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Thanks for this info, I bought HR-50 because on tests Pan-F wasn't really better than Delta 100 (which on the other hand it's an outstanding film). And I agree with the pricing, very reasonable in europe. I bought HR-50 and I also took the opportunity to buy Adox's Crafted for Henning Serger...

I was in Barcelona last week and I could easily find P30 and Orto.

Use the wood grip on the left and a 3D printed grip on the right.

There is hope!!

I'm a Pentax M-series fan, but there's no comparison on using a Pentax ME + 4 lenses (from wide to tele) vs a rangefinder + 4 lenses. The rangefinder kit is still lighter and smaller. Yes i've had the Pentax-M 40/2.8 pancake lens too, on a ME. I'd better bring a Minolta 7sII (40/1.7) instead...

We can also add: - Use a SLR if you need tilt/shift or shift lenses. Which are very relevant to me. Exactly. The best camera is the one you have with you, and a more compact/lighter camera increases the chance of being there with you at the right moment. And the size and weight difference...

Are they? I'm at europe right now, a P30 roll is like 11 EUR while Adox CHS II 100 is like 8 EUR. The Adox is a real 100 speed film and technically very good. The P30 is a very strange film which, as far as i've seen on tests and sample pics/etc (and i've following P30 for years), it's not...

I thought Solaris was decent film. I saw a comparison of Solaris vs the then current (2005?) offerings from Fuji, Kodak and Agfa, and it wasn't bad at all, it was competitive. On some specific aspects (i think latitude) it fared actually better than the competition, while on others (grain) it...

That "rangefinder" on the focusing screen needs to be looked at in a straigtly orthogonal way. From the looks of the picture, your eye (or camera) is not positioned exactly orthogonal to the focusing screen. This will give you a focus error.

On the other hand, a BIG reason the current film manufacturers run their machines at full capacity, is due to the younger people who find film fashionable. On the Amsterdam airport, the people who kindly accepted my film to be visually inspected, was between 20-33 years old.

LOL!!!

There wasn't such sign, it was just a joke. If there was such a sign, that would mean a PHOTRIO member is working there at the airport.

Reporting in right now from Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS). They had the horrible, dreadful CT scanner and the scanner had a big banner that read "I KILLED KODACHROME AND TECHNICAL PAN". So the machine is the work of the devil. I asked the airport personnel to please check my photographic films...

Great work!

It is common with this model. You just need to hunt for one without haze. Personally i prefer the New FD version. The other 50/1.4 lens that tends to suffer from haze is the Pentax-M and Pentax-A 50/1.4. Many, many lenses with haze.

Hi, I repair cameras and work on those models so I can contribute. This is my advice: 1. Don't increase curtain tension 2. Don't 3. Never increase curtain tension 4. Why would you want to increase curtain tension? Ok, so you want to diminish curtain tension. Great. Read on. If this is a...

It was about time... I stopped shooting film altogether in march or so. And stopped participating here. I just came here to see if everybody was struggling like me with ridiculous film prices.

I bought two Salyut-S cameras, both supposedly worked. The first one worked but after firing it for about 30-60 times in total, one of the shutter straps snapped and now the shutter is inoperative. The second one was bought "working" but it has severe shutter capping and the curtain seems to...

It was a mechanical issue and most likely inside the lens (shutter). It would be better if the owner tried with a different lens.

I thought the appeal was very very compact cameras!

Technical nerd here, let me take over. Indeed your properly scanned 16mm image looks better than the poorly scanned 35mm images I see from time to time (i.e. using Epson flatbed scanners). It looks good.

The way the wooden grip is offset (much forward than the image plane in the horizontal axis), will help restraining the vertical movement/shock of the mirror. As you said... Pentax knew what they were doing. However it would be great that they made the wooden grip a required accessory, not...

I like my Nikon FE so much that currently is my only Nikon. I've sold many of my nikons including a rather rare F2SB, F3, rare F3P, and other typical Nikons (FM2, FG, Nikomats). Only the FE stayed. I do have a small annoyance with the way the advance lever also powers the camera -- i've lost a...

Hi Drew, Years have passed and now I actually work (repair) those cameras. I discovered something very interesting... Some Pentax 6x7 cameras (that ended on my hands) had much gentler mirror "slap". Well, i've discovered that the mirror actuation force can actually be adjusted (!!). It is not...

Indeed, these Kentmere films will give Fomapan a very harsh competition, considering that in B&H photo the Kentmere 100 in 120 is announced at a significantly lower price than Fomapan 100.

That's why I always think 220 films should not be overlooked. With 220, the paper is only used at the leading and trailing end, reducing the problems that you get when every bit of film is touched by backing paper.

Welcome to the forum. The Arsenal factory in Kiev created the best cameras of the Soviet Union, like the Kiev-15, Kiev-60 and Salyut cameras. Lenses, too. I, as an engineer, admire the Ukrainian ingenuity, proven for example in the Antonov An-225. I bought some stuff from Ukraine some months...

To summarize my previous post, let's see this graphic: Light transmission of the 1960 Nikkor-S 58/1.4 (single-coated) versus the circa-2010 Nikkor AF-S 50/1.4G (nikon modern super integrated coating) More than 50 years of diffference... Yet the light transmission is the same at the 500nm...

You should not mix "single-coated" with "uncoated" lenses in the same basket. There are single-coated lenses that are very contrasty. Single-coating has the same effectivity than multi-coating at a specific wavelength (i.e. green color). Some older lenses (i.e. Nikkors) had all their...

Which lenses were you using? Focusing should be great, a Kiev with a service rangefinder has a great, very contrasty rangefinder. I agree in the rest, it is unfriendly. That's why I prefer my Contax IIa and IIIa bodies, the ergonomics are better in every way.