grapegeek

Yes, the printer will do it's own color management, but we are talking about greyscale here... do a small print and see what it looks like...

You need to select the "Print in Greyscale" option on the Color tab to force it to use the #59 cartridge exclusively.

I am looking at from inside the camera, you can can't see the aperture blades from the front...

I recently picked up a Yashica Electro GS in pretty good condition,

except that when you turn the aperture ring the blades don't move.

It's permanently stuck on f/16. Has anyone seen anything like this

before? I put a battery in it and it fires up OK. I haven't opened up

the lens, but will if it comes down to that...

The only people I've seen that offer 8x10 are Epson. Ilford doesn't make anything in that size either. You can feed your printer Epson paper, but no gaurantees on the longevity, if that's an issue with you...

Probably not since they've already announced the replacements for this line of printers. Check the HP USA website and look under inkjet printers...

I just picked up a Fed 3b for less than a Holga. I've also seen fewer cameras coming up over the past year or so. I'm sure the easy to get supply is dwindling down, but remember the sheer volume of some of these cameras means that they should be easy to get for some time to come...

Someone on dpreview.com mentioned that HP is coming out with the 8xxx series of inkjet printers and they are being manufactured now and I assume they will be in the stores fairly soon...

I used the Inktec refill system. I can't tell the difference in my prints. They claim that the ink they use meets or exceeds OEM standards. It's about a 1/4 the price of new cartridges.

When I use the Ilford Pearl, I use the Premium Plus Matte option. Works great.

 

Funny you should mention the Black Only printing (B0) on the 7960. I just ran a series of test on Epson Heavyweight Matte paper using just the #56 cartridge (pigment black ink) and have given up for now. I really liked the color of the ink, but a lot of detail gets lost because it was too grainy. I checked the specs on the #56 and it has 17 picoliter drops. The Espon 2200 has something like 2 pl drops.

 

As a comparison, I printed the same picture using the #56 and the #59 on the Epson matte paper and held them up side by side and you can really see a green tint to the #59 ink and the #56 was dead on black.

 

If you have any tricks for doing good BO printing, let me know...

I've been using Ilford Classic Pearl and I think it gives better results than the HP papers. When I hold up the papers together, the Ilford paper seems to be whiter and prints from it look better. At least my B&W prints do.

 

As for panorama prints. If you can find some 14" long paper, you might be able to print off some panos...

BTW, you can pull all the other carts out of the printer and just leave the #59 if you think the color cartridges are causing a problem.

BTW, you can pull all the other carts out of the printer and just leave the #59 if you think the color cartridges are causing a problem.

I have a 7660 and I think it produces great B/W prints, sometimes. At first I was impressed with the output of the printer. Then recently, I was holding up a print on HP Premium Plus Matte next to one I did on Epson heavyweight matte and it had a greenish cast to it. The paper is not dead white like the Epson paper was. So, I went out and bought some Ilford Classic Pearl paper and voila! The greenish cast was gone. The Ilford paper is much whiter than the HP paper and now my prints look like true B&W again. I'm wondering if I got some bad paper. It really should be that off white, IMHO.

I've run it both ways, with or without the #57 cartridge in while I was printing. No effect when doing grayscale prints when the #57 cart was present or not.

I have the 7660. Great printer for B&W. When I do B&W on it I just leave in the #57 (tricolor) cartridge and insert the #59 in the other slot and select the Grayscale option on the Color tab.

 

I've experiemented with the #56 cartridge for B&W prints, but while the ink is a true black, the cartridge has a 17 pl sized drop and they are evident on light gray areas.

I did what someone else had suggested and drilled a hole through the body cap of my 300D and taped on a pinhole I had made and used before. All of my images were blurry. What I suspect is that the sensor is too small and you need a very percision pinhole so as not to pick up every imperfection in a handmade pinhole. I'd love to see some results if anyone has some good ones...

They pop up on eBay from time to time.

I found a link to an Instamatic 100 manual. It's the same exact camera as the 104, except it didn't take a flash cube:

 

http://www.cybcity.com/caminfo/Instamatic100/ki100-1.htm

 

BTW, you can usually get some flash cubes on eBay pretty cheap. Here is a link for 9 boxes of them and the current bidding is at $5 with less than a day to go...

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2981870185&category=48549

I have 3 Canonets QL17s and one of them with a case. The Canonet cases are notorious for not standing the test of time, as they crack and crumble very easily. I have seen them occasionaly on eBay, so keep an eye out there...

This is a very common problem with older cameras. If it's like many older cameras there is a little bit of foam that stops the mirror when it flips up. In these older cameras, it turns to this gummy, gooey stuff and will stick to anything. A CLA will fix the problem, if you can find a service center to fix it, but it is something that any reasonably handy person can do. If you want some guidance on the web, go to Matt's Classic Camera Collection website. It's full of great cleaning and repair tips for old cameras

 

http://homepage.mac.com/mattdenton/photo/cameras/

It sure looks like it...

 

http://www.photoworkshop.com/double_exposure/publish/article_560.shtml

It's going to be a long time before people in "developing" countries can afford digital... just think of the cost of the computer to hook up to your digital camera... I think most chinese would rather buy a cheap Holga and a roll of film...