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I think a Barnack Leica is cool, and is my pocket camera, but the Russian copies are very

cheap and have similar size/ergonomics.

Get a camera with NO batteries and it will always be ready. Assuming you have it.And

there's film in it. If you want a pocket digital, just get a new cell phone.

I have a few motorcycles and scooters. Moto Guzzi LeMans, Bultaco Frontera and Metralla,

and such.

Jim-very good points, and really in line with my own experience. I sold a few prints in the

'70s, and nice as they looked they were never satisfactory to my eye even then. The

purchase, however, was based on seeing the slide projected!

I find negatives scan much easier-I guess it's easier to make prints with (hah) print film

even now . So I guess there's truth in all sides. I hope we continue to have so much choice.

Jim, if you compare most scanned Velvia to a digital file on a screen, the digital camera will

likely win every time-most consumer scanners are unable to capture slide detail very well,

and Velvia in particular. Besides, you're comparing first generation image to a second

generation.

If you want to compare Velvia to digital, put the Velvia on a light table and look through a

loupe-or get a drum scan that can get more of the detail out. Or, scan a film that is easier

to scan-Reala, black and white, etc. I get great scans from Provia, and they make a much

better 8x10 than I get with my digicam.

You know, with no film sales to keep people going, and cell phone cameras getting better

(and free), the camera makers have no choice but try to sell upgrades. Of course, with very

advance in scanner technology, film keeps raising the bar!

If that doesn't work, here's an inexpensive but excellent place for repair. These cameras

are worth the effort regardless of how little you may have paid for it.

If you haven't already, turn the shutter control knob from Auto to M or 125. Sometimes,

especially with low batteries, the mirror locks up (why it's dark in the VF) and the shutter

hangs.

Thanks-in further confirmation of your diagnoses, I took it out in the cold today, and I

think all my shots are going to be overexposed by the sound of things.

Hello,

I recently bought a Yashica 635 TLR, and I've noticed something about the shutter-

If I fire the shutter at a low speed, say 1/25, and then move it up to 1/250 or 1/500, the

speed seems slow until the shutter is then fired at least once at 1/500. I can figure out

some work-arounds, but is there anything I'm missing?

Other than that, it seems OK, and is a lot of fun to use. I shot a roll of Velvia yesterday,

likely try some print film today so I'll know how serious the whole affair is soon enough.

Thanks,

Aaron

Ray, our email clients are feuding with each other-yours blocked mine, mine blocked

yours in retaliation. Hope they clear it up soon!

I'm only 2 hrs from Albany.

Not only are your posts great fun to read, they prove that it's the photographer, not the

camera that makes the picture.

Riding motorcycles around and finding great streams-last summer I took my Moto Guzzi

on a long trip on dirt roads, found a beautiful roadside stream, went swimming-and only

had a crappy cell phone camera. I mean terrible. No more of that!

I haven't had any trouble with this problem, and I use the thummnail view. I use the

"professional" mode, but the full-auto worked fine too.

Are you positioning the slide/film holder correctly? It has to be re-oriented for slides. If

you use the basic mode, the scanner looks for cues on the holder to decide what you're

scanning, and how to separate.

Gene, seeing your photos of scenes from around my house-well, I'll stop complaining

about the weather.

That's a beautiful picture. I wouldn't crop it-the background gives it the life it must have

had when you took it.

You can keep the dime, eh-but it means (according to Kate) something that is very

harmonious, or sweet in performance. As in a fine yacht or camera.

Your photos are wonderful. Thank you for sharing them. All taken with the same camera/

lens? That cures most of my gear lust!

The only time I ever had film problems on my IIIf was on a "trimmed" elongated leader. A

square one would be just fine.

Actually, I did something like this on another forum-but somehow I don't feel compelled

to repeat it here. Besides, the differences were obvious. Different details, even different

interpretations of color on B&W film.

You really can get by without a meter, especially if you keep track of settings that work,

and notes about conditions, such as shadows, being able to read the date on your watch,

etc..

But when I use the Gossen Luna Pro, I do notice the "good" exposure percentage goes up.

What a great photographer-the pictures are very interesting even without a back-story. I'll

bet there are photo albums floating around with their work.

These are almost certainly pre-WWII shots, and the young men are of an age where they

likely went to war not too long after these were taken.

(see, the pictures get me to thinking!)

I have one downstairs-my first camera, bought in 1975. I actually sold a few pictures with

it back then.

It went through a few family members and returned to me with a locked-up shutter-

maybe someday I'll fix it. Nice lens, pretty good camera, and the stop-down metering/DOF

preview is nice. Not worth much, though.