Recent content by Bill Burk

You mentioned you have a bulk roll unperforated. See if you can make acquaintance with Mark Osterman, he’s got a perforator and may be willing to run it through for you.

Forgot about the Kodak flashbulb units. Those are about twenty bucks and have a black plastic ASA connector.

There is an auction for one of those. Looks pretty decent. Probably worth it at this point.

This is the actual tip. Kind of pricey. You would need a Honeywell flash to get the wire. Those average nine bucks.

Look for Honeywell flash units on eBay. They are wired with a replaceable tip. The ASA adapter is green (Leica red and PC black). Almost all I see today are PC, the ratio used to be higher. They usually have a tiny pouch with spare tips. This looks like what you want. You will need to do...

Have you seen the Leica M finder? There is a depth of field indicator, it's a bar above and below the focus patch SLR are no better being open aperture for focusing, you often miss a distracting background. Sure there's a depth of field button on most lenses, but rarely use it. I think it...

Nice overview Nicholas

Better than being famous for a type of murder

Don’t throw out the M3 it’s a good camera. The framelines should be accurate. Infinity never moves, hence you should focus infinity and note framelines to compose the background, then focus close and compose foreground on framelines (keeping background where it was in the frame). Then go to the...

Look for Singh-Ray Galen Rowell ND grad filters. I see a couple up for twenty to thirty bucks which is a bargain

I’m heading the other direction and fleshing out a set of Series VI filters and adapters for various cameras. On a recent trip I jerry-rigged a 49mm filter thread to the Bessa II so I could share one set of filters with the OM-1

I tend to use SLR, OM or Pentax screw mount cameras.

Was PE’s criticism that it faded when projected for extended periods of time? I know my average projection time is five seconds. Or was the issue color impurities and inadequate correction? I can’t directly compare side by side Kodachrome and Velvia because I used them at different times, but...

Plenty of 127 Kodachrome - hence the baby Rollei

When you make green and red-sensitive film layers it’s still sensitive to blue