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Old 15-05-16, 09:01 PM   #757
johnnyrod
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Default Re: Vintage film cameras

You can make up the URL yourself

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231935779825

Good package for the price! Hopefully your other one will come off too; I doubt £18 would be turned down.

Blimey you know about all this than me then, I just read a lot. Turntable, yes... Linn Basik.

Am working my way surprisingly quickly through the first film in the Olympus S I got a few weeks ago. The busted meter is annoying though it is actually helping me guess exposures. I'll fix it when the film is out. I do like it, and it has the quietest shutter ever. After cutting my teeth on SLRs with a noise like a library stamp, any leaf shutter sounds almost like an anticlimax, especially on a folding MF camera. This is so quiet you almost think it's jammed itself open.

I missed out on the deal for four cameras including a Lynx, it was pulled three days before the ebay auction was due to end. RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRse.

http://photo.net/classic-cameras-forum/006a2u
Info on the Symbolica, metering is a sort of programme exposure, starts from slow shutter and wide open aperture, moving both towards less light until you reach maximum shutter speed and smallest aperture. Bit odd when you're used to choosing it all yourself but most cameras that offer fully auto exposure do this sort of thing. Having the needle visible in the viewfinder is, I find, really helpful in speeding up taking pictures, which suits my style of grabbing scenes. If you enjoy using it then I'd recommend trying a Contessa, or if you want shutter-priority auto exposure then a Contessamat, though they are not easy to find. I might have a Contessa for sale soon, but that's not meant to be a sales pitch!

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