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    White lines in developed negatives

    in Black & White Practice

    Posted

    <p>Hi,<br>

    'agitation' is as you say inverting and rotation and a tap or two (and not shaking!).<br>

    I guess all of us have our own methods though.<br>

    It looks a bit like a camera problem as the film is opened out and out of the cassette. Perhaps it's an old camera not used too often and with a film left in it, so that any tiny light leak affects just a couple of frames.</p>

    <p>Andy.</p>

    Is it better to have a Rangefinder or a SLR

    in Classic Manual Film Cameras

    Posted

    <p>Sorry about posting twice. Can't see how to get rid of the second one.<br>

    A</p>

    <p>Hi,<br /> It's how you get on with either type that counts I think. I've had a 111a, 11c and an M3 as well as all sorts of SLRs, and the Nikon F is what I like to stick my face to.<br /> Rangefinders remind me of Graham Miles' stance at snooker. I could never work how he managed to pot anything at all!<br /> Andy.</p>

    Sell the M9 get a Samsung Galaxy SIII

    in Leica and Rangefinders

    Posted

    <p>My phone doesn't have a camera, so I get to lug around a Nikon F if I want to photograph anything. When they make a phone that takes film I may see about getting one.<br>

    I do get quite good reception on the phone when I'm outside and it also has a torch in it which is useful when I'm looking for the camera in a darkened room, like where I am now.</p>

    Nikon contest bans film cameras

    in Casual Photo Conversations

    Posted

    <p>Hi,<br /> Curses Moriaty. I just scraped together the money for a Nikon F so I could have a really good camera for this contest. It has the non-AI 50/1.4 AND I cleaned that and it's yellow filter with some Windolene just to get the best I could out of it. <br /> Nowadays you don't need any kind of camera to shoot pictures or video and that must be scary for these huge companies who used to rely on the aspirational ones among us to buy their expensive resource intensive products. When you get scared you curl up in a ball and pretend you're dead. That's Nikon for you.<br /> Is Nikon seriously saying that W. Eugene Smith could/would have taken his pictures on an iphone?<br /> Part of the problem for the digital image machine makers is the speed of change and miniaturization that goes with it. The F lasted in production for about 15 years and now there's a new 4G phone every 3 days.<br /> I don't think Nikon know who their customers are any more and they just flail about with new products hoping someone will buy something they produce. At one time I imagine they were proud of the cameras they made, what Robert Pirsig might have thought of as conforming to a concept of Quality.<br /> Now the Marketing jobsworths control the line, and the engineers are all gone.</p>

    <p>I'm proud to say I shoot film; and even though I don't enter photo contests every week I still shower twice a month.<br>

    Andy</p>

    Film to Digital advice sought

    in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

    Posted

    <p>Hi,<br>

    I am/was looking for a scanner to digitise all (!) my old negs, but my dealings with digital work is totally amateur and dilettantish, and reading Jeff Sudduth's post earlier has made me realise that what I know a tiny bit about is printing a photo in a darkened room; digital has made me lazy..Robert Pirsig wrote about Quality and that is what trying to produce a decent print is all about it seems to me, a combination of science, art, vision and magic.<br>

    Thank you, Jeff. A few simple words unglued my mind; so I won't be buying no scanner anytime soon. I have a lupe and my Nikkor 50/1.4 if I need it, to study negs under a reading light and a sheet of white paper and then see whether I can get some half-decent printing done when the nights draw in and I can hide away in the kitchen with the enlarger set up on a worktop. Ah, yes, a simple life and a chance to trip over the cat in the dark.<br>

    What is the point/use of digitising a few images (at what seems to be an extortionate cost to get a decent digital copy...$2, 000 for a scanner?) that you want to show family and friends when you could (just as easy?) print them? Being a professional is a completely different kind of kettle in today's busy, busy World, but for the rest of us.......!</p>

    <p>Andy.</p>

     

    1940s Camera

    in Casual Photo Conversations

    Posted

    <p>Hi,<br>

    With the fedora (and a betting stub in the hatband...I've just seen Gerry Siegel's post and the betting stub is really a Press Ticket!), I think there will need to be a chewed-up ceegar rolling around in your mouth. There is also a requirement for a very heavy tweed type overcoat, belted at the waist and with the collar turned up at all times. It will be necessary to speak (temporarily) out of the corner of your mouth away from the stogie and utter words such as popsicle, limey, peachy, sweetpea, gedoudahere and so on. It should also be raining and your shoes will have holes in the soles.</p>

    <p>Good Luck.</p>

    <p>Andy.</p>

    Goofed

    in Nikon

    Posted

    <p>Hi,<br>

    Back in the old days I bought an OM3 which then only a few weeks later developed a fault with its' meter. I took it back to the shop in north London and the manager took the bottom plate of a new one and put it on mine and gave me the new OM3 with my plate on the bottom! That was where the serial number was. </p>

    <p>Andy.</p>

    The most reliable one

    in Classic Manual Film Cameras

    Posted

    <p>Hi,<br>

    <br />My bad..I was thinking both of my 111a, which had pinholes and of the OM3, which didn't and as you say, couldn't and just lumped all cloth shutters in together. Thinking on it properly there is no chance of pinholes in an SLR, so my apologies for a lazy post.<br>

    My thoughts were by then on the theft of my OM which I hope has developed faults unknown in any other SLR, such as pinholes and fallen arches.</p>

