Just for fun - what's it like these days?

Well the Yashica has arrived, and is as described, more or less... The shutter fires but is occasionally sticky. The seller described the light seals as "sticky" but I think he should have used the word "missing". Other than that I suppose I didn't do bad for £4.20.

I was in Asda this lunch time so thought I would see if they had any film. I wasn't expecting Ilford or anything, but I was shocked to find they only have one type - Fujifilm 400. When I asked, the guy just looked at me blankly, he honestly didn't know what I meant by 35mm film and at first offered me a disposable camera :thinking:

Anyway, I got two films and will run one through the Yashica as it is first of all (will have to take a closer look at the light seal first though!) and the other one through the Zorki when it arrives.

I've heard of having these old cameras looked at by professionals - I think it's called CLA. Is this right? Sorry for my ignorance but as I said it's many years since I had a film camera. Anyway, does anyone know where I might be able to take the camera to have this done (hopefully locally to me - West Yorkshire) and a rough idea of how much it will cost?

When I've shot these first films and am happy the camera(s) work properly I will invest in some black and white I promise!!
 
picked up the nickname whilst up in scotland climbing with a bunch of lads from Glasgow - i'd gone up there with my mate who's about 5'6" and i'm quite a bit taller, when we were tied in and ready to climb, we'd shout "tied in" and get the reply "is that the big yin or the wee yin ?", and the name kind of stuck. Started off as a nick on a climbing website, then a couple of MTB ones, and followed through onto here! So, to answer your question, i'm not THE Big Yin - just another Big Hairy !:lol:
 
TheBigYin said:
and maybe Dale Photographic in leeds for the CLA?? (they're in the Merrion Centre - up on the balcony iirc)
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Still waiting for my A1 squeak repair from them.
T'be fair, I've only enquired once and that was a month ago.
I'd never leave a 120 camera this long....
 
sava pichure then, or it never happened..:D
 
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I'm staggerd by the number of peeps at this forum, that take as serious an interest in their push irons as they do their photography.......:thinking:
 
Cowasaki & Ekimeno are the same, doubtless there are a lot more, I can't see the connection.....you nutters :lol:
 
I've been taking it easy on the bike this year - still done more miles on the pushbike than I have in the car mind, but quite a bit less than last years 5.5k :)

And I do have to admit, i've streamlined the bike collection a bit now - down to 2 Mtb's, 3 roadbikes, a cyclo-crosser, a touring bike, winter hack bike and most of a tandem - though at least 4 of them are worth more than the entire camerabag :lol: I've been obsessive about bikes for over 30 years though - a bit longer than camera's.
 
joxby said:
Cowasaki & Ekimeno are the same, doubtless there are a lot more, I can't see the connection.....you nutters :lol:
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I'm still on STW as well. Cameras and biking, it's the perfect combination, out for a ride (I don't do the road bike thing) camera in the backpack, loads of landscape ops. It's also a great chance to get my breath back without appearing to be too fat and unfit :D
 
Me to - I have some pictures of beautiful places I have had to stop and fix punctures in :D

Arthur
 
pepper said:
APOLOGIES to the thread owner, we've drifted rather Off Topic.
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The best conversations should have a start, a middle and an end :thumbs: Nothing in the rules about which direction it should go in!

Besides I don't have any developed film yet.

I went to Dale Photographic on Saturday to enquire about CLA for the Yashica, but they were closed. I could hardly believe they close at lunchtime on a Saturday, but never mind. I've won a Leningrad 4 lightmeter I'm going to use in conjunction with the Zorki, just waiting for it to arrive.
 
TheBigYin said:
I've been taking it easy on the bike this year - still done more miles on the pushbike than I have in the car mind, but quite a bit less than last years 5.5k :)

And I do have to admit, i've streamlined the bike collection a bit now - down to 2 Mtb's, 3 roadbikes, a cyclo-crosser, a touring bike, winter hack bike and most of a tandem - though at least 4 of them are worth more than the entire camerabag :lol: I've been obsessive about bikes for over 30 years though - a bit longer than camera's.
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I call cabs :D
 
I love shops that still close for lunch, reminds us of a time gone past where shops that don't open on Sundays, half day closing, lunch hours and even shops that close down for two weeks for their summer holidays are all things of the past!

Tis why I bought a house in Western France. I love not having shopping going on 24/7 having to plan for shop closures isn't hard. We don't really need all this convenience for the customer all the time do we?

Shops that still close for lunch should be celebrated (pain in the bum that it is when we want to go to the shops during our lunch hour.
 
They hadn't closed for lunch, they'd closed for the day, at lunchtime, on a Saturday, two weeks before Christmas. Although I share your sentiments to a point, in this day and age I find it quite bizarre.
 
pepper said:
I love shops that still close for lunch, reminds us of a time gone past where shops that don't open on Sundays, half day closing, lunch hours and even shops that close down for two weeks for their summer holidays are all things of the past!

Tis why I bought a house in Western France. I love not having shopping going on 24/7 having to plan for shop closures isn't hard. We don't really need all this convenience for the customer all the time do we?

Shops that still close for lunch should be celebrated (pain in the bum that it is when we want to go to the shops during our lunch hour.
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I sometimes find myself on campus 8-6 and that leaves vvv little time for shopping I've come unstuck and had empty cupboards because of that before :S
 
pepper said:
I love shops that still close for lunch, reminds us of a time gone past where shops that don't open on Sundays, half day closing, lunch hours and even shops that close down for two weeks for their summer holidays are all things of the past!
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A few years ago, a friend went to Ulverston in Cumbria. It's the home of the Laurel and Hardy museum and was also Stan Laurel's home town.

He said there was a café in the town which closed for lunch!


Steve.
 
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