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  1. unfortunately no big stores near me, so I was looking on Amazon instead... I'll have to look into those that you mentioned, thanks! Thank you! That's an interesting way of putting it into perspective :)
  2. With regards to the Wein cell Stuart, I've scoped it out and whilst I am a little bit concerned about potential leaking, it's a camera that I'd like to push myself to be using every day so the short life didn't appeal to me too much, I've also done some looking into similar zinc hearing aid batteries (675ZA?) but they didn't really appeal to my liking either. In terms of film, I would really love to be able to expand and be able to have a lot of options on whatever given day but I think given my limited experience with film to begin with at the moment I'd just like to try to start my learning journey with less variables to worry about if I pop in a 200ISO film and that way I can also test out all the exposure limits! At the moment I'm doing some experiments with the Praktica to see what kinds of exposure I get without using batteries. I have had some people say they have a bridge circuit John but not every place that I read mentioned that so I wasn't sure if it was limited to some models or what not. Thank you for the luck though :) maybe I will have to do a comparison by taking an image of something and then coming back to it in a few weeks when I've got a better feel of how each of the cameras work... And thank you Rick for the link to the manual. I will definitely have a run through that and see if there's anything I'm not familiar with. In terms of subjects I think it'll be interesting shooting with the film cameras and comparing them to what they look like through the lens of my usual camera, which is a Fuji HS20EXR
  3. Hey everyone, So one of my grandfathers passed away earlier on this year. He was super interested in astronomy to the point of building his own observatory from scratch - including telescope - and due to myself investing a lot of time into photography as firstly a hobby before spending some time in a more intense environment as a studio photographer I was given two of his cameras that he kept, both in pretty good condition. One is a Praktica Super TL with the original leather casing - it has a Meyer-Optik Görlitz Oreston 50mm f/1.8 lens on it and in a separate bag, a Dimension brand 223mm f=2.8 lens. The other is Minolta X-370 with a gorgeous Tamron 28-200mm f/3.8-5.6 lens popped on and a Vivitar Auto Thyristor 550FD flash tucked in the corner of the camera bag. There was also a couple rolls of 400 35mm film of which I'm not too sure how old (or new, haha) they all are and neither of them have batteries. The problem is... whilst I am familiar with basic stuff like "the exposure triangle" and I've handled modern SLR's on a few occasions before, I am a little bit out of the water when it comes to film cameras! I've done a ton of research on batteries and because the Praktica magnesium battery isn't the best to find, I'm debating in between 625A and 357 to tide me over before I drop a chunk of money on the CRIS MR9 adaptor. I live in relatively small town so even if I was to want it re-calibrated for a 1.5 or 1.55v I don't think there's anyone who would be able to do it nearby and I don't know if I feel comfortable doing it myself. The Minolta was pretty straight forward... everyone who I've read seems to have good experience using the SR44 batteries so that seems to be the way to go. In terms of film, everyone seems to have their own favourites but with the places I shoot in and the subjects I like, I was thinking about buying a couple of rolls of 200 35mm from Amazon or something but I would love to hear people's opinions about what kinds of film they like, the whole battery situation, or what some favourite subjects to capture with these two are. :) Thanks in advance, and sorry for the lengthy post :D
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