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I've got a SPII, a Fujica ST701, Practica MTL3, Yashica Electro and a Vivitar 450/SLD. Each was cheap, and userful in it's own way.

 

The SPII just feels and looks nice. The Fujica is the smallest, and also has a nice feel, but the shutter speed dial is somewhat stiff. The Practica is okay and is probably indestructible, but I find the takeup spool finicky. My Yashica has a dead meter, and a missing shutter speed dial plate, so I just have to crank to 1000 or B, and work backwards. The Vivitar is very solid, and is the heaviest and also probably has the most features, center-weighted and spot meter, metal shutter (Practica is also metal shuttered), MLU with self-timer, and meters & stops-down when you half-press the shutter. It's also rather loud.

 

Yes, all with work without batteries and have a full range of mechanical shutter speeds.

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yes... they're a bit flat. How's this one?

 

I scanned them straight from the negatives.

 

Matt: yes, this was at Yonge & Dundas outside the Eaton's Centre<div></div>

Unicycle 3<div></div>

Unicycle 2<div></div>

Toronto Street Fest Unicycle team.

 

FP4+ in HC110, IIIa w/ uncoated Elmar.<div></div>

I bought my Minolta Scan Dual (the original, not II or III or IV) from MP Superstore as a refurb for about USD$100-, and it's been working great for 6 months so far.

They have long since sold out of this item.

Last October<div></div>

Keepers

1. Ziess Contaflex, Kiev 3m, Leica III, Zorki 2c, SRT101 w/ 58mm 1.4, Konica S2, Yashica GSN, Konica/Ward S 550 (bought from Dan :), Pentax SPII w/ 55mm f2 and a whole bunch of non-pre 70's, including numerous 70's & 80's models.

 

Fav

2. DReb :), SRT101, Leica III, and my other manual minolta's.

 

Most bang

3. SRT101 w 1.4, Zorki 2c

 

Disappointments

4. Mostly just camera's that don't always work properly.

Not having enough time to put a rolled thru every camera.

 

Wanted List

5. Canon GIII QL1.7 (on it's way), Kiev 60 and/or 88CM, Speed Graphic (any), Minolta XD11, Rollieflex (any medium format)... for now :)

I've tried it with the Hoya R72, and it does work, but the in camera meter is horribly fooled. My guess is that the meter is not IR shielded, but the image sensor is.

 

But since it's digital, metering is moot anyhow. Just take the shot, and check the histogram on the review.

 

I can't remember off hand, but about iso100 & 1 sec sounds about right.

I've bought a few items from Dan Iggers, and _way_ too much stuff from Ebay in general :). If "Buy It Now" is available, and the price is reasonable, I'll get it.

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Toronto, Canada<div></div>

How about just a cardboard box that just fits inside your darkbag, with 2 holes cut out for your hands? Otherwise, all you really need is just some frame to keep the material off your hands.

 

If your bathroom is not dark enough during the day (like mine), how about at night? If I turn off all the lights, and close the blinds to cut out the streetlights, it's dark enough.

 

If that doesn't work, how about a long sleeve shirt and a pair of gloves?

Just shot the screen in RAW, and then use the RAW converter to get an uncompressed tif, a "L superfine", then use Photoshop to convert the tif to a jpeg @ the 12 - 8 settings, and compare.

Nice list, I lean more towards 35mm, but here goes, classics/pre-70 only.... (?) for camera's where I'm not sure of the vintage.

 

35mm SLR's

 

Minolta SRT101

 

Pentax SPII (?)

 

Zeiss Contaflex IV

 

 

35mm Rangefinders

 

Century Graphics 35

 

Zorki 2C

 

Konica S/Ward 550 (?)

 

Argus C3

 

Kiev 3a

 

Leica III

 

Kodak Retina IIa

 

 

35mm Viewfinder

 

Kodak Retinette IIb

 

Kodak Retina 1

 

Halina 35x

 

 

6x6

 

Fionix Foitzik Trier (folder)

 

Ricohflex Million (TLR)

 

 

6x9

 

Moskva 5

 

Kodak No. 1 Autographic

 

 

Other

 

Polaroid 850

I don't have one in mine. Have you tried cleaning the viewfinder with a q-tip?

The junkyard I have near my place (Toronto, ON), allows customers to rummage thru the junker's for parts, so shooting there would be no problem. On any given day, there's probably 30 to 50 guys crawling under/over/thru the wrecks looking for whatever.

I bought the 75-300 USM & 50, and it's great. The 75-300 is mostly for birding right now.

 

The 50 is great for low light. I was shooting in a candle light party with no flash, and cranked up the iso to 800/1600. The noise was not objectionable for 4x6's from my i860 printer. It was fun to pass out the 4x6's, and have people say... "that's from tonight!"

Henry's (henrys.ca) has film + processing for $15.99 but it has to be mailed out, and turnaround is about 3 weeks and it's Kodak.

 

Provia 100 36exp is about $11.49.

 

I would also like to know who processes E6 locally and is cheap.