Recent content by DaveHope

First time posting in probably a decade or more, after a hiatus from photography. In 2025 I picked up a Leica M3 and laterally a Nikon F3 (thus far avoided the lure of digital, except for low-light stuff which I'm using a D800 I picked up for film-scanning). I took the F3 to Kathmandu in...

Still earlt days for me. But so far: 1, Align with a mirror on the surface and center through viewfinder 2, definitely. Ive been using "helicon remote" for tethered capture to speed things up. A bit buggy on my phone, by fine on my PC. 3, I built a copy stand out of some ply and 15mm rod to...

Thanks. That's really quick for 3000!

I suspect the house clearance price range on Facebook marketplace will have long since lost those, but fingers crossed!

Thanks everyone. For a stand, my "plan" is probably to pick up an old enlarger and ditch the enlarger and just keep the copy stand. For now, I'll try just using my tripod. I did see the pixl-latr and think something like that and a Cinestill light will do the job. Thanks! How long is it...

Probably not. Looking at prices in the classifieds here and eBay, looks like a D300 would be ~£100 (or a D600 for ~£250) plus a "Nikon 55mm f/3.5" for ~£60 (or a "Nikkor 60mm f/2.8 AF-D Micro" for ~£150). Plus a holder/light source. Alright, maybe I need to give that some more thought.

Hah! I'll keep an eye out on the sale section for the V700 then (I saw the V850 thread before I posted, very jealous!)

Thanks everyone (especially @ChrisR for the long post, which I'd read previously). I've long since traded in anything digital to MBP and expect I'd get tempted by something new and shiny if I ended up looking at a camera for scanning, and then perhaps not use the film cameras as much. So trying...

I've picked up a 35mm rangefinder and a medium format (6x6) system camera and am loving the slower pace of things giving me more time to concentrate on the image, having sold my DSLR years ago. I'm currently shooting predominantly B&W, with occasional colour in both formats. A roll of film...

To be honest I hardly use filters these days as most stuff can be done in post processing. ND10 ND8 Polariser Hope I don't regret my chocie :)

I disagree. If you know the start of a production run has a serial number of, say, 200000 and you have 4 or 5 samples over a 5 year period it gives you a good idea. The real difficulty is that equipment can be sat on a shelf for a month before it sells. But I don't even think that'a major...

Ah. Good spot. In fairness, that only seems to list the start and end dates for production runs when things change. The goal of what I posted is to get as much data as possible so as to narrow down the date as closely as possible. Some lenses have been in production for 10 years, if you have a...

I've bought a fair bit of second hand kit recently (Nikkor 80-200 2.8, 17-55 2.8, 2.0 TC etc) and was after a decent, fairly accurate, way of dating the kit I was buying. In most cases the person I was buying from wasn't the original owner. So, I figured I'd put together a simple web page that...

I have a Crucial SSD (128Gb) in my laptop as the boot device and then a second disk in the CD tray (whoever uses CD/DVDs these days?) The second drive is a 500Gb 7200RPM disk and holds my lightroom photos and catalog. The main performance boost will come from running off another disk, no need...

Thanks for the warning, but it's the AF-S one :thumb: I guess I'll need to make the decision between renting a TC-20E or just rending the Sigma 150-500. Thanks for the sample pics and recommendations guys!