Vintage film cameras

[Kenzie]

How are you getting on with the Olympus S by the way Johnny?

[johnnyrod]

Not touched it. It works fine, just the meter is playing up. I'm wondering if it's not so much the bits in the lens barrel as under the top cover, as it's getting better. One of the first things I did was take the top cover off to clean the RF and VF, but I seem to remember checking the meter before and it was fine, so maybe I did it. The pictures from it looked great and it feels nice to use.

[Kenzie]

Vandalised another camera eh? I have so many I have yet to shoot with still.
191936670807 these don't come up very often.

[johnnyrod]

You know me. I'll figure it out, I also now have a spare meter I reckon would go in it if I needed. The picture of the Certo on a wall was taken with the Olympus.

Got a bid on the Minimatic so it'll be sold by tomorrow night. Am also listing about 20 pairs of my daughter's shoes on ebay! So should have done them bit by bit as she outgrew them.

[Kenzie]

The bundle with the Canonet has been reduced to £8.99 plus postage. Unexpected repair on my Cosmic Symbol. Lens barrel wasn't sitting straight so I took it off and found the plastic surround of the lens is cracked. Gluing it now and will need to collimate.

Sent from my Xperia T

[yokohama]

Pentax P30 arrived today. It looks to be in OK condition but needs a bit of a clean up though I haven't had chance to give it a proper look.
It came with a couple of interesting teleconverters which screw into the end of the lens. One is a standard 1.5; the other a -0.75 (?) which turns a 50mm into a wide-angle. not seen one of those before.

There's a Cokin attachment and a couple of filters. Anyone creative enough to use them?

[Kenzie]

No, I have some Cokins already but have never used them. Make sure you get a healthy battery in the P30 or it might not fire properly. I got a film leader retrieval tool as some film I unloaded from car boot cameras I would like to shoot with. Had tried the method of feeding another film in but it was unreliable.

[yokohama]

Those retrieval tools are very neat little gadgets.

[johnnyrod]

What filters are there, Yokes?

[Kenzie]

Originally Posted by yokohama

Those retrieval tools are very neat little gadgets.

Really handy, if you accidentally rewind the film too much you can get it back. Mine is plastic, there are metal ones but they can scratch the film. Are those photos of the Minimatic on Flickr?