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A shot of my Niece looking absent minded and another of the local beach. These were shot on a Canon VL2 with my favourite wide-angle LTM, a W-Komura 35mm f3.5. I took a chance on it about 6 months ago as a replacement for a Jupiter 12 that I was constantly fearful of damaging the rear element on (and a worry every time I screwed it into the Canon). Very little about it on the web, but it's more than just a third-party curiosity. The lens is very sharp and has really nice tonal rendition.

A couple that I shot about a year ago on Rollei APX 25 that I've just got around to scanning. Can't remember the the camera but I think it might have been a Olympus 35 SP.

I'll try again, at a reasonable size!

First post-Xmas wander. Experiments in grain with a pocketful of HP5 30 years past it's expiry.

Some I shot in the mist this morning of the Victorian water tower near my house. Shot on Macophot UP400 (FM2n & 20mm) and developed in Rodinal 1+25. Not my best day due to light leaks and a snapped film which resulted in me having to crop the shots.

I shot this about a year ago on a Konica S3 Auto that I no longer have and Fujicolor 100. I just got around to doing some tonal adjustments in photoshop.

@jpalmer57 you wouldn't know it's cheap film from the photos. Really nice tonal qualities.

A few from the summer shot on Fujicolor 100.

Didn't go far last week, so these are shot in or near my house. All shot with a Nikkor 55mm Micro the bushes on Plus-X, and the other two on Orwo Pan 125.

A couple of still life's with the plus-x and a Halloweeny shot on my Perkeo II with a roll of 220 FP4 I needed to use.

A few lunch hour photos from last week shot on some 40 year old plus-x I got for a song. I had to rate it at 25 ISO after the decades had reduced the speed. The camera was a Nikon FM2n with 20mm lens - developed in Rodinal 1 + 50.

Hi Paul, thanks for the info. You're welcome to use the photos, don't worry you don't have to credit them to me. They're just snapshots, not really pictures I value, I just took them for documentary purposes.

Thanks Michael! :)

Possibly an Olympus OM-1? I know my old college used OM cameras for the students because they had manual functions, and were of good quality for a relatively low price.

Love my FM2n. It has never let me down.

Konica C35

I would definitely 2nd all those who have mentioned the Olympus 35 RC & the Olympus XA, (both very small and pocket-able with great lenses). The Konica S3 Auto is slightly larger but with a fantastic lens. The Konica C35 rangefinder is also worth mentioning, if you learn to recognise them from slightly different (C35 Auto etc.) models, you might get a bargain on eBay, it's small with a very nice lens - but be careful, there are many different versions of the Konica C35.

I bought a 100ft reel of 40 year old Kodalith Type 3 recently, I've yet to test it and find out how low to rate the speed after all this time, but assuming it still works I wondered what other members experiences with lith film and different developers are. I've bought some Adotech IV developer just out of curiosity to see how this low contrast developer works with Kodalith. Has anyone else tried Kodalith and Adotech, and what kind of results did you get? I will try it myself at some point just to scratch that itch, but I couldn't find any net reference to experiments with this combination. Any photos using lith film with different developers would be appreciated.

I used to be of that mind Mike, but I found it a pain getting to the stuff I liked through some of the junk I'd kept.

Sorry, I meant Rick!

Thanks Mike, you didn't see the pile that went in the bin! :)

Pier Image.