mind, I will pay in beer :) I go to easts and norths (occasionally)

well?

CRAP!
Yet again brickman has been to the auctions and picked up another boot load of cameras, FFS have to stop doing this :s
1st up, found a really interesting kodak, never seen/heard of this one before, its a Kodak Recomar 18 - with a zeiss tessar lens no less - folds up tiny just about the size of a galaxy S3, but about 3x the thickness and weight (fits in a jacket pocket). Yet its a full blown 6.5x9cm medium format camera with rise/fall and side to side (forget the term?), and a pop out viewing shade on the back, really trick! But shutter is stuck between speeds, so its another for the 'will fix it one day' pile, glass is sex clean.

Comes in a slightly larger (TLR type) case with about 6 slides for it. However the week befores auction there was a 6x9 RADA rollfilm back (NOS) and I was going to get it, but then forgot, went for £2 in with a pile of other NOS random stuff. But now I really really could do with it as it would allow me to use a bunch of these plate cameras with standard 120 roll film, grrrrr. I'm trying to work out who bought it as they will likely just chuck it out, damn!

Next up, the big one, might have spent slightly too much on it, but its like bloody new. Approx 1920-1935 Thornton Pickard Reflex, takes a 1/4 plate (2.5x4"ish) and comes in its own hard/leather travel case with 6 or 8 single plate holders.
Now, large format view type cameras are common, but never knew that it was even possible to make an SLR large format, but thats what it is!

Handles a bit like a TLR on steroids as its around 4x the size of a rollei/yashica 120 TLR.
You can view on the back via the plate/ground glass but its obviously flipped vertically, or via the mirror and the viewing hood (soft leather) (which has a square plate as you can flip the internal mirror + plate holder 90 degrees to take landscape profile photos.
Shutter even claims it goes up to 1/1000 which I seriously doubt for a roll shutter, but still it tries. Operates very easily, and can take various lenses if you can bothered to change them, though the stock cooke 150mm gives the equiv of about 50-60mm in 35mm terms?
Can't wait to use the damn thing, though again wish I had a roll film holder and a decent scanner.

That looks like a beast to use. I'm going down to the auctions later, weirdly, there is one of those Thorntons in a box with an interesting looking rangefinder so I might end up with one too.

Think when I move am going to make a decent dedicated darkroom and start producing wet plates, if only for indoor/portrait use, just because they are so damn epic.

Last night took the plate holder off it (quarter plate) and tried to figure out what the max size of plate the image circle would allow, not quite 5x4! But just under 4x4" would be nice :p I'm a sucker for square format.

I am busy converting a garage in to a darkroom/study at the mo. The latest instalment - with links to previous posts - is here for those who may be interested.

Your Jobo is amazing! I want so many things. Humph.

These are noice! Hamburg looked pretty wet.