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I prefer the FE (or FE2) over the FM/FM2 series. For me the thing that i didn't like about the FM series was that the aperture value was on top, the speed at one side, the meter display at the other side. So i had to move my eye around. Ideally everything should be on the same side, as in most...

Holy moly!! I'm taking note!

Sorry, you're correct. Anyways... The best choice would be for the OP to try them first. Perhaps going to some camera store or photographers' club.

I wonder how's the climate where you live. My city is extremely humid (82% HR right now out there). CdS cells suffer with this, particularly the older ones. Put a camera in a very dry environment and it will be 'like new' forever.

This is most likely due to chromatic aberrations on the scanner lens. Which means the two color extremes (red and blue/violet) don't focus at the very same spot.

And i'd say it's not THAT extreme: You're clearly resolving the grain, however this is HP5. With a film like Acros 100, the grain would be much finer and there would be even more detaill, not just grain. Awesome. For the ones who want to see it for yourself, this is a 100% crop of McDiesel's...

So far every Nikon F i have had (5 in total) had a bad meter (bad cds cells), except for one which I could resurrect. On the other hand that one was a FTN model, while the others were Photomic TN models, which are older and thus i guess those CdS cells were not so resilient. Nikon F2...

Indeed you're right. The Canon 7, while much more ergonomic (viewfinder, parallax correction, easy loading) than a Leica IIF, isn't as well made. Canon did some cheapening down for the 7, compared to previous models.

They made a winderless variant of the OM1... Just wait until the wind mecanism gears eventually fail, then you'll have the winderless variant.

There are no electronics inside a Nikon F2....

Applause. This makes total sense. I would expect the Spotmatics, particularly the F, to have a brighter viewfinder than the SV which is very old. Or in any case, try the Pentax K2, it has the Spotmatic shape and a very good viewfinder. How can it be more of a beast? It feels better...

The problem is that we are talking a lot about resolution, but i think my main point, which is about "clarity", hasn't been taken into account. And this is something I've already wrote in the past here. To measure the fidelity of an optical system you have the MTF, the modulation transfer...

Thank you so much, i was feeling frustrated that few could see the obvious despite evidence I really felt like Mugatu...

As many have pointed out, the F is quieter sounding. I would say it feels tougher in the hand. But internally the F2 is a better machine. How much better? That's a good question. Both are very reliable. If you care for mirror lock up, get the F2. Otherwise the F with plain prism is great...

Esos dos centavos tienen muchísimo valor...

Wonderful

When the true 5000dpi-resolution dedicated film scanners appeared on the market, many claimed this was useless and that the already existing scanners (circa.2400dpi) were good enough, that there wasn't enough detail in the frame anyways. And then the results proved otherwise. In the very same...

This would mean your lenses are OK And thus you could recalibrate the Zorkis to read OK, you just need to know the procedure -- which involves shifting the position of the "keel". It isn't hard.

Now i will show an example of a DSLR scan with no oversharpening. Full image (downscaled). No scanning artifacts visible. 100% crop of the full-res image. You can check out how the grain (dye clouds) resolved -without being artificially pronounced on the downsampled image- and, again...

Acceptable? Sure, totally acceptable. My point is that, even at web-sizes, the increase in clarity from a really good scanner will be evident. And this is illustrated by the girl/model image i uploaded above. The oversharpening of the negative is readily evident.

Exactly.

Yes, I can see the difference, moreover if you click on the link and see the above mage at full size. And, as I hinted above, here due to the film being large format, the impact of grain will be minimal. But apply sharpening to a 35mm frame or 6x6 frame scanned with drum scan vs V850 and the...

Sorry, you misunderstood me. I'm not saying there's no difference when adjusting height. Of course there is! What i mean is that it will not enable you to go beyond the optical limitation of the machine (around 2700dpi). And what makes "little different" is to use a glass holder vs a non-glass...

No, you're just choosing to ignore the evidence. Check out this carefully done test of Epson V850 with film height adjustment, still no more than 2600dpi possible. There are also other tests of glass carrier vs no-glass carrier (all with height adjustment). The difference is minimal. Which is...

Thanks, you're supporting and demostrating my previous claim about the smearing of details by the Epson scanner -- it's completely evident on the link you're supplying. It demonstrates the clarity and the fidelity of the drum scan, which represents the real detail on the negative. So, thanks...

Maybe you already know this, but there are two typical problems with soviet lenses. a. - One is that the infinity stop position isn't correctly calibrated. I've recently bought a J8 1961, a Helios-103 from the 80s and a J-12 from the mid 60s. (all Contax mount). The first two had a wrong...

You have a very valid point. Of course if one is mostly posting pictures online or printing to small sizes, in theory it's pointless to be pursuing very high resolutions. The problem is, these Epson flatbeds also introduce chromatic artifacts and smearing of details. And, sadly, these add a...

Because, as I've said above and as you can find out in the internet if you do the research, your scanner doesn't have more than about 2700 real, true DPI. That's why your "6400dpi" scan won't look much better than "the 3200ppi" version. Now, run the very same frame (assuming it's a sharp frame)...

This is not true at all. Anyways, this topic has already been beaten to death.

You'll need to be very very careful (i.e. play a lot of time with height adjustment and/or glass holders) to get real 2700dpi out of the Epson V850, and even then, it would be "smeary" resolution, with little clarity. A 36mpx digital camera like the Sony A7R with a good macro lens can extract a...