rick_drawbridge Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Time to exercise one of the bigger guns; this Mamiya 645 1000S kit is about as heavy as I can manage hand-held, but the superb quality the camera is capable of producing makes the pain worthwhile. Mamiya 645 1000S 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Bryant Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 There's an "almost" hurricane sitting off the Louisiana coast right now, so I won't be leaving the house this weekend. I hope you make it without damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gammill Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 Stay safe, Vincent. I've been watching the Weather Channel this morning. I have a sister in Longbeach, MS and a cousin in New Orleans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Peri Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Re hurricane: Thanks everyone. It looks like the storm is moving off toward the west, so all we should get is sporadic heavy rain and strong gusts of wind. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gammill Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 This weekend I've been giving this camera some exercise. Spotmatic F with 50mm r 1.4 SMC Takumar, loaded with Plus-X Meter is dining contentedly on an alkaline PX625. Pentax, I think, uses a bridge circuit to keep battery voltage at the correct level. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_morris3 Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Tested with B/W. Velvia 50 or Ektar 100 next? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_shumpert2 Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 I will be using my newest Nikon, an F2. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiddlefye Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 I will be using my newest Nikon, an F2. Hard to go wrong with a F2! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiddlefye Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Tested with B/W. Velvia 50 or Ektar 100 next? [ATTACH=full]1303465[/ATTACH] If it were me it would be Velvia 50, my favourite colour film of all time.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gammill Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 After a few Pentax weekends, I'm going for a mix of classic and modern from Olympus. Plus-X in the Olympus 35 RC Olympus OM77 AF (will have the AF 35-70 rather than manual focus 50) BTW, do you know what happens when you mount a non AF Olympus lens on an OM77 AF? Besides the obvious lack of autofocus the camera utilizes aperture priority automation, but there is no display in the finder to indicate the shutter speed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick_drawbridge Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 An old favourite with a lens I use regularly, today. If the rain ceases I'll take this Canon out for a walk this weekend. Canon FTb QL 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiddlefye Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 we have the Art Walk going on this weekend so I think I'll grab a combination of my digital (Nikon D750), the "baby" Speed Graphic and a few rolls of HP5. Something about the Graphic makes people want to get their picture taken... DSC_1079 by fiddlefye, on Flickr 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_ Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 rolled a couple of 120 film onto 620 spools last night and the weather a little bit cooler this week so good time to get out... (Kodak Tourist ll 6x9 folder 105/4.5). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen_h Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Why do we only use cameras on the weekend? Can we have a "What cameras are you using this week" forum? Anyway, over the last few days, I used a Brownie 2 model F, which is actually brown, with a roll of TMax 400, and a roll of TMax 100, both expired in 1992. The Brownie has three aperture settings, which some say agree with f/16, f/22, and f/32. Without measuring them, I think that is about right. There are also two shutter speed, I and T. I is about 1/50s, and T holds the shutter open until you move the knob back again. This one is interesting, in that for I, the shutter opens for either movement of the shutter knob. (Down or up, for vertical, left or right for horizontal.) The instructions specifically warn not to use the smallest aperture with the I shutter speed, but I don't think they knew about TMax 400 then. (Tri-X would have been closer, but still years away.) So, I specifically found a nice sunny day, and took some with the smallest aperture. 1 -- glen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m42dave Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 No weekend photo plans (it's been very hot, and now thunderstorms) so I've been restoring a Miranda Automex II. It's really in quite nice condition but the meter is weak, so I'm replacing the selenium cell with one from a Praktica LB. Once the door seals are replaced I'll take it out for a test. Miranda Automex II 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gammill Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 Glen H said Why do we only use cameras on the weekend? Can we have a "What cameras are you using this week" forum? Most of us just use 'em all week anyway. But calling it "what cameras are you using this week" would be more descriptive. If the moderator wants to change the title accordingly, it's all right with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjallen Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 It's neither classic nor manual, but I used a Nikon N90s yesterday, and I even let my two young kids have a turn at using it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiddlefye Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 We're going out of town for the next week and I'll be taking my Rolleiflex 3.5 Xenotar and a digital kit with Nikon D750 and a few lenses. Should do the job without carrying too much. One of the many things I have always loved about the Rolleiflex is how compact and light it is to lug relative to the image quality. I might see if I have room to slip in the Retina IIa for a little 35mm as well. We'll just see how the bag packs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cary_chin1 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 I will be using a Minolta SR-1s this weekend. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Bowes Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Just the Fed-3 & Jupiter-8. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gammill Posted August 2, 2019 Author Share Posted August 2, 2019 Up next, with some Plus-X. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen_h Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 (snip) The Brownie has three aperture settings, which some say agree with f/16, f/22, and f/32. Without measuring them, I think that is about right. There are also two shutter speed, I and T. I is about 1/50s, and T holds the shutter open until you move the knob back again. This one is interesting, in that for I, the shutter opens for either movement of the shutter knob. (Down or up, for vertical, left or right for horizontal.) The instructions specifically warn not to use the smallest aperture with the I shutter speed, but I don't think they knew about TMax 400 then. (Tri-X would have been closer, but still years away.) So, I specifically found a nice sunny day, and took some with the smallest aperture. This one is taken on a Brownie 2F with shutter speed I (about 1/50s) and smallest aperture (about f/32) on TMY from 1992. 2 -- glen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick_van_Nooij Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 I'll definitely will be using this stuff over the weekend, also need to finish that roll in my Certo Super-Dollina. And I'll probably bring a Leica. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiddlefye Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 I took three film cameras away on holiday - Rolleiflex 3.5 Xenotar, Retina IIc and Voightlander Vito III. I never had a chance to use the Rollei and the Retina jammed up a few frames in so that roll got moved over to the Voightlander most of the film shooting was with it. No harm done. It really is a wonderful folder, quirky but with great feel and the Ultron is the bee's knees. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gammill Posted August 8, 2019 Author Share Posted August 8, 2019 Probably loaded with Plus-X 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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