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    Update - Dec. 2018. my domain names are paid up to 2020, and my hosting too. I went to a new hosting company Host Gator. I have the "gator" icon, I'll find a way to get rid of that. I am now a HTPPS secure site and the site is checked for malware daily. No thanks to GoDaddy. Left them as they kept removing abilities and wanted to charge for everything extra, and a lot of money too. Still buying and posting manuals. Just posted a bunch last week, purchased a bunch from the UK. Need a Exakta 6X6 vertical manual... yea, finally found one. No one else has one posted. I bought the $40 version ( a bit worn), I skipped the $75 one that was in very good condition. I'm fixing things on the site, upgraded certain manuals. For about 8 months now I changed the way I posted manuals, I keep the manual cover as the first page, my "look who did this" as the second. So if you have them on your screen you can now see the cover of the manual. I also put them in Adobe 8 format, MAC users had problem opening them in Adobe 10. MAC users hate Adobe. Any domain names I own just go to my original site, now https.
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    The many Ricoh 500 models. Ricoh Camera instruction manuals
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    Try the manual ? Pentax 645 instruction manual, user manual, free PFD camera manuals
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    My full frame K-1 now lets me get my full 28mm width with my zoom, my 85mm with my f/1.8. It's big, heavy (with added battery grip) and massive 25 MP files. I have 5 MP photos from 2006 with a Sigma lens that I can print 13X19 and they look amazing... Even impressing my son and his wife with their very expensive Canon bodies and lenses. Depend if you want to show your friend your new stereo that only has .03 harmonic distortion at half volume against your old stereo that had .09 distortion. If you post them on-line.. . who will know ? Mirrors and smoke, APC - ACR - PVC, if you want to spend money and show how big your files are...
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    Very good ! Plain and it will work.
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    Here here... well said. There are thieves in photography, and with the new Google abilities, they are being pointed out and shamed. One guy stealing other photos from on-line, making a small change to it and selling it for $100K in his studio. Most people don't have $5K to get a lawyer and sue him. So he continues. If you were from out of the US, double that bill to sue in the US. It's marketing, know how, social networking. If you could see the U.S. daytime TV show people, they don't have any special talent. Somehow they just got popular and got their own TV show for millions a year. Friends using your talents for nothing.. when did that ever stop ? But I hate to say it... back in the day nobody could play like Jimi Hendrix, not even close. Now you can see 10 year old shred a guitar and stretch their fingers to do his strange finger chords. Good singers are a dime a dozen, in any good bar band. Want to have a terrible concert life, most don't, so their incredible voices are only hears locally . Be able to handle a guitar like Eddie Van Hallen, there are 15 year old children that can now out-do him. Meaning: your stuff is nice, but I can fine 1000 other people that can match or do better. And each will say they will do it cheaper !
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    Have you seen Fashion Photography in the past 15 years. It has nothing to do with quality... actually I don't know what some of them have to do with anything. You can make money... or you can be a winner in some photo contest here or there. Some of the crappiest "photos" are sold for $100K.
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    Making money in photography and becoming a millionaire in sports... about the same odds. My son tried the same thing in 2004 and he graduated an Optical Engineer when he saw his prospects disappear in 2002 . He does photography (amazing stuff as well as his wife's stuff) as a side hobby. Every "craft" show I see photographers selling their photos, and very few buyers then 10 years ago. It's like cut glass, we had a famous cut glass company a few towns away from me. They were there some 100 years but in 2006 they closed their doors. No one buys cut glass as gifts anymore, no sales, no business. Thing change, digital changed everything. Sort of like the automobile, horses disappeared and their related jobs. Restaurants, hotels and gift shops opened. There are a lot of free on-line photo course ! !
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    How good is your lens, any fog ? That is one very old camera. You could have a coating inside the back that just needs cleaning. As someone said one of the photos is slow shutter speed, the other two seem to be focus. But unless you were shooting wide open, most other apertures should cover small focusing problems with depth of field.
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    Most newbie don't know how to load a camera, non the less take apart a 35mm electronic camera. Many used film cameras are $40 - $60 at best. Just getting a "repair manual" shipped to you will cost your some $25. Very few have the specialized tools and instructions just to get off the top. I do brakes on my cars since the 70's, clutches and all kinds of stuff. Would never tell a newbie to do a brake job or even change spark plugs. Now with Google and YouTube around, lots to be found and glad you got that camera working. If you have any information on that repair I could post on my website, I would be glad to include it for that model. Lots of computer monitors and computers have "bad caps". Dell computers went through a class action lawsuit years ago due to that problem. The knew the problem, just told customers it was their electrical outlets or bad software until it got out of warranty. They they wanted a lot of money to replace the capacitors they knew were bad. Any old electronics can go bad by just one part, you found the problem and were able to fix it. That is very unusual, congrats.
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    If those lines on your photos are on every photo, you have something on your sensor. You have to be careful with digital camera. Dirty sensors were a big problem until they came with covers when the lens was removed. If you are using a Vivitar 283 flash, depending on the age (they were made for many years) the flash voltage could fry the flash electronics. The voltage of the flash from positive (center contact) to negative (side contact) was sometimes 300V. Those flashes were made for some 20+ years. Nikon says the contacts are good for 250v. There is a device that fits between the flash and camera that drops the contact voltage to some tiny voltage. But that makes the distance from the top of the flash to the adapter longer. That could make any strain at the attachment points very high and break something if you hit the flash sideways.
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    You have the "80's version of "Cokin filters - I own multiple lenses, but don't want to buy an expensive polarize / filter for each lens. For goodness sakes, they still make them and other companies have their variations ! So this big company came out with filter adapters. A big square filter and threaded lens adapters that fit on the big square holder. You can still find them on E-bay or Amazon. So there are adapters for each lens thread size that fits on the one square filter holder. I will assume there is a polarizer model that will rotate. Now some bad news. The old polarisers work on film. Newer digital camera need circular polarisers in order for the AF to function right. There are thousands of used glass models available. Back in the day, there were few zoom lenses. So your 5 lenses all had different diameters, this system was perfect. With modern zoom lenses you now only have 1 or 2 lenses. Even two new polarisers would only cost some $20 each size....unless you are talking about B&W makes. And the Cokin were plastic, don't shoot through plastic. On the other hand, don't buy a $9 China filter.
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    Thanks for the reference to my website. On your lens, there is a bar that stick out. The distance of that bar (left or right) moves as you change the aperture and tells the camera what F-stop that lens is set at by an arm inside the camera measuring where that arm is located. So you don't have to "stop down" to measure the lighting. Then using the camera's light meter and basic computer, figures out a shutter speed. Many other Pentax camera have auto and manual abilities, yours does not. So you can only pick the aperture (but it reflects the shutter speed). You need a faster shutter speed, open the aperture (but loose depth of field). You do have an OVER (bright sunlight with most films) and trying to shoot at F2 will most likely set off the OVER warning. Just stop the lens down a bit. You should not try to shoot hand held under 1/60 sec. If you have a 135mm or longer lens then no slower then 1/125th.
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    That looks like a pinhole. More light at the center of the leak, less at the edge. Nikon F3 (according to the manual) has a mirror lock up. Lock mirror up, remove lens, darken room, nice LED light in front, check that shutter curtain in back. Repairs, if that is the problem, Google it. There are a number of suggestions.
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