gary_brook1

I stopped doing wedding/portraits a while ago, but before I did I found that I used the AF-S 70-200/2.8 VRII the most, usually around 135mm on a DX body when outside. It was great, always. Inside with less space or light I used the AF DC 105/2 on an FX.

I have ridden motorcycles most of my life so I recently visited the titled exhibition 'The Motorcycle: Design, Art, Desire’ at the QAGOMA in Brisbane, Queensland. If you have seen the preceding one at the Guggenheim N.Y. in 1998, which I couldn't, you would be grateful for the experience of Co-curators Falco and Guilfoyle in presenting this in Australia. I was interested in all of it, but I have specifically followed the design, construction and develop of the John Britten V1000 racing motorcycle from New Zealand since the 1980s until now, and wanted to photograph it better, despite the unfortunate lighting in the exhibition and preventing the use of camera flash. Such as what it is. Nikon D3s with Nikkor PC-Micro 85mm f2.8, 1/80 @ f4.8 (I think) sitting on the floor. This is just a resized .jpg but I do have a NEF copy, and I've just got my Capture One Pro 6 application running again. We'll see.

My wife took this image in the South Coast in New South Wales, Australia last September. The whales were about 10m away from the tourist boat, no doubt curious about the tourists. The staff had said that there were a handful of whales in the bay for most days in the season when the wales were resting, feeding and then moving on, but sometimes none. On this day, around midday there were at least 50+ individuals, which was unusual, and while we have lived nearby in Canberra for more than 40 years we haven't been on a whale boat before. Just lucky. Fuji X-E1 with a standard 18-55 zoom, and the blue colour of the water on that day actually was like that.

I've owned my EF for a long time, but I can't remember where I bought it, obviously used but very clean. It is a split screen and new switch, serial number 386354 with Q1137 so November 1976.

Hi Adrian, I just had my early Focomat IIC lenses cla'd by a Leica technician in Melbourne. Good work and a decent price. If you want the details let me know and I'll send you the details. He was booked out for 4-6 weeks so I had to wait before I sent the lenses in. Secondly, your cam follower. I have 2 IICs (1 active and a second as a spare chassis without lenses or the bowen cable) and both have the followers, so I can measure and compare them and give you the dimensions. I have accurate tools as I build engines and stuff, another hobby. More than 20 years ago I had 3 V35 enlargers (long story, but I still have one) in my garage and one of them had lost the cam follower, like yours. I measured one and took it to a Model Engineers (trains, clocks etc) fabricator. He said he's always making bronze bushes all the time so no problems, and the pictures in your thread looks like a sintered bronze follower. He explained, they have to be machined oversize and then reduce them via (acid, I think?) etching to the smaller finished size - as the machining firstly smears the bronze and prevent them sucking the oil into the bush, which wears out very quickly. It was a love job, really, as you couldn't pay the commercial rate as it needed care and time, so I waited. Find the right person where you are who would be interested and would do a good job. I was lucky and grateful. I still know some of these retired guys, like me. Pardon the long story.

Can I suggest that you check the mirror to see if it has slipped down in the mirror box. I had an RX that did that and the difference was noticeable within the eye finder, as well the slip ruined the film as it had hung down to block the light from the lens.

I have a NIB +3 Dioptric Adjustment Lens R, if that would be useful to you. Shipping shouldn't be expensive via Australia Post, if you're patient. If you need one right now then .... Shipping will be at cost only. If your sight couldn't adjust from +3 to +2, I have have friends who made new diopters with their optometrist' lab locally, and yours may could. The mount is still usable if you knock out the +3, carefully, as replacement round eyepieces seem to be often lost. Let me know.

Hi M, I've sent you jpegs of both sides of the Instruction sheet. I think the resolution should be enough to print them out at 10" x 15" @ 300ppi. Regards, Gary.

Hello M., I was missing you later message so pardon me. I’ll copy the owner manual and send it to you. Can you please send me a PM or give me an address to send it to you. Regards, Gary.

I bought my first camera in 1986, a used Canon A1, before I moved up to my T90 around 1989. In the mid 1990s I didn't know that the Vertical Shutter Release even existed in Australia - until I found one that was for sale for nearly $150! I passed on that price and later sold my T90s when I moved in to EOS 5, 3 and then digital. But about 2009 I did buy a well looked after T90 body and started to find for some of the accessories, including a modestly priced VSR from Italy. I've installed it permanently but you need to keep attention as it can un-thread itself and disappear. I also found that installing the VSR is quite easy to cross thread it, which would ruin your day. All I need now is a Data Memory Back 90. Regards all.

FD200mm F4 Macro on Nikon D3s, F5.6 @ around 1/800 sec, I think - at Floriade at Canberra, September 2019.

I just noticed that there are 3 or 4 different FD55mm f1.2 AL lenses for sale on E*** (through Australia) at the moment. I wrote the serial numbers of 3 of them and forgot the 4th one, if anyone is interested. One seems a very earlier one. No, I can't and won't, at @ $6,000 USD with shipping plus GST. Interesting though.

if you're still trying to find information about the Quint, I have a near mint box, flash, case and manual. Let me know what you need in the way of information. I can upload a .jpg of the manual here, which seems easier than a scan. My flash seems to have been used once as there are 4 unused bulbs and one missing in the holder. Luckier, there was no battery in the body and no marking or corrosion.

I did check the serial # on my clear-type lens and it were correct. Perhaps the clear glass 55/1.2 SSC Aspherical lenses were given a new serial # to differ the older ones, who knows. I checked on Ebay recently and found their were about 10 for sale which varied from #19242 (blue AL) through #76663 (warm) to #136258 (clear).

Bear with me as I have found my disk, but my Nero Express 6 won't save an .iso file, only their own .nri format, which I have generated. Also, I couldn't save either files up to here. I can save the .nri file to an email and send it to you, if you can give me an address. If you have a free copy of Nero Express/Essentials. you could burn a disk from the .nri file. Let me know.