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...why I am here? Mainly because I can't bloody remember how the hell to use this and I just had a moment of madness and stuck a roll of OOD film in I found in a drawer. :banghead:

retina_2 by Yvonne White LBIPP - WhiteGoldImages, on Flickr

OK, I know it's a range finder, [retina IIc] but I seem to recall I have to twiddle something on the front and... aarrgghh....
 
You're very welcome.

If I ever come into money I'm gonna send that guy a few hundred. All my old camera manuals have come from him.
 
Oh my, what chance are we gunna av in June at the Mega Meet??:confused:.....We best have a display board of Butkus instructions for all the film kit we're taking otherwise all we're gunna be asked by bewildered digiyites is " which bit do i look through" ....:D:D:D:D
 
I know that LCE had forgotten that film SLRs existed when they were advertising a £150 trade in against ANY SLR. Only about 15x the real value of an old F65 with sticky rubbers... After a little... friendly discussion with head office, they honoured the deal (to their credit). Come to think of it, I even still have the box, manual etc. in the loft!
 
Yv said:
I meant the light value reading thingy, not the bloody focusing ring, before you injure yourself choking with laughter :p
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Asha said:
Oh my, what chance are we gunna av in June at the Mega Meet??:confused:.....We best have a display board of Butkus instructions for all the film kit we're taking otherwise all we're gunna be asked by bewildered digiyites is " which bit do i look through" ....:D:D:D:D
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They can't all be as daft as this thing, I remember setting up the C330 I borrowed without any trouble at all, it was sort of self explanatory. It was just the light reading settings that threw me, for the life of me couldn't remember what I did with the scale last time I used it but a quick read reminded me. Still doing the maths though and have to fiddle it a little because the table in the book doesn't take into account film higher than 100, but I have stuck 400 in it :D

Hardly a surprise I forgot though, the last time I used it was 2009!! :eek: Obviously I knew what to do with it then, I posted a couple of the test shots on flickr. Hadn't realised it had been that long.

27400009 by Yvonne White LBIPP - WhiteGoldImages, on Flickr

27400022 by Yvonne White LBIPP - WhiteGoldImages, on Flickr

Wonder what I did with the negs? :thinking:
 
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Yv said:
It was just the light reading settings that threw me,
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That's why you digiyites shoot in machine gun mode and hope for the best! :exit::D
 
Asha said:
That's why you digiyites shoot in machine gun mode and hope for the best! :exit::D
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:bat: I could go off you you know!! Some of us shoot differently, hell, some of us can even set them up manually without having to resort to holding a light meter OR the inbuilt metering, just bloody neanderthal :p
 
:lol: Have to admit, just took it out for a test run whilst doing the dog walk as the sun had come out and it does drive me mad, trying to persuade it to use the shutter speed and aperture I want and hurting my fingers adjusting the light value twiddly thing. Could be why I never used it again :lol: The retina is a far easier beast to use even if I have to judge focusing distance and the light meter doesn't work. Anyway, will be interesting to see if I managed to get any well exposed and in focus pictures of two jack russells scrabbling about in a pile of logs for any rodents ;)
 
Setting the hyperfocal distance on those RFs' , is something of a finger-shredder!
 
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