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<p>I had an issue with sticky rubber on a Minolta Dynax 7 (Maxxum 7).<br />I cured it with toilet milk for babies.</p>

I shot this one with a Minolta X-500. There was a guy with a digital Nikon that asked why I had that obsolete camera.He didn't even notice that there was a very rare Rokkor 17mm on the camera. I had all that stuff for less than 300 Euros.

 

I am very happy with this photo. Some people love it. Other don't even consider this one as interesting.

 

A lot of people told me things like :

- there is grain,

- it's blurred,

- it would have been better in colour,

- it would have been better with a digital,

- it would have been better a Cakon or a Ninon,

- it would have been better with a Leica (Thank you very much. I have two Leicas but I did not use them this evening however I you like my work I accept a 15mm Hologon in Leica mount as a present.)

- it's Tri-X I have better result with T-max.

 

And so on... Most of the time I don't see any photo from these guys. Sometime they do something very different. Sometime they have better photos than mine and I take their advice in account.

 

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Don't crop. It is not perfect when cropped.Keep the "snapshot spirit".

"Si vos photos ne sont pas assez bonnes, c'est que vous n'êtes pas assez près."

Be careful with Zorki 4... There's good and bad Zorki 4 the early ones with strap lugs are much better than the latest. On the latest shutter speed are painted instead of engraved that means thats in many case you'll end with no speeds on the shutter dial...

 

IMO a 3C from the 50s is a bargain. Basically its a Zorki 4 without self timer I have 1955 that is really well built, it even compare to some screw mount Leica. Another advantage is that the Jupiter-8 from the fifties are better than those of the sixties.

 

One thing to notice about the Zorkis 3C/4& 4K is the 1:1 finder. You may like it or even love it. It allows to shoot both eyes open. It may also dislike Its not that easy to see the frame if you wear glasses.

Thanks. It seems i not the only one to have silly ideas.

Hmmm... There is a lot of developers you can reuse. Proof than they are exhausted. I know there is a reaction inside or at the surface of the emulsion that exhaust developer that's why agitation is required...

I know about two bath developer I routinely use Diafine.

 

My question is mostly pure curiosity... I imagine that starting in D-76 and finishing in Rodinal can give something between Rodinal and and D-76 but maybe I'm to naive about chemistry.

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Aside of mixing developers. Has anyone tried to use 2 developers successively For instance starting in D-76 and

finishing in Rodinal ?

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Tom,

 

It may be inferior to your Nikkor...

...but as long as you have faith.

As long as it works... Shoot with your Leica... The more ugly, the more pleasure ;-)

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As an amateur photographer...If I had half of the training of a F1 driver I think I could get two speeds slower...I've been to 0,7s with digital camera and stabilizer... How slow with stabilizer a monopod ?... By the way I'm slow and lazy according to many people... That helps ;-)

 

On the other the camera is important, I have blurred shot at 1/30s with a 29mm on a Praktica....

 

My advice is : Buy a monopod the cost is marginal compared to the camera...

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