Recent content by Ko.Fe.

I won some useful goodies more than once. But I have stopped doing it for kind of big completions. Some went woke. Like prohibiting photos with double meaning for street photography. For someone who has watched dubbed version of Benny Hill it is Back in the USSR.

FSU cameras weren't cheap for us in USSR. And I never used expensive filmy cameras. Never had need, urge for it. Even my film Ms were well under 1K$. Nor my post was about how rare scratching film is. It was about how easy it is to fix instead of whining on ten pages.

It looks like M film series where promoted to Kardashian's category. Good thing what money can't buy brains and this is why better made Barnacks are still affordable to photogs.

I'm from one camera, one lens and even single roll of film generation. Getting to another country for what ether reason doesn't affect it. But I bring more than one ... roll. :)

What exactly "better phone" means? I had free light metering app on iPhone 4 which is very limited device and it worked so good, My Seconic in the the storage since then.

No. You have to test app readings with camera meter reading under different light scenarios.

Spend some time reading this thread. This is soo what LCAG and its wealthy only users have become. In my film days it was not uncommon to have FSU body scratching the film. All it required was light polishing. And about pro been prepared earlier opus. I used to love to go on the street...

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Dresden has huge history in film cameras making. I have Ihagee Ultrex from Dresden which was easy to convert to 120 film. But choices are many: http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Ihagee Look at the right top corner.

Barnacks are only affordable if you are willing to deal with compromised viewfinders. But they are cheaper for CLA. If you want show up with Leica, Barnacks are fine and cute.

Kodak Gold was great at great price where. Don't want to overpay for something online where color film prices have gone up so much, it doesn't make sense anymore.

Cheapest in bulk I could find at the time I needed it.

I‘m not to theories. Practically, I was using O.R.W.O slide film and liked it. Lab developed. Long gone. Much later I would walk to Walmart, get Kodak Gold and they will develop it. Then they stopped. And now film is gone from Walmart. Practically I don’t have much to choose from by nowadays.

Do you have R4M(A)? If not, be aware what its VF is easily blocked with larger lenses. Hood is going to ruin the view :) Also, those old and not so old UWA LTM lenses, even if they fit, are not always accurate on exposures via camera like Bessa R series primitive metering. And any Bessa R...

For three days, nine hours each, you could use as many cameras as you want. And all kinds of film. I would go this route for first day to figure out which works the best.