Vintage film cameras

[Kenzie]

Thats not too bad then. Found any used camera shops? Been at the bike show at the NEC today. Seen some nice kit, tried on some new bikes.

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[johnnyrod]

no OM1 yet, might never arrive! Sounds like you're having fun Yoko!

[Kenzie]

Could imagine both standing there with the phones. But of confusion with Olympus. Some say it was going under, some saying it's fine. They had a but of internal confusion but ended up putting a statement out saying all is rosey.

[Kenzie]

Got my films back and I have issues with the FRii. Out of a roll of 24 I got like three. So I'm guessing that there is a shutter issue. I'm scanning at the moment so I will post up soon. Olympus OM40 worked well as did the ST605. I also sent off films from an Apollo 120, Bessa 6x9 and a Seagull. Needs is as good as always and the Seagull works well but the Apollo has a light leak, will know more once scanned.

[Kenzie]

The first three are expired shots from the OM40, and the boat is from.The Seagull. Seriously impressed with the sharpness of the lens.

[johnnyrod]

Nice, the Seagull is very good!

[Kenzie]

Pleasently suprised with the results. Will get more scanned, just the first one I did.

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[yokohama]

Yep. Definitely a nice lens on the Seagull. I like the Fujica 605 too; nice solid manual camera. Why does that cost peanuts compared to the K1000??

[yokohama]

Well, my my first experience of the PRC's film processing services is fairly positive. I handed the film in first thing this morning, an email with a link to the scans arrived at 3pm and I picked the negs up after work. All for the equivalent of £2.75. (scans are bmp, not jpeg but at a much higher resolution than my local shop)

I'm a little disappointed with some of the pics. Exposure looks fine but they lack sufficient saturation and contrast for me. I don't know whether that's the processing or the conditions in grey Chengdu. Last time I used the camera at home, all the images were pin sharp but it was bright summer and all the shots were at high shutter speeds and stopped down aperture. Here, I was mostly using 1/60 or 125 shutter speeds at f4 or below.
I'll post a handful up.

[yokohama]