Recent content by Bearman

Since you're in AZ, you might look to Advance Camera in Portland, OR, or find somebody on Mike Eckman's list. As a Canon P owner, I'd be interested to hear how it goes. Good luck.

Been a few years since I've purchased anything from aki but he's great: https://aki-asahi.com/store/ From my bookmarks... https://hugostudio.com/index.html https://cameraleather.com/ Raw materials and tools... https://japanhobbytool.com/

How to refurbish a Canon P Rangefinder Camera (YouTube) I couldn't pick up much of a squeak there. Does it get any better after many advances? Each lubricant has specific use cases, depending on the camera components—Moebius or NYOIL for gears and shutter pivots, and lithium grease for...

Amazing work! Looking forward to video and updates

Adding to 4season's reply... Olympus/OM System OM-1 or OM-5: Natively supports both automated focus bracketing and in-camera stacking, avoids PC-side batch post-processing. Their SDK (OM Workspace and developer support) is well-documented for image retrieval and automation. Several sharp...

Tempting. You can purchase live remote Zoom tickets & the videos remain available for 2 weeks after the talk. There are under-25-year-old/student (45 Euro) and +65-year-old rates (65 Euro). everyone else it's 80 Euro

👏👏👏 Nice work!

Competition for Solver Wong!? 😉 Nice work 🛠️

@xkaes: I hear you. I found and downloaded the AE-S finder user guide from Butkus. The low light button on the AE-S is very cool, showing shutter speeds in the LED scale as long as 8 sec!

I saw the regular AE finder manual during my search but didn't download it. If I need to go inside the AE-S I'm going to send it to Andreas in Vienna 😉👨‍🔧

Fixed it. Following Gummybob's instructions, I cut a small piece of a wooden matchstick and electrical-taped it to the front body panel like this: The nub there is enough to trigger the aperture arm when the finder is mounted. I'll go back later and improve my taping but for now, I can...

Thanks very much, xkaes, for looking at this. Further searching led me to what I believe is the issue and a solution that I'll try. It's described here: https://thingummybob.com/2019/09/30/minolta-aes-viewfinder-repair/ (Start reading halfway down the page at the paragraph beginning with...

So my new flea market find -- a late-model Minolta XK in excellent condition -- has an issue I'm looking to fix. The AE-S finder's "aperture follower lever" is stuck to the right (as you face the camera, next to the red dot as in the photo below). When I remount the finder to the body, the...

As an owner of 2 F4's with currently 🤞working aperture controls, I would welcome such a guide. Thank you for all your tutorial contributions.

Holga makes a 120 pano camera with a glass lens, and a pinhole wide film camera, each under $100. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1609088-REG/holga_200120_120_pan_panoramic_6x12.html The handmade Kraken without lens is $310...