Recent content by Leif Shuttyr

Very true - which is why I said the original F meters take mercury batteries, not original F cameras :p

Only the original Nikon F meters used 1.35v mercury batteries; all F2’s use standard 1.5v silver oxide cells.

Yes that’s right (y)

I have two OM4s; it’s a fine camera. I did consider the OM2SP but there wasn’t a massive difference in price between the two models so I figured I may as well get the higher spec’ed model. BTW, not all OM4s have the battery drain problem. Later models have revised circuits that give improved...

Bit heavier than you were after, but Paper Spectrum sell their 300gsm Premium Lustre paper in a wide range of sizes including 8x6. I’ve used this paper and had good results.

In your position I’d download the free Adobe DNG converter and use that. Not only will the resulting DNG files be handled exactly like any other raw file by lightroom, but I’d imagine it’s probably a bit quicker than opening the files in ACR in Elements and resaving them. If you’re set on...

^^^Absolutely this^^^ Once you’ve dev’ed your first film! You’ll wonder what all the fuss was about :)

I was thinking about this recently. My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 126 which was a hand me down from my brother back in the 70’s when I was about 8 or 9. My first serious camera was my dads old Zenith in the late 80s after which I graduated to a number of better cameras. By the mid 90s I...

Who’s to say any other Russian lens you buy won’t also need work? If I were you I’d try and fix the one you have. You’ll need to strip the lens down a bit to lubricate the focussing ring, but it’s not rocket science. I relubed a Jupiter 8 LTM lens five or six years ago and it was pretty...

Soon there’ll be nobody left to service our older cameras :-(

I haven’t used Ed, but I’ve come across his name a lot on the internet and as far as I know he’s a well respected repairer. He’s certainly top of my list to contact if/when my Contax II needs any work doing. I guess if you google his name rather than europhotoservices, you’ll find lots of...

You didn’t use the self timer with the X/M flash sync lever set to M by any chance did you?

I've got three 16x12 prints hanging next to one another in my living room in Ribba frames. The oldest one is glazed with glass, the other two are newer with acrylic. I can't tell the difference. More annoying was that they changed the position of the hanging gubbins from the glass version to...

I've had good results from Pinnacle's Photo Lustre 300 which is available in 8x6. There's a review of it here.

I didn’t see the link but as I said the T120 is a 4 ink dye printer compared with to the Canon which is a 12 ink pigment printer, so quality wise, there’s quite a difference particularly if you’re thinking of selling prints. The IPF8100 doesn’t need a full set of inks at the moment by the sound...