OFFICIAL I HAVE A NEW (FILM RELATED) TOY THREAD!!

narbs said:
Thought I'd give one of these a go, another ebay bargain!

Physically in very good condition, just put a roll of Poundland special in and off to give it a test.
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One thing I discovered when googling potential sticky apertures is that if you set the Trip to f2,8 it won't necessarily use that - because of the fixed shutter speed it will choose an appropriate aperture up to the one chosen.

I'd convinced myself it wasn't working properly as the aperture varied when I tested it without film in the office.
 
Oh man, I have some major Rolleicord GAS at the moment. Was looking at prices of the V's on ebay for a different thread and now I have a big craving for one. must. not. buy :sulk:
 
Mike-a said:
Enter Nikon FG number two, currently winging its way from Japan. Cheap auction win that I really didn't expect to win.
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They are great, vastly under-appreciated cameras. Sure, they have some electronics in them, and they were a prosumer model at best. But they have program mode (missing from virtually all Nikons of that era), they were lighter than many of the other Nikon models (whilst still being very sturdy), and they are good value on the used market. Enjoy!

Carl Hall said:
Oh man, I have some major Rolleicord GAS at the moment. Was looking at prices of the V's on ebay for a different thread and now I have a big craving for one. must. not. buy :sulk:
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The IV and V, in particular, are excellent cameras - the Xenar lenses offer excellent rendering. The price of Yashica Mat and other 'budget TLR' cameras have continued to increase, but Rolleicords have stayed relatively stable in price (for good user examples, not shelf queens).
 
freecom2 said:
They are great, vastly under-appreciated cameras. Sure, they have some electronics in them, and they were a prosumer model at best. But they have program mode (missing from virtually all Nikons of that era), they were lighter than many of the other Nikon models (whilst still being very sturdy), and they are good value on the used market. Enjoy!
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On a happier note I've managed to get my Father in laws FG working, bit of lemon juice and some very fine sandpaper have sorted the battery compartment out and it turns out the bottom contact was also bent down too far to even reach the batteries.
 
Oops. :oops: :$
 
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There is a lovely Pentax 645N in classified for sale looking for carrying home :)
 
Just received a Pentax-A 28-80 mm f/3.5 zoom, got off the evil bay for under a tenner delivered. I was expecting scratches and/or fungus galore, but it looks in pretty good nick; cleaning marks on the front surface is all that's apparent. Seller an auction house, so perhaps not aware he could well have started this at a higher bid (and described it accurately, rather than a 80mm zoom!). I've not used zooms on my manual Pentaxes much; my Tamron 85-210 is heavy and uncomfortably balanced, so doesn't get much use. This lens feels much better on the camera, and might have been useful in the Lakes, if it's any good... Downside is 58mm filter size rather than 49mm for nearly all my other Pentax lenses.
 
I bought a Nikon FG body from a seller on ebay advertised as spares or repair. A couple of spare batteries and a quick clean of the contacts repaired it. That cost £10.70



A week later and I bought a Nikon N90s body with MF-26 back for £12.70 from the same seller. This camera was also listed as not working but the description and pictures showed it as working, but with a sticky back. I unstuck that but the frame counter was still on 8 even with no film in. Luckily this cleared by activating the rewind. I put a couple of CR2025s in the back and everything is working well.
 
freecom2 said:
The IV and V, in particular, are excellent cameras - the Xenar lenses offer excellent rendering. The price of Yashica Mat and other 'budget TLR' cameras have continued to increase, but Rolleicords have stayed relatively stable in price (for good user examples, not shelf queens).
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Definitely. Of my 70 cameras, my Rolleicord V has the sharpest lens. If I could only keep one camera, that would be it. I would choose it over my Rolleiflex.

Today, I saw a nice black Canon AE in a charity shop for £26. I decided that I needed another system like a fish needs a bicycle so I left it there... I might go back for it later!


Steve.
 
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Steve Smith said:
Definitely. Of my 70 cameras, my Rolleicord V has the sharpest lens. If I could only keep one camera, that would be it. I would choose it over my Rolleiflex.

