Vintage film cameras

[Kenzie]

Got outbid. Did get a fully working Zorki 10 and case to replace my one with a dead meter.

[Kenzie]

Johnny, have you considered rolling your own film? You can pick up loaders pretty cheap. The film costs a bit but it pretty much drops a roll of B&W film to about £3 odd instead of like £6.99 for HP5+

[Kenzie]

Looks like my usual film supplier is changing hands so I need somewhere else to get my 120 film from. 620 isn't a problem as I respool 120 to 620 spools. Any ideas? Never used 7dayshop.

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[johnnyrod]

So far I've only used B&W in 120 so not really - or do you mean 120? I've used 7dayshop for colour film, usually a 5-pack is good value and strangely they often list two the same but one with postage and one without - I guess it depends how many things you're buying. Think Porta 400 was about a fiver a roll. B&W I last got from Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0000AE6AR
while I was buying Christmas presents anyway.

[Kenzie]

Not tried FP4. I usually buy Fomapan 100 for about £2.99 a roll. Boots sell 120 film but it isn't cheap.

[johnnyrod]

I've used it once in 120 and got 8x8" enlargements of a couple. The grain is very fine (I believe Fomapan is a bit grainy? Depends what you like) and the exposure latitude is wide - 2 stops under to 6 stops over - as the reciprocity failure is quite marked. I was very pleased with the results. Somewhere in this thread are a couple of scans of our house and a couple of ducks, these (of course) are from that film. The scans really don't do justice to the prints though. So I bought it again. You can get it in Jessops as well but it'll be around the £7 mark too.

[Kenzie]

Got an email back about the Zeiss. The meter hasn't been checked.

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[johnnyrod]

Shocker. I usually find if they haven't checked it they don't know how. There is a needle in a small window on the top cover, when the exposure is right (shutter and aperture), the needle is centred. I usually include brief instructions i.e. shine a light on it then cover it up, needle should move back and forth. Might need to tell them to set it to say 1/30 and f2.8 so they see it over- and under-expose - for uncoupled ones it's a bit simpler. With these selenium meters as you probably know, the work or not, not much middle ground, but ones in cases tend to be fine.

[Kenzie]

I can just see their faces glazing over as I ask them to wave a torch over it to see if the needle moves!

[johnnyrod]

I've always had a sensible answer when I've asked it of people. I'd take a punt on it being cased as probably working. They're worth about £20-30 if fully operational but the case on its own is a tenner.