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Best film is the film that you have in your camera when a good scene appears before your eyes!! That being said... 1. Acros 100 or Delta 100 or Tmax 400 2. Any Kodak film 3. Fomapan 400... it's an odd film, but great.

I have the pen W, which is a rare camera (wideangle lens). A Pen D, very useful machine, still compact but with a fast lens. And twn Olympus 35SP which I don't like so much. Someday i'll get a mint Olympus 35RC, that's a great machine.

Zeiss glass? I think you mean "Tomioka glass with a Carl Zeiss decorator ring on top". Zeiss glass was made in Jena and in Oberkochen, you can find it fitted to Contax rangefinders, Rolleiflex cameras, Hasselblad lenses, etc. Sorry, i can't help it. Now, that being said, Tomioka was a very...

Thanks for this information dear and esteemed Antonio.

That's what OM users say! Ha, ha ha... The MX is well built. However, both Olympus (with the OM) and Pentax (with the MX) wanted to market their cameras as "professional" at some point. Yet they don't quite reach the level of features and ruggedness of the true "pro" cameras like the Nikon F...

You are correct, it's a weak point. However, if you like the OM2 or the OM system, just keep using it, just be gentle with the film wind. The OM2N might be more reliable there. As pointed out above the MX is a good alternative, it was a direct competition to the OM system and I personally love...

I love the F-1 New, however if the OP is looking for light weight or small size, stay away from the F-1 New, it is for bodybuilders. The MX is truly a portable, light machine and they're nice in every regard.

I have a "Zeiss" Planar 50/1.4 C/Y mount, made in japan, here, for service, and i'm not too impressed with the build quality, even less to see how the paint easily peels off in the similar way as the lower priced japanese lenses. There's nothing on this lens to justify any superior price over...

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I agree 100% with you in this quoted part. The FG is a great little machine in many respects however the build quality is not nice.

Why buy from (sanctioned) Russia when the cameras are Ukranian and available by Ukranian sellers on eBay? Not to mention sellers of other countries.

As an owner of many Nikkors and Canon FD lenses, i find this a baseless claim.

This looks like shutter bounce. Yes it can be repaired.

Today I compared my Salyut with my friend's mint Hassy 500C/M. I've always said that the 500C series have rather strong camera vibrations. While the Salyut-S (and Kiev 88) had pretty low vibrations (that's why I felt compelled to buy one). Well, both my friend and I did the comparison and...

I don't have sheets of flocking material because I usually service cameras that don't require additional flocking... As for painting diaphragms, so far the methods i've found for chemical blackening are not easy. Painting would produce paint dust, yes, this is a minor problem (dust is of no...

That would be the wisest move. Very good camera techs are real hard to find.

It is... It also has a massively better MTF curve and a more linear scale.

Try sourcing the CdS cells from a Spotmatic F or K1000.

Update. So my own, my very own Salyut-S ("Salyut-C") arrived, and i've spent the past days doing some checks on it. Of course I bought one where the seller assured all speeds worked fine, also it looked great cosmetically. Checked for correct focusing at film plane - correct, amazingly...