Today, I saw a nice black Canon AE in a charity shop for £26. I decided that I needed another system like a fish needs a bicycle so I left it there... I might go back for it later!


Steve.
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H'mm unless you need the AE camera for your collection..... but for use, after owning or using all the A models, would be the A1, but the Canon cough on the A models can be annoying :( and has to be fixed as it will get worse and the first symptom is the mirror operation slows down.
If you want to use FD lenses with a bit of automation with a consumer camera there is not much to choose i.e. camera without faults and one of the reason I use a particular Canon model ;) Of course any A model camera that have been serviced and look after, it still a good camera for any newbie (of course not referring to you) who wants one.
 
Steve Smith said:
^ Actually, it might have been an A1. I will have to go back to look.


Steve.
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You might be lucky and it would have the 50mm f1.4 lens (like mine) (y) Other than the normal checks AV TV etc, put the camera to your ear and it should sound like any other camera firing (quieter than some I own) any cough and you will hear it (my ones sounded like a muffled sneeze)...next take the lens off and see if the mirror is working fast...good luck and it would be a good buy at that price.
 
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I recently bought a Pentax ME Super body from a seller on ebay for £10.07. The only issue with this body is that the cover of the wind on lever is missing. At the same time I bought a Ricoh Adaptall 2 mount so I can use my Tamron lenses with it.
 
In a Cash Converters yesterday I saw a Vivitar 17-28mm f4-4.5 with Nikon AI-S mount for £24.99 and put a deposit on it. From what I have seen this is a rebadged Samyang 18-28mm. Does anyone have this lens? Is it any good?
 
Manwithacam said:
In a Cash Converters yesterday I saw a Vivitar 17-28mm f4-4.5 with Nikon AI-S mount for £24.99 and put a deposit on it. From what I have seen this is a rebadged Samyang 18-28mm. Does anyone have this lens? Is it any good?
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It's terrible. Wrap it in Christmas paper and send it to me!


Steve.
 
I did get a very nice history of photography through 50 cameras and a box of portraits 400 but that's shallot.

Andy
 
Got an Epson V550 & my fiancee got me a Nikon F3 t shirt. Has a picture of an F3 T with an MD- 4 & a 250 exposure back. Quite like it.
 
My previous 'oops' was the purchase of a very nice Zeiss Contax Sonnar 2.8 135 T*
 
Hello:)

Not been on the site for a while. Bought a Canon EOS 5 today from a friend with a couple rolls of film and some batteries. Just looking on here for some advice on developing and choice of film.

Looking to get another 35 that doesn't use EF lenses, something more in the FD range, but I will get the film bug rolling with this for now
 
Grant1990 said:
Just looking on here for some advice on developing and choice of film
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Welcome (back) to the best bit of TP!

There's a developing sticky here - https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/tutorials/film-developing-in-the-uk.99/

If you fancy developing your own B&W, there's another here - https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-develop-your-first-b-w-film.114/

If there's a Poundland near you, they might have some AGFA VIsta colour negative film in stock at a £1 a roll. Otherwise, you can't go wrong with Portra for colour, and a bunch of different choices for B&W - Ilford and Kodak do several.
 
A nice man in Poland sent me a Noon 612 Pinhole camera. The Christmas Elves hid it away so that The Grinch wouldn't find out until it mysteriously found its way under the tree on Christmas Day morning. Along with 5 rolls of FP4 and promises not to buy any more camera gear ever, ever again. (Until next time.)
 
adrianday said:
A nice man in Poland sent me a Noon 612 Pinhole camera. The Christmas Elves hid it away so that The Grinch wouldn't find out until it mysteriously found its way under the tree on Christmas Day morning. Along with 5 rolls of FP4 and promises not to buy any more camera gear ever, ever again. (Until next time.)
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They're pretty good bits of wood. I did a mini review in here somewhere. It has a couple of foibles that are worth knowing about.
 
Grant1990 said:
Hello:)

Not been on the site for a while. Bought a Canon EOS 5 today from a friend with a couple rolls of film and some batteries. Just looking on here for some advice on developing and choice of film.

