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<p>Thanks guys, I will get professional help. Where should I go? I'm in San Francisco and considering Advance Camera, although if there's a Canon FD specialist I will use them.</p>

<p>Bob, that's what I was thinking too, and it may be. It doesn't have the characteristic branching pattern of fungus but it still might be. How can I remove the front element to clean it off?</p>

<p>I can't seem to take a photo on my phone that will show this, but my Canon FD 85mm 1.2L has two spots on the inside of the front element -- they are relatively large (1mm by 4mm perhaps) and look like soap spots or similar.</p>

<p>What is this? How can I deal with it? Can I open the lens and clean the front element? If I can get a repair manual I can do this, I'm decently handy mechanically.</p>

<p>I am looking to tag along with a pro photographer. Don't want to deal with clients, just want to take pictures.</p>

<p>I'm a software developer interested in the idea of shooting a wedding and I'd like to try it. But I don't want to just show up like a creep at someone's wedding randomly and then send them the pictures :)</p>

<p>So here is the situation: You give me a CompactFlash card at the beginning of the wedding and take me along, and I'll give you the CF card at the end of the day. Simple as that.</p>

<p>San Francisco only, thanks.</p>

<p>Thanks Nadine. </p>

<p>Thanks Larry. Will find a different option.</p>

<p>I'm shooting a friend's small wedding because they can't afford a photographer, and as a gift I would like to make them a matted album of my best photos. It doesn't have to be Italian calf leather or anything like that, but I am looking to buy a nice matted album either with the slip-in mats you buy separately, or a predetermined ordering of mats.</p>

<p>Unfortunately everyone who sells these sells only to professional photographers, so I have no idea how much they cost, or how to buy them, etc... it's like a black hole only available to pros. How can an ordinary Joe buy one of these?</p>

<p>Larry - just develop, no scanning or CD required. I'm going to print them myself in the darkroom. I can work with a safelight, I just can't work in darkness.</p>

<p>Frank, I've tried developing film myself MANY times. I just cannot get a hang of doing anything in complete darkness, I get very anxious and I've damaged multiple rolls of film trying to learn. I don't want to bring a stressful component into what should be an enjoyable hobby.</p>

<p>Planning on swinging by Walmart to drop off 10 rolls of slide film. Never done this before but have heard that they send it to Dwayne's. </p>

<p>I'm wondering, do they mount 35mm slides in plastic mounts or cardboard mounts? If I write "plastic mounts please" will they do this or will they mount in cardboard? I'd rather have sleeved than cardboard mounts.</p>

<p>I'd like to have my black and white film developed in a lab, and then do the printing myself. What's a good lab that will economically develop 20 rolls of Tri-X or HP5? (and which one should I use? I know that Ilford has a black and white line that they sell to labs, so should I use Ilford film)?</p>

<p>I'd like to keep the cost under $5 per film if possible. Scans/contact prints, etc. are not necessary since I'm planning on doing those myself. </p>

<p>Craig, I love shooting film but quality processing is getting harder and harder to find, and the quality LCD monitor in a dark room is a presentation medium that seems to beat even my carefully designed slide projection setup. <br>

I'm not predicting a full frame EVIL based on current manufacturer activity -- I'm betting on it just as a matter of course with technological improvement. Kind of like I can predict a $500 full frame 20 megapixel DSLR within 5 years. <br>

Canon and Nikon will see the need for full frame EVIL to stay competitive, and even if they don't, someone will buy the sensor and manufacture the body (perhaps Cosina) because the demand for such a device would be high for people trying to get more mileage out of old but excellent glass such as Canon FD, Zuiko, Pentax.<br>

If Canon makes a full frame EVIL I expect that it would be able to fully electronically couple to EF lenses but could probably take any lens manually.</p>

<p>The recent surge of EVIL cameras, and the extreme pace of progress in digital, makes me convinced that a full-frame mirrorless EVIL camera will be here in under 2 years. </p>

<p>I just bought $2000 of Canon FD glass because I'm anticipating such a camera and will use it in conjunction with my AE-1 and A-1.</p>

<p>Bought the 24/2, 85/1.2, 135/2, and 200/2.8.</p>

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<p>Canon A-1 with 50mm 1.8 is a great starter kit. The F-1 is a great machine but the mercury battery and fragile meter is a bit of a deal-killer for a first camera.</p>

<p>50mm 1.2 non-L lens is kind of crummy, you'll see that in just an 8x10 enlargement. Much better to go with the 50mm 1.4 or the 50mm 1.2L if you want to pay that kind of $$$ (and frankly, I've never seen what 1.2 really gives you over 1.4 in low-light abilities OR in narrow DOF)</p>

<p>Thanks to everyone for their opinions! I think I will get an Elan II and upgrade if I really get into the EOS system.</p>

<p>Without using flash (subject is too far away), I would like to freeze my subject's motion after a bit of motion blur. One way I can think of to do this is to expose the image first at a small aperture, say f/16, for maybe half a second and then open up for a few hundredths of a second at f/4. Do any cameras support this?</p>

<p>Hi, new guy here. I am mostly a Canon FD shooter -- I use an A-1 and the 50/1.4, 24/2.0, and 135/2.8. I've recently moved to a place where I live next door to a photography store that has great rental prices on some of Canon's fantastic new lenses such as the 85mm/1.2 for $30 per weekend and the 24/1.4L for $25 per weekend.</p>

<p>I don't take enough pictures to justify a full-frame digital, so I need to get a cheap EOS film body to take advantage of these rentals. I'm looking to spend $75 or less, of which there are many on KEH.com (although I am skeptical of KEH Bargain equipment after returning a defective FD 85/1.2L last week), but I'm just very unfamiliar with the EOS line of cameras and am wondering what people would recommend as a good film camera that can handle beefy lenses like a 24/1.4 or 85/1.2 but not be too unwieldy when paired with a vanilla 50/1.8. Number one concern is autofocus accuracy and speed, second is build quality, and third is size.</p>

<p>For conversation starters, I am looking at the EOS-1 (fear it will be too big, $62 BGN at KEH), 650 or 700 ($39 EX), "Elan" ($94), and the Rebel G ($45).</p>

<p>Thanks for your thoughts!</p>