Vintage film cameras

[johnnyrod]

Think I'll leave the Box Tengor. One good photo on a forum thread set me on the path of thinking about boxes, but I suspect it'd be a lesson in unfulfilled anticipation. Speaking of which, I picked up this 222830143224 for a tenner - made an offer so that includes postage. Curious one, it was sold (with a case, which has now gone) by someone in South Shields for £40 recently, and now is in Blackburn for a tenner. The seller says it all seems to work, the RF is loose, he opened the top cover and "tightened the screws" which seemed to work for a few days but then it went back to the problem of the focus ring moving all the way but part way through its travel the RF patch stops moving. I'm hoping it's an easy fix of course! He said he didn't know much about repairs.

[Kenzie]

Yoko: http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography...reenchange.htm

[yokohama]

Looks good. Have you tried it out?
I had a look at the MIR site but my FM doesn't have the tab. I've done a bit of searching and it looks like the screens aren't intended to be changeable but it is possible - but only by removing top cover and prism, which seems a bit of a PITA

[Kenzie]

Only pointed it at a couple of things. Had to tweak a few settings such as shooting w/o lens. I like the way single/burst/bracket and self timer are arranged around mode dial. It also has a film mode (need to read up on that) plus its tiny! Much smaller and lighter than I was expecting.

[yokohama]

Accessible shooting modes is good. On the OMD, I have to go into the menu and set them. Easy enough when you know where to go but it takes time.
I think with film mode, it's possible to play around with and set contrast, ISO etc; on the OMD in monochrome it's possible to add filters and choose your film type too. (I set it to tri x with a red filter and plus 1 or 2 contrast - can't remember exactly.)

[Kenzie]

There is some slop in the adapter, I can see and feel it moving a little. It was only a cheapy so maybe I will invest a bit more in the OM and Minolta adapters. The camera and battery weighs 430g and the lens and adapter weigh 359g! So quite a lump there.The evf has an auto sensor so it flicks between the screen and evf just by moving it to my eye, my HS10 has the same feature. I'm also glad of the rotating screen, keeps it protected when not in use. Just a shame it would cost well over £100 for an original lens for it. I did spot a G1 on Gumtree or Facebook with a lens for £45 but I had already ordered this one.

[johnnyrod]

Looks good!

[yokohama]

Sounds good. Keep an eye on Gumtree. Lenses come up from time to time and the Olympus micro 4/3 glass will fit it as well.
basic kit lens for example. I use this a lot. Not great for low light but does the job outside. https://www.gumtree.com/p/digital-ca...3.5/1286983308

[admin]

The Canonet turned up today. Very clean condition. Initially i thought the shutter was locked but it was just a lack of understanding by me. Three only thing i could see wrong was that the image superimposed by the rangefinder was misaligned, the ghost image was slightly above the vf image. I took the top off to see if it was easy to adjust, it was. A small grub screw let's you adjust the vertical image. It's a big camera too, heavy.

[yokohama]

Looks very nice that. Solid and heavy is good.