50PlusCycling I see you mentioned your use and collecting. Before that, the camera eras and their brassing said to me, "photojournalist, perhaps a war theater". In high school, 10 years before I ever touched an SLR, I read Shooter by David Hume Kennerly.

First real shoot today with the SL and the old Leica R lenses. All glass at least 30 years old now. Had planned to do some test shooting of flowers at a local farmer's market. Instead I stepped out of my comfort zone and shot the people. Just set up on the edge of the field and used my 90, 135, and 180 lenses to grab around 600 candid shots. I was purposely working them all pretty much wide open to see how well I could nail focus on the fly. So happy with this setup. The images are done with my normal post processing action in photoshop which is not right for this camera. I need to create a new process to get things right but still happy with these first shots.

Been a while since I had anything new to put up, but now I do.

Minolta SRT Super, with Film Photography Project's Derev Pan 400:

Public chessboard on Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley


Dancers practicing at night, UC Berkeley. The focus is a bit wonky... it was dark.



--Shannon

Same roll, from a ride through Golden Gate Park and down the closed-off part of Great Highway:





East to west through the park. I'm still prone to overexposure, especially when there's a lot of sky, water, or white.

Down at the south end of the Great Highway park, there's a skatepark. I had the 135mm / 2.8 with me, so I spent a while trying to take pictures of skaters skating. I'm not very good at this:








On the way back through the Park and headed for Embarcadero BART and the train back to Oakland, I spotted this "sporterized" CIOCC near the open-air stage by the DeYoung:



Shout out to FPP, Underdog Film Lab, and the GIMP team... maybe someday I'll be worthy of my tools!

--Shannon

This thread has been a bad influence on me. I haven't got back to shooting film but it did motivate me to dig my old Dimage Scan Dual IV out of storage. I haven't fired it up for at least a dozen years. Surprisingly with some help I was able to get it up and running on both my older photo editing desktop and my Windows 10 Laptop. I'm having to relearn this all again but I've started working through my decades worth of old slides archive. Since I've got my old light box out also I'm going to do even more experimenting. Going to see if I can use my old Contax bellows on my digital mirrorless camera to recapture the slides better than the old dedicated scanner. Some initial attempts so it's doable. Of course all of this is making me appreciate the quality and ease of today's digital camera's even more, LOL!

Back in the day i had some film scanners, then went fully digital.
Some years later and I've inherited the family film/camera archive.
I found a Cannon 100mm/f2.8 macro lens and a light box is pretty good for capturing slide and large format film.
Plus I've stored the originals in folders so I could 'scan' them again if I had to.

My Grandad in 1934 (120 negative)

I’ve got a thing for old, nothing fancy rangefinders (and Thomas McGuane novels). The Yashica Electro 35 was inherited (closet find), the others acquired. The ME1 is very light and often comes along on backpacking trips. Fits in a hip pocket just right. Nikon is just plain reliable, and the Soviet Leica knockoff could use some fiddling.

Years ago, when digital cameras were starting to take over, I got bitten by the rangefinder bug. Never owned anything fancy, just a lot of simple fixed-lens cameras because they were cheap and plentiful. Most of them required some repair and adjustment, which I handled myself, thanks to the internet. I got pretty good at calibrating the rangefinder to properly focus the lens. I started with a Petri 7s and gradually added more to the mix, including a Yashica Electro 35 GSN, Minolta Hi-Matic 9, Argus C3, Kodak 35RF, B-A Auto EE, Olympus ECR, Canon A35F, and Olympus XA. The XA could slip into a jersey pocket and survive the fall when I missed the opening.

Great shots of girls and women with flowers.

Rats, I was forced to go looking for my Olympus XA 2.
Not a rangefinder but I did realy like it in the late 70's and I've still got it somewhere.
But that means I've got a second hidden camera stash ... ooooh
Went looking and I haven't found it yet, but I did find something made in Sept 1960:

My Avometer from GEC Hirst Research Centre (my first job)
I may have to get it working again

Dang....

Found yet another old body I had missed earlier. A mint looking Minolta X-7. Which in honesty, isn't an earlier version of the Minolta X-7A I also have still.




The eye piece was in the box with the camera but I'm sure doesn't belong on this one.

After 3 weeks I finally remembered where camera stash #2 was, must be getting old or something.
That was really starting to bug me.

Not quite so old, but these were all bought new by me.



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my camera is a Canon T90
all hail Luigi Colani

Holy cow an MJU-II. Those things command stupid high prices in working condition!
I always loved the XA series. I think I've owned maybe three or four of them over the years. Given all but one original XA away.
Phil

Sheesh, I wasn't aware of that.
Ebay (uk): around £200
Not bad for a 1997 plastic camera.
https://www.dpreview.com/articles/55...for-what-it-is

And for your amusement:
Taken with Fuji MX-700 at a Jessops photography shop corner of Oxford Street and Totenham Court road (their serious shop).
Date: 15th August 1999
(full size)

I have its purse-camera little sister, the LT-1. Fun little piece. I don't think any of the LTs had the f/2.8 that some of the Mjus did, but the 35/3.5 does not suck. (I think it's the 2.8 ones that get the silly money, neh?)

Mine rides in my stem bag as my stays-with-the-bike camera, a role to which it is admirably suited. The smooth, rounded shape and pleather cover fit easily into the bag and come smoothly out of it. Once you've turned it on with the switch, the lens-covering flap works as a standby, so you don't have to remember to turn it on mid-ride, and leaving it on doesn't kill the battery.

The slightly slow, slightly wide lens pairs really well with the kinds of film that it was designed for, (Consumer color films in the 200-400 range,) taking the kinds of pictures in the kinds of conditions that you take on bike rides. (Landscapes, people you just met, and random crap you found on / in the road, in whatever light was the light where you were.)

Great ERC. (Every Ride Camera)

--Shannon

Looks like I could be rich

Not CV but the lenses are......
The other day I bought this Sony A7 for Jade and this adapter arrived today....It allows her to use her "L" glass on the Sony.
Sony now seems to be the camera of choice for under 30 somethings.....


I see no need to toss out the "L" glass for stuff that costs more, often weighs more and is larger....and may or may not be much better image wise.
Best, Ben

Kiron 28mm f 2.



On D-810 here. 1/400 sec at f5.6, ISO 200.
It's a recent acquisition, and still forming opinions. Not sure if the camera rates C&V, but the lens sure does. Classic rendering works well on digital.


At f5.6 here and ISO 400.



Center crop of above image.



-D.S.

MC Rokkor 28/2.0?

I had one, it's still in San Diego... photokid has used it. Mine had the yellowed, radio-decayed coating, so b&w only. Other than that, a great hunk o' glass.

--Shannon

You can fix that. Exposing it to UV light will clear the yellowing up. Some do it by sitting it in sunlight without the caps for a few weeks.

I'm actually "cooking" one of my Pentax's right now for the same Thorium induced yellowing. I'm just using a UVA/UVB reptile light to do it quicker. Just remember, UV is sort of bad for you. I've got mine set up in the tub in my guest bathroom.


Initial setup until I realized I needed to play it safe and moved it to the bathroom

That works, but it can only get rid of so much. I did the window thing, and Photokid has done the hard UV thing. From what he says, it works, but only so well, and only for so long. Sometimes, they're too far gone.

S'ok... they're great in b&w, which is most of what I shoot.

--Shannon

Kiron 28/2.0

Had a Rokkor-X 50 f2 and hated the plastic internals~ similar to the nylon bearing systems used in nikon series E lenses.

-D.S.

I've never heard of anyone not being able to restore a Thorium lens. Sometimes the yellowing is from other reasons, possibly even the cement used between lens elements. Those case can be an issue for sure. Once restored you have to try and avoid leaving it in the dark all the time or it will revert back.

Fortunately for me it's not really and issue since I no longer bother with film. Easy fix with digital in post processing. Still, I want it "right" so I'm cooking 'er.