Looking to get another 35 that doesn't use EF lenses, something more in the FD range, but I will get the film bug rolling with this for now
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Hi Grant...I assume you might be fed up with all these "auto" cameras and a VG mechanical camera is the Canon FTb, if you have pots of money the F1...next up is the "A" range, well they are VG cameras but because of age could get the "Canon cough" and the mirror damping mechanism needs oiling a DIY job or off to be serviced, if you want a A camera the Canon A1 is my choice but it's a do everything camera so more things that could go wrong so buy it from someone reliable. Next up is the "T" range...well the T90 is one of the best cameras ever made but if not used can get the shutter sticking and many on the market have this problem and would think guys have switched to digi and left the T90 in the cupboard for years and they have this fault, so buy this camera from a reliable source. The other choice is the T70 and you can get this camera for peanuts and I have two and is my most used camera no faults other than it either works or doesn't being quite advanced on the electrical side.
If you don't mind not using FD lenses (as they are useless for EF cameras) then all the guys will join in with advice and good luck wading through.
BTW you could get a camera that only takes old screw lenses e.g. Pentax
 
steveo_mcg said:
They're pretty good bits of wood. I did a mini review in here somewhere. It has a couple of foibles that are worth knowing about.
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I read your review shortly before I committed to buy one and, as a result, I also bought myself a changing bag. Thank you most kindly for posting it. Taking it to the coast today. Time to see if I can perfect a winding technique that will prevent the take up spool being loosely wound. Quite looking forward to taking a few snappy snaps.
 
adrianday said:
I read your review shortly before I committed to buy one and, as a result, I also bought myself a changing bag. Thank you most kindly for posting it. Taking it to the coast today. Time to see if I can perfect a winding technique that will prevent the take up spool being loosely wound. Quite looking forward to taking a few snappy snaps.
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Glad to hear it helped!
 
abdoujaparov said:
Welcome (back) to the best bit of TP!

There's a developing sticky here - https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/tutorials/film-developing-in-the-uk.99/

If you fancy developing your own B&W, there's another here - https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-develop-your-first-b-w-film.114/

If there's a Poundland near you, they might have some AGFA VIsta colour negative film in stock at a £1 a roll. Otherwise, you can't go wrong with Portra for colour, and a bunch of different choices for B&W - Ilford and Kodak do several.
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Thanks I will have a read. I have recently came across lookslikefilm.comand seen some shots with different types of film etc so good to see what can be achieved.

The camera I bought came with a roll of Ilford 400 speed film which I accidentally rewinded.

I have 3 rolls of Fujicolour Superior x-tra 400 that came free from my friend. But yes I'm near about 8 poundlands. I will have a look, thanks!

For starting off where is ok to take my film to be developed?

excalibur2 said:
Hi Grant...I assume you might be fed up with all these "auto" cameras and a VG mechanical camera is the Canon FTb, if you have pots of money the F1...next up is the "A" range, well they are VG cameras but because of age could get the "Canon cough" and the mirror damping mechanism needs oiling a DIY job or off to be serviced, if you want a A camera the Canon A1 is my choice but it's a do everything camera so more things that could go wrong so buy it from someone reliable. Next up is the "T" range...well the T90 is one of the best cameras ever made but if not used can get the shutter sticking and many on the market have this problem and would think guys have switched to digi and left the T90 in the cupboard for years and they have this fault, so buy this camera from a reliable source. The other choice is the T70 and you can get this camera for peanuts and I have two and is my most used camera no faults other than it either works or doesn't being quite advanced on the electrical side.
If you don't mind not using FD lenses (as they are useless for EF cameras) then all the guys will join in with advice and good luck wading through.
BTW you could get a camera that only takes old screw lenses e.g. Pentax
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Yeah, even though I tend to shoot manual on my digital anyway but it would be nice to have the whole manual feel and waiting to see the images later on! I recently sold my 5D mkiii and lenses I had as I have a kid on the way but missed the camera way too much and took a few steps back and got a pretty dated Canon 20D which has a lack of 'features' compared to the 5D,

I always like the look of the AE-1 camera and some of the manual lenses look brilliant. The T70 looks like a good choice too. Will pick something up soon thats for sure.
 
