Recent content by Grimy Miner

Guys, you are all correct. I have contacted the seller and he has agreed to take it back as he misidentified it - it is from a different model, probably an S2. A shame really, as it is beautifully clean, no optical problems at all. I will keep an eye out for a good one now I know the difference...

Hi, I have a Bronica EC and have just received a prism finder from Japan that was advertised as EC - ECTL fit. For the life of me I cannot get it to latch into the WLF housing. This is a pic of the finder, and of the camera. Have I bought/been sold the wrong one? Thanks George

Lol, I think he might have learned his lesson, maybe travel incognito? I wouldn't go your route though, I would go via Bishop Auckland, Staindrop ( pausing at Raby Castle for a couple of photos ), then onto Barney.

Thanks for the welcome, George, I'm also a GK Jnr (my Dad was GK Snr) - small planet :)

Thank you for the quick reply. Yes, I realise that I'll need an adapter with manual control and have to manual focus (like all my other adapters, Nikon, M42, L39, Olympus and MD). I was checking that the A mount was shared with the Sony A mount too. This seems to be the case. A K&D Concepts...

Hope to glean a bit of knowledge here. I have been gifted a Minolta Dynax 800i with some very nice glass, 3 lenses in total. Now, I intend to take some pics through it using that stuff called film, but my primary interest is slapping the glass onto my X-Mount bodies. To that end, is the...

Evening chaps and chapesses. George here from just outside Durham City (UK) 72 years old, been wielding a camera since I was 10, recently got into Fujifilm X-Mount gear - currently have X-A5, X-E1, X-E2s, X-E3, together with lenses including Viltrox 85mm, plus all my old lenses, film and...

For me, on my X-mount bodies:- Pentax Super Takumar 50mm f1.4 - bought from Japan. Beautiful lens, colours, Bokeh, everything - and radioactive too! Mamiya/Sekkor SX 50mm f2 - from an old Mamiya MSX500 that I still use for film. Tefnon 28mm f2.8 - got it cheap on a Minolta mount Olympus...