Recent content by vladimir

Haha, thank you! Old indeed, but in its day it had a very good reputation. All I have to do now is wait for that sunny day, as the exposure parameters are quite limited. I once found a roll of Ektachrome 400 in a kitchen drawer, expired in 1993 or thereabouts - shot it at box speed and had it...

I just got my hands on a bunch of expired film - some Perutz 100, Koinka 100, some no-name Jessops and so on. But (to me at least) the most interesting one is a roll of Kodak Ektar 25. Yup, 25 :D It didn't come in a box, so I have no idea when it expired, although I suspect its more than...

I absolutely love photography (well, that was a revelation, what with me being on this forum and all that) but lately I haven't been able to give it much time. You know, a combination of work and other stuff conspired against me; I'm sure we all go through similar periods of inactivity. I also...

...aaah, that little rangefinder looks sweet! My local charity shop (read Oxfam) has started to keep its cameras under lock and key - or at least somewhere upstairs in the manager's office. I have to make a special appointment to be able to look at them and make matters worse, they hiked the...

I think RaglanSurf already said everything that needed to be said. Have fun with it, its a great little camera. I got a minty one a few weeks ago and I was very pleasantly surprised at how solid and well made it felt. My only advice would be to use SR44 batteries, as opposed to the more commonly...

Hiya Chris, sorry for the slight delay in replying, I have been away on holiday and without internet. I think mine arrived yesterday - I found a note from Royal Mail on my doorstep: apparently there's a package waiting at the local collection centre. I'm assuming this is the film I ordered as I...

Chris, thank you for the link! Just ordered a grab bag as well.

Thank you for clarifying that for me! It genuinely sounds like a lovely little camera; I'm probably going to sell some of the stuff I don't use to finance the new toy...

Your ME is quite a bit older than I am! I love that, the thought of an ancient camera happily chugging away, oblivious to its digital cousins (whom I suspect are nowhere near as sturdy). ...as for the MX, what can I say? You're a bad influence: there I was, trying to convince myself I have...

Sir, I am silently doffing my hat in your direction! A truly impressive stash! ...and some of the others are pretty sweet too... Mine is fairly small - only about 60 rolls, stuff I picked up (relatively) cheaply in shops and off Ebay. The problem is, I don't seem to have used it that much...

Confusing? Hehe, that sounds like a Russian SLR! If I remember right, my first camera was a Smena-8 and it was supposed to be aimed at young people (or at least to get them interested in photography). All I remember is that it was very fiddly and hard to use - and I'm saying this from the point...

Aye Steve, the ME is a little gem. Really compact and unobtrusive (smaller than an OM-2n!), and what's more, the shutter sound is really sweet! It feels like a genuinely well engineered piece of kit, and those Pentax lenses are not to be sniffed at either. Interestingly, I found out not too...

The Zenits were built like tanks, in true soviet fashion - mind you, the quality on them was sometimes a bit hit and miss... I remember my dad had one of those when I was little and he used it extensively; many years later, I dug out the camera and guess what, it worked like a charm. In fact, I...

Thank you! Glad to have found you, I was looking for a nice UK based photo community where I can indulge my love of photography :-)

My latest Oxfam find: a minty Pentax ME Super, together with a generic Cosina f1.8 50mm lens. I found it languishing at the bottom of a basket full of plastic toy cameras - and right under it, joy of joys, a lovely little Olympus MJU II! The whole lot was mine for £15; £5 for the Oly, and £10...