Grant1990 said:
For starting off where is ok to take my film to be developed?
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Some ASDAs do development - they're pretty much the cheapest round. Otherwise you have Max Spielmann, SnappySnaps, Boots on the high street, and many online places. Check out the thread I linked above for a long list of them.

The Fuji Superior is a perfectly fine film, btw.
 
Grant1990 said:
Thanks I will have a read. I have recently came across lookslikefilm.comand seen some shots with different types of film etc so good to see what can be achieved.

The camera I bought came with a roll of Ilford 400 speed film which I accidentally rewinded.

I have 3 rolls of Fujicolour Superior x-tra 400 that came free from my friend. But yes I'm near about 8 poundlands. I will have a look, thanks!

For starting off where is ok to take my film to be developed?



Yeah, even though I tend to shoot manual on my digital anyway but it would be nice to have the whole manual feel and waiting to see the images later on! I recently sold my 5D mkiii and lenses I had as I have a kid on the way but missed the camera way too much and took a few steps back and got a pretty dated Canon 20D which has a lack of 'features' compared to the 5D,

I always like the look of the AE-1 camera and some of the manual lenses look brilliant. The T70 looks like a good choice too. Will pick something up soon thats for sure.
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Well I picked up my two T70 bodies for about £8 each about 5 years ago and at these prices if you don't like using the camera throw it away or give to a charity shop, but if you don't mind a tank the T90 is fantastic and got a mint one also about 4 or 5 years ago for £55, and the shutter works perfectly but do fire it about every 3 weeks just in case it wants to stick.

http://www.mir.SPAM/rb/photography/companies/canon/fdresources/SLRs/t70/index.htm
http://www.mir.SPAM/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/canont90/index.htm
..and Canon FD and FDn lenses are very good and most of them are cheaper than other makes because there were so many made....but the digi guys are ruining it for filmies as the new mirrorless cameras can take FD lenses so the prices are going up for the best lenses :(
 
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I've just purchased a Nikkormat EL on the bay. It's a brassed and dented camera, but for less than £10, I thought why not? I've always had an intrigue about the Nikkormat cameras, and the EL is the grandfather of two of my favourite 35mm cameras - the Nikon FE and FE2. It also retains many of the qualities of the F2, another firm favourite.
 
Well I like my FE too and can trust it, but to me the lens is more important than the camera body i.e. of my different makes of cameras, I can trust, they all take pictures and the only difference I can see is from the lens I use, but even then using each lens at their sweet spot it becomes more difficult to see the difference ......of course ignoring the heavy use by a pro.
Anyway thumbs up for the FE and thumbs down for the cost of Nikon lenses.
 
excalibur2 said:
Anyway thumbs up for the FE and thumbs down for the cost of Nikon lenses.
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That's the effect of extensive backwards compatibility, unfortunately. I've got a trusty 35mm f/2 that will probably be permanently attached to it!
 
Nice to have a set of the best Nikon (or Contax) lenses and would agree there is something about the prestige of having a Nikon camera...which comes to a funny story over xmas when I used the F90x with an ordinary flashgun for the usual shot of the family at the table..well checked the flash was working pointed the camera and said all put your smiles on at the count of three and nothing happened...and they all said "that's it no more photos" and I said "but this is a Nikon"...well silly me I forgot to switch the camera on :rolleyes: :banghead:
 
Suppose that's one thing about Christmas at an F&C house, you'll never miss a moment due to camera failure. "oh drat the camera has seized. Don't worry dear, I have others!"
 
steveo_mcg said:
Suppose that's one thing about Christmas at an F&C house, you'll never miss a moment due to camera failure. "oh drat the camera has seized. Don't worry dear, I have others!"
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:D
True..the other camera I had loaded with film was the OM2, but forgot what flashgun worked with it...I think it might have been Practica with the correct contacts layout.
 
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