charles_stobbs2

February 18, 2004

Is the Canon SD10 the digital equivalent of what you want?

February 18, 2004

Retina IIa, Olympus Pen D, Olympus 35 ED, Canon A35F

February 17, 2004

The Kodak Bullet was also a low price threaded tube camera of the 1930's. It used 127 film.

February 17, 2004

I have a Canon 2400U flatbed scanner with the 35mm,slide, and 2 1/4 attachments and it does a pretty good job except for what I think is called dynamic range. You might compare the specs on this factor before making up your mind.

February 17, 2004

I think most of the rangefinders were after market add-ons, the name Kalart comes to mind. So if you find a good 4X5 without a rangefinder they might be available elsewhere as a separate item.

February 16, 2004

For a battery conversion with the same voltage look at 675 zinc/air hearing aid batteries. They are small and require o rings, foil shims or whatever to adapt to various size mercury requirements. They don't last as long as the mercuries but at about $1 each it is cheap enough to replace one every 2 or 3 rolls of film.

February 15, 2004

I was never there at sunrise/sunset but watching the mules plunge over the rim with their chauffers having second thoughts should make interesting photos. I decided to hike and left early to avoid the stampede. Lots of great photo ops later in the day.

February 15, 2004

If you don't require manual controls other than focus the Olympus 35ED is a small, medium weight camera with a f2.8 38 mm lens that produces good pictures and offers some exposure control via the manual iso film speed settings. Most of the metered cameras of that era required a mercury battery which can be replaced with a zinc/air hearing aid battery and various spacers. The Olympus Trip 35 uses no batteries but has no rangefinder, however you can view the focussing icons from the viewfinder as you adjust the focus.

February 14, 2004

We rented a car in England for two weeks. It was convenient but somewhat stressful (driving on the left). The autoroutes were OK but narrow country roads in the Cotswalds, East Anglia, etc and small towns with roundabouts (CCW) in a steady rain were not enjoyable. Besides aren't cars banned in central London now unless you buy an exorbitant permit?

February 14, 2004

No glass is perfect, so unless you are trying to achieve some special purpose, the less glass the better. I think this applies to lenses also.

February 13, 2004

Thanks for the info. A great site.

February 12, 2004

Are'nt Trabants DKW's(Audi's) licensed to be made in the East Zone?

February 12, 2004

I assume over 20 days you may have to take your gloves off to perform some bodily functions unless you are wearing a kilt. Couldn't you insert a fresh battery (in the camera) at that time instead of waiting for it to go completely dead?

February 12, 2004

I think a blower brush, properly used should always be the first step in lens cleaning. All lens cleaning should be done with the lens pointing down so that gravity will carry all loose particles away from the camera/lens.

February 7, 2004

...you'd better not go in the woods today.....

February 7, 2004

An Olympus 35ED, a Canonet QL17GIII, and a Retina S1. But nothing since Chinese New Year.

February 6, 2004

There is an exploded view of this camera at:

www.olympus.dementia.org/Hardware/PDFs?35EC-2.pdf

February 6, 2004

I recently purchased one of these on E-Bay after lusting for one since the early 1940's. There was also an f5.6 model and the later clunky rangefinder version. There is a description of one at:

www.tcp-ip.or.jp/~peachan/camera/kodak35/index-e.html

Also a google search for Kodak 35 camera will turn up other pages. I have not had time yet to put film through my camera but it seems solidly built and the shutter speeds and diaphragm and lens seem OK.

Lastly, if you decide to buy it, ther is a manual available for downloading for the similar rangefinder version at http://mikec62.tripod

.com/manuals.html

February 5, 2004

Also not much help other than seconding the opinion of matching your film to the stuck setting. I had two of these cameras and they took great pictures. I was put off a little by the long shutter release stroke (cock and release in one stroke). I later started using a 35ED and found it much more comfortable in my hands and a joy to use.

February 4, 2004

Also the term is loosly and inaccurately used to describe cameras that have no rangefinder but only a viewfinder

February 3, 2004

The crafts section of Walmart sells a product called Foamies which are sheets of adhesive backed foam. After cleaning out the old seals with a toothpick or whatever cut new seals to fit out of the Foamies. Very easy.

February 2, 2004

Years ago we stayed at a B&B called the Canal House, fairly close to the center and the Anne Frank house. It was reasonable then.

January 31, 2004

As a Kodachrome photographer of many years I expect to take pictures, drop the film in a mail box, have them processed by machine unseen by human eyes and get back hopefully a few good ones uninfluenced by any skills except mine when I took them. I also use a digital camera sometimes and would be very upset if I thought I could not get what I expected without resorting to manipulation.

January 31, 2004

I was about to say photography had gone down hill but then remembered all the great photo coverage of the Iraq war in the New York Times in the last few months. The photographers may never have the fame of some of the Life or FSA photographers but they are very good. Some of the TV news coverage is also good but the credits zip by so fast we will never know their names.

January 30, 2004

Not to mention saving a lot of 0's & 1's.

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