Recent content by Flighter

Merry Christmas everyone, hope you all have a great day. As for presents, I'm very pleased to have got Gerjan van Oosten's "The Definitive Asahi Pentax Collector's Guide 1952-1977"

Can’t ask for more than that. Lovely pictures, great reflections!

Yes, overtones of the sixties Batman TV show!

Most of my photography is done walking the dogs, one of which has to be kept on the lead, so having to use a separate meter is a bit cumbersome. Also, I like to have everything on a camera working, especially this camera, as my parents bought it for me back in the 70s and I therefore have a...

Thanks, that confirms what I read elsewhere that the wire is glued to the body in a couple of places and that the mirror box will need to come out. I've picked up the remains of an OM1 off Ebay that I plan to use as a practice for extracting the mirror box and will have a go next year when I...

Excellent, glad to hear it all worked out. I haven't had any luck trying to get solder to adhere to the terminal in the battery holder of my OM1, despite cleaning the terminal, heating it (removed from the battery holder) to a hot enough temperature to melt the solder and using a RMA223 flux...

It’s against the cat creed to be impressed by anything

Nice work! Replacing the light seals is a job I hate. Are you going to add a diode to drop the voltage so that an SR44 battery can be used as a replacement for the old 1.35v mercury cells? I've got an OM1 with the same battery lead issue and think I may also need to upgrade my iron as well...

I haven’t seen any UK ads yet. Kodacolor

I can remember playing with liquid mercury as a kid, holding it in my hands. There were always globules of mercury in the gaps in the tongue and groove floor boards in the science labs at school. Changed days! I wonder if I'm now a walking health hazard :thinking: We also had good fun with...

Yes, respooled Vision3 is available on the Bay for a similar price for either 30 or 36 exposures, although there is the extra hassle of removing the remjet and if C-41 process is used instead of ECN-2 there are issues with colour crossover, etc. I find C-41 does have the benefit of having a...

Well, it’s good in as much as any film processing shop can deal with it as it just goes through the normal C-41 line and no problems with having to remove the remjet coating first. On the (possibly) bad side, it's a newish film so probably not as polished as ColorPlus or Gold, reviews have been...

Appears to be marketed by GT Company (no idea) who have a license to use the AgfaPhoto name. No idea what their delivery charge is but their web site lists it for €17.99 or £15.00 … but does say it is 'buy one, get one free'.

I think I was wrong re remjet. The label on the cannister refers to C-41 process so I'm now thinking Orwo NC400.

Hard to be certain given the picture on Amazon but looks like it has a remjet coating so ECN-2 process rather than C-41?