    <p>Andy.</p>

    The most reliable one

    in Classic Manual Film Cameras

    Posted

    <p>Hi,<br>

    Best, without any doubt from me....the Nikon F.<br>

    I have 3 (with Photomic Tn heads), all bought cheap at car boot sales with non-working meters, but after putting new batteries in, the meters all came back to life! I thought maybe one would work and the others could be donor cameras, but they are so solidly built, all 3 will go on for another 45 years. I'm inclined to think they were hand made.<br>

    I like OMs but I always worried about the cloth shutter curtains developing pinholes..my OM3, which was a lovely camera, was stolen soon after I'd bought it and I'm hoping it has developed 4000 holes in each curtain and that the meter underexposes by a random number of stops with each photo taken. And I've hoped that since 1983.<br>

    Worst? ..... Contax S2, the one with spot metering. It took pictures alright, but I left it in a draft one day, it caught a chill and died.<br>

    <br />Andy.</p><div>00apTM-496835584.JPG.ab1500e7b5b51a08e219d5475a4af978.JPG</div>

    Nikon vs. Digital; Canon vs. Photoshop

    in Casual Photo Conversations

    Posted

    <p>I've finally understood part of what that phrase "the medium is the message" means. well,maybe. It's about thinking that the medium has something to do with the message, when of course it's irrelevant in most cases. I never said I was bright.<br>

    I've been taking pictures since I was a youngster 57 years ago....and I always thought if I got a better camera I could/would take better pictures. I realise it's a kind of ego thing, especially so , since my 91 year old Mum has used an Agfa Silette for 40 years and has only in the last few months taken on my old Coolpix to try her hand at digital. Why did I give her the Coolpix? Obviously enough, because I was getting a better camera!<br>

    That camera was a Samsung NX100, for which I have only the highest praise; but using it made me realise how much I missed film and that really I didn't like/ couldn't cope with all the technology wrapped up in the digital body. Too much ease of use.<br>

    So that's been posted off for a trade-in. I love taking pictures, but I really wish I was a little better at it!</p>

    <p>Andy.</p>

    samsung nx100

    in Mirrorless Digital Cameras

    Posted

    <p>Hi All,<br>

    <br />This little camera seems a bit overlooked, so I'm putting in a good word for it.<br>

    I bought an adapter so I could use my old non-AI lenses on it as well and I'm getting to really like it.<br>

    I bought it originally as I thought I could photo my negs (35mm and 6x6) using a slide copier on it and get a decent look at what I've been taking photos of over the last 40 years on the computer screen, but I've read and been told that because the sensor is not the same size as the neg that idea won't work lol <br>

    <br />Anyway, that's me not learning enough and not the camera's fault!<br>

    Andy.</p>

    What film camera are you using most often?

    in Leica and Rangefinders

    Posted

    <p>Hi,<br>

    Nikon F.<br>

    I bought 3, all cheap and each with a non functioning Ftn Photomic head. I switch them about as and when and think I got 3 of the best cameras ever built. Bodies and lenses are 50 years old at least and they will still take wonderful pictures in another 50 years.<br>

    A Hundred year old digital camera? I think not.</p>

    <p>Andy.</p>

    Thoughts on Olympus OM Bodies...

    in Classic Manual Film Cameras

    Posted

    <p>Hi,<br>

    I later bought 2 OM1n's and an OM1 second-hand- not all at the same time!- and thought they were very similar in weight and so on to the 3, but at the same time I was constantly comparing them to the 3 in facility and felicity of use and they fell short of the 3 by a long way. A much more serious problem to me was the shutter curtain, as I also had a couple of second-hand Leicas (2x111a, a 11 and an M2 !) and one of these had some pinholes in it's shutter curtains and I became a bit paranoid about the OMs developing the same problems. I'm afraid to say I cast aside the Leicas and OMs for metal shuttered bodies, of which by far the worst was a brand new Contax S2, (with spot metering) which expired after a few months with bad seals which ruined the lens threading and shutter speeds!<br>

    I seem to have come full circle now with simple mechanical cameras, just 3 old Nikon F bodies and non functional FTn heads.There is no comparison really with the OMs, except for the functional beauty of the engineering strategies to design and make the best camera of it's age. Both models were that and that perhaps is sufficient.<br>

    Andy.</p>

    Thoughts on Olympus OM Bodies...

    in Classic Manual Film Cameras

    Posted

    <p>Hi,<br>

    I bought an OM3 when they first came out and what a beauty it was. I thought it perfect. Typically it was stolen by some lowlife who 25 odd years later I still hope has come to an awful end. Camera number ended ..8925 I seem to recall!<br>

    Apparently the OM3 was hand built. Even that couldn't help me take better photos, but I certainly felt a lot better about the bad ones I got.<br>

    Andy.</p>

    Honest, is it the camera or the picture?

    in Classic Manual Film Cameras

    Posted

    <p>Hi.<br>

    I've bought new cameras --OM3, Contax S2, Canon F1, SRT 101 etc etc and I've bought old cameras-- Nikon F (3 at present), Leica M2, 111a etc etc! Just now I only have the old Nikons.<br>

    The vast majority of my pics over the last 45 years are rubbish and the ones that aren't are just bad. But I do love taking photos. As to whether it's the camera or not, I have no idea. I am just going to keep plodding on .<br>

    Andy. </p>

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