Vintage film cameras

[yokohama]

The plan is to keep the macro lens for the moment and try it out...see how I feel about it. Once I've put light seals in the OM2, I'll shoot a film through it using the macro at different ranges.
If I decide to let it go, you can have first dibs, but unfortunately it's not a cheapo.

[Kenzie]

No worries. Been out shooting?

Sent from my Xperia T

[yokohama]

Unfortunately not, working. But I've got next week off so hope to get out with cameras and on the bike too.

[johnnyrod]

Ha, another Contina, though really it's a later version of the Ikonta 35, I have one on a shelf, looks nice but guess what, too sticky to use - add it to the list. They are very compact and I like the idea of a folding 35mm, even if it is zone focus. Good that it has a case, they're hard to find.

This may be of interest, I don't know much about it but it's free:
www.coursera.org/learn/photography
From what I can gather it's more about appreciation and composition than technique. Might give it a go.

Missed what would have been a really great picture yesterday. Just popped across the road to post a card, with my little daughter. She scampered off ahead and can just reach the slot of the postbox now. As she was getting closer to it, it struck me, but I didn't even have my phone in my pocket. Bright red postbox set in a stone wall, tarmac path, grass verge, bright blue envelope, light behind me, definitely not one for B&W. Oh well! She loves posting letters so it would have been good.

[yokohama]

That course looks interesting but are you sure it's free? There's mention of a fee.

Northallerton charity shops are a different league to those in Ipswich. I walked past one on the way home - they had a Spotmatic f in the window. Lots of goodies with it, extra 35mm lens, flash, case, eyepiece...... but they wanted £50 and both lenses had lots of mould on both the front and rear elements.

[Kenzie]

Good stuff doesn't come up that often at low prices. Normally they want too much for it and I pass. Most I'll pay is a tenner. Remind me what sort of camera your fried was after?
Johnny, all those cameras and you didn't have one on you???
Has your mystery camera arrived yet?
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[yokohama]

Damn! There's an xd7 amongst that lot.

I think my friend will be happy with some kind of rangefinder type thing. I sent her some pics and I think she'd prefer more of the Trip style than the old Zeiss machines.

[johnnyrod]

Yeah they're not glued to me. I'm not really a technophile but normally I'd have my phone on me for its camera, just bad luck. I don't mind watching life without trying to picture it, but I just saw it coming together and it would have been that good.

Spotty sounds good, depends a bit if the mould has eaten the coating or if there are any other problems. Sometimes things like that are a symptom of damp storage so the camera has rust etc. inside, though older lenses do grow fungus quite readily sometimes. I think the F was the first with open aperture metering? I'm not enough of a purist to live with stop-down.

Not delivered yet, soon I think. Also must get thumb out and try to reassemble the Vito - when do you need the cameras for, yoke?

[johnnyrod]

There seem to be grillions of Himatic 7s on ebay for buttons, the Rokkor lens is said to be good I believe

[Kenzie]

Originally Posted by yokohama

Damn! There's an xd7 amongst that lot.

Is that a good thing?

Yoko, be careful of rangefinders from the 1970s, they use a unavailable mercury battery. You can get replacements but have to drop the iso setting a notch to compensate.