Recent content by Axelwik

I sent an M2 to KEH with a shutter problem and they fixed it as part of the CLA, no extra charge. Have taken that camera all over the world since then and it's been flawless.

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Some used lenses are in excellent shape and others not so much. Other than the ravages of time and how they were used, treated, and stored there's probably not much difference between the two. Sure, in general original LTM lenses are older. A lens made for LTM in 1950 and one made for an M...

Mystery film? Put some into a tank and develop it. If it's really old it might be pretty fogged, but you might still be able to read the edge markings.

Within the past year with several inspections going in and out of several countries in the southern hemisphere and back and forth to the US they only made me put it through low level x-ray machines twice, and that was once in Brisbane Australia during a very busy time and Papua New Guinea once...

Thanks for letting us know what you decided. You'll get a good start with those two lenses - maybe all you'll ever need, depending on how you shoot with 5x7. Use them for a year and see what happens.

Sometimes it adds interest to photograph runners from a different perspective. I've used a wide lens from above to good effect. Set a good hyperfocal distance and attach the camera to a monopod with a long release. Helps to have a motor winder. The same setup from ground level looking up, camera...

Yeah, just about any good quality 35mm camera with good lenses works well - comes down to preferences such as SLR vs rangefinder etc. I have a pile of Hasselblad stuff that will probably get sold. Might keep an SWC and the Rolleiflex. My 4x5 kit with 2 or 3 lenses is lighter to carry than the...

If you really want an image with maximum sharpness, stop hand holding the camera and put it on a tripod. I've had a paradigm shift in recent years: I gravitated to 35mm rangefinders for hand held photos which has good enough image quality especially with newer films and development techniques...

Instead of a loupe, I use very powerful reading glasses (6x). Much faster to use than a loupe especially when using tilt etc. and I've never missed focus.

Not at all. At f9 a 300mm lens has a shallow depth of field.

I find myself using a 180 more than any other with 5x7. Mine is the tiny little Fujinon A, but also have a Nikon 5.6 180 which is 3x the size and weight, but probably has more coverage and at least as sharp and one stop faster, which you might or might not need. I almost always go with the...

Could try a drop of light oil, like sewing machine oil.

Only one comment on the photos? I suppose this is a camera forum, clearly not a photography forum.

I just flew from the US to Chile and back. No issues at all with asking them to hand check the film both ways. It was 35mm film, but bulk loaded in generic black cassettes and a couple of Leica FILCA brass cassettes.