peter_fowler

Recent Pentacon Six TL with my Mir 26 (45mm) lens on some expired Acros !

Train bridge over the Fraser river between New Westminster and Surrey ,B.C.

Not a minute later a train crossed over , Holy Crap , was that Loud ! Peter

Quality control as only the former USSR can deliver , I got rid of my Flektogon ( it was really awful ) and replaced it

with (guess what ? ) the 45mm MIR and couldn't be happier , go figure :) . Peter

You're going to love this , just today I dropped in at Beau Photo in Vancouver and saw 2 Kowa Six 2's and a Kowa Six ,

all in good working order :) . Pity I didn't see these 1/2 year ago . Peter

Good choice I'd say , having used one almost non stop for over half a decade . Before spending any further money , might I suggest

a thin plate of glass over the negatives and then scan . Sometimes with slide film you may get Newtonian rings and sometimes not .

It works surprisingly well for me . Peter

Possibly it time to get another back and return to the original when there's something more photo worthy with

the unfinished film :) . Peter

Must say though Joe , a year or so ago I got the ingredients , real ascorbic acid , digital scale etc. and got good results

right off the get go .Must be my age , but I don't find the aroma offensive :) . But it's sure a lot quicker to use HC-110.

To each his own , Regards, Peter

And then there's some of us (me) , that carefully ( I thought ) backed up all his negative scans and stored them

on a thumb drive ! Drum roll ,hard drive failed and yeah all 1400 of them were there , but only identified with a jpg #

, crap , who was to know what else you were to do ? Every picture was identified with camera type and date . Ain't

technology great ? Peter

Now I'm going to have to go back through some pics and see if I can find some from my Welta Weltur .

They're sure a lot easier to cart around than the other medium format cameras I slug to foreign

countries ( telling myself I just know I'm going to need a selection of lens , practically never :( ) . Peter

^ A little lock down picture taking with the Kowa Super Sixty Six and HP5+ . And some Pampas grass from my

wife's garden :) . Peter

Almost unbelievable , I rode to Laconia on Bsa's , Sportsters and Moto Guzzi LeMans for 25 years from the middle

70's to 2000 , and hard tail Panheads were prolific :) . Peter

I've considered an ae-111 for my Etrs , but the price was always high . However , I really miss an in camera

light meter ( for travel , I use transparency , Provia 100f ) and was wondering about how well they work ? Could you mention the selling price

of the one you got ? Peter