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<p>What kind of issues do you see at such close range?</p>

Is there an FX3 Bolshoi? That's like car names getting re-used by other manufacturers. I'm thinking Fiesta, Pacer, GT, etc.

<p>Excellent photos...nice camera, too!</p>

And it's Progenetor<div></div>

The Camera<div></div>

My Yashica FX-3 Super 2000

Good Morning Cheyenne Mountain...<div></div>

They Told Me I'd End Up in a Padded Cell...<div></div>

A Draining Experience...<div></div>

Up Against the Wall,,,<div></div>

Good Morning, Colorado Springs!<div></div>

Then Yashica FX-3 SUper 2000 must be even better! (And it is...sort of.) Since I recently succumed to the "film bug" I was hankering to use my Yashica FX-3. But it developed a shutter issue. I found the repair manual and it mentioned the exact problem and the three probable causes and remedies. Each involved disassembling the top plate, removing the shutter box and disassembling the shutter / advance mechanism. Or for $45 dollars I could order one from Adorama. While described as an "FX-3" It was actually the "FX-3 Super 2000" with a faster shutter (1/2000 vs 1/1000...good), a raised hand grip on the right (good), and an exposure meter button relocated from the back to the half-depressed shutter button (not so good). On the FX-3, with the camera to my eye I could press the exposure button with my thumb and rotate the speed wheel with my fore-finger. On the FX-3 Super I cannot adjust the speed wheel with my finger pressing the shutter button half-way. I could use my thumb on the backside, but the falm advance lever is in the way. I'm gonna have to build a time machine, travel back to the early 1980's and incapacitate whomever made that non-ergonomic decision. My goal in this purchase was two-fold. One: I have a Vivitar 35mm F/2.5 lens on the Vivitar T/TX interchangeable lens mount system. I have put this lens on my Minolta XG-M, and my three M42 screwmount cameras (GAF L-CM, Vivitar SL/220, Fujica AZ-1) plus I have an M42-screwmount adapter for my Canon EOS film and digital cameras. On the Yashica FX-3 the lens just sings in a way it doesn't on the others. It may be some flange-thickness issue, or it may be in my head, but I was obsessed with this set-up and it didn't disappoint. Secondly, I wanted to cover it in the faux leopard skin of the FX-3, but with the FX-3 Super's intact faux leather skin, it's raised hand-grip and it's Kyocera badge, I decided to wait...for now. I loaded some Kodak Gold 200 and here are the results:<div></div>

<p>Nice! The foliage shot is very cool.</p>

Wow! Great job, Kris! The chair and the bed photos are amazing. I can imagine what beautiful portraits you could take with that camera!

<p>Olympus Stylus Epic (Mju).</p>

smaller...<div></div>

Here are two parallel versions. I have trouble with parallel; I usually make anaglyphs, but then the color is sketchy.<div></div>

<p>Here's a parallel pair. I often make anaglyphs, but that requires the red blue glasses and messes with the colors.</p>

I wish my "fails" looked as good as this! Rick, you always manage to get such stunning results both technically and artisticly.

I got me one!<div></div>

Very Cool!

Ilford FP4. I rated it at 200 in the Kodak Bantam, but the Canon only runs at ISO 100. But since FP4 is box-rated at 125, I figured I could develop it in the same tank with the roll from the Bantam and the exposures were really good. I don;t have 16mm reels for the tank, so I just kind of let it loose in there. I have an old Kodak tank I bought that came with a clear plastic strip with dimples that keep the film in place. That should work for the 110, but I haven't had any problems with my loosy-goosey method.

I like how the pitted, worn exterior opens in dramatic fashion to reveal a gleaming jewel of a lens, the likes you won't find on some modern cellphone camera. Great photos! No point and shoot is going to flatter Miranda like this camera does. As my scrolling revealed the fountain at the winery the first thing my brain said was "freethrow", then "women's basketball statue" then....oh....I see! Great job, Darin!

I roll my own "828". It's just 35mm film with backing paper added that I cut down from 120 film and frame numbers written on it. The car's approx a 1979 Limcoln Mark V. I'm no expert, but I think the 1974 Cadillac Eldorado came with a 500 cubic- inch/8.2 liter engine as an option.

You're right Gordon, it's a rangefinder with a coincident yellow focus patch. I mis